The Light Is Leaving Us All

by Current 93

The Light Is Leaving Us All cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 13 October 2018
  • Label: The Spheres
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 46:10
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 12 ratings

Artists on this release: Andrew Liles, David Tibet, Ossian Brown, drone, Aloma Ruiz Boada, Michael J. York, painting

Album Notes & Community Reviews

David Tibet's legendary, ever-shifting avant-folk project delivered one of its strongest and most cohesive statements of the 21st century. The deeply ominous record is heavily driven by repetitive, trance-like acoustic guitar picking, droning violins, and his unmistakable, wildly apocalyptic spoken-word poetry regarding birds and encroaching darkness. It serves as a profoundly mesmerizing, terrifyingly occult masterclass in modern neofolk.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, christian, conceptual, atmospheric, male-vocals, experimental, piano, minimal, folk, vocal, storytelling, acoustic, literary

Tracklist

  1. The Birds Are Sweetly Singing (3:45)
  2. The Policeman Is Dead (5:28)
  3. Bright Dead Star (4:22)
  4. 30 Red Houses (3:19)
  5. A Thousand Witches (5:45)
  6. Your Future Cartoon (2:49)
  7. The Postman Is Singing (5:59)
  8. The Bench and the Fetch (4:01)
  9. The Kettle's On (3:49)
  10. Fair Weather (4:49)
  11. The Milkmaid Sings (1:59)

Credits

  • Current 93 - primary artist
  • Alasdair Roberts - acoustic guitar [acoustic guitars], electric guitar [electric guitars], drone [drone hurdy-gurdy], hurdy gurdy [drone hurdy-gurdy], guzheng, vocals
  • Michael J. York - bagpipes, whistle [whistles], duduk, bells
  • Ben Chasny - electric guitar [doppelg盲nger], acoustic guitar [doppelg盲nger]
  • Ossian Brown - hurdy gurdy
  • Patrick Wells - screen printing [screenprinting]
  • Paschalis Zervas - typography [typesetting]
  • Aloma Ruiz Boada - violin

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