Faces, Forms and Illusions

by Delerium

Faces, Forms and Illusions cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Dossier
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 1:12:48
  • Community rating: 3.26/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut release from the Front Line Assembly side project explores a noticeably more atmospheric and cinematic soundscape than their primary EBM outlet. Bill Leeb and Michael Balch utilized dense synthesizers and cryptic sampling to craft a mysterious, cyberpunk-infused dark ambient experience. It laid the foundation for the project's later evolution into ethereal and worldbeat territories.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, protest, repetitive, cyberpunk

Tracklist

  1. Monuments of Deceit (4:18)
  2. Mecca (4:23)
  3. Inside The Chamber (6:21)
  4. Sword of Islam (4:14)
  5. New Dawn (4:54)
  6. Certain Trust (5:11)
  7. Hidden Mask (5:16)
  8. Strangeways (5:18)
  9. Subvert (3:48)
  10. Wired Archives (6:57)
  11. Seige of Atrocity (7:45)
  12. Black Ice (3:37)
  13. Desert (10:39)

Credits

  • Delerium - primary artist
  • SST - lacquer cut by
  • C.A. - painting [back painting]
  • Rhys Fulber - programmed by [programming]

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