The End

by Nico

The End cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 11 November 1974
  • Label: Island
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 41:38
  • Community rating: 4.08/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by her former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, Nico's fourth solo album is an uncompromisingly bleak, hauntingly beautiful Gothic masterpiece. 'The End' relies on intensely droning harmonium and sparse synthesizer textures to create a wonderfully funereal, deeply ominous avant-folk atmosphere, matching her remarkably sombre, deeply poetic reflections on death.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, funereal, death, medieval, female-vocals, piano, theatrical, minimal, melodic, experimental, bleak, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. It Has Not Taken Long (4:06)
  2. Secret Side (4:05)
  3. You Forget To Answer (5:07)
  4. Innocent And Vain (3:47)
  5. Valley Of The Kings (3:54)
  6. We've Got The Gold (5:37)
  7. The End (9:30)
  8. Das Lied Der Deutschen (5:29)

Credits

  • Nico - primary artist, voice, harmonium, written-by, arranged by
  • Annagh Wood - backing vocals
  • Vicki Wood - backing vocals
  • John Cale - bass guitar, xylophone, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, organ, marimba, triangle, cabasa, glockenspiel, percussion, piano, electric piano, producer
  • Phil Manzanera - electric guitar
  • Porky - lacquer cut by
  • John Wood - recorded by
  • Vic Gamm - recorded by
  • Brian Eno - synthesizer, additional guest synthesizer
  • The Doors - written-by
  • Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben - lyrics by
  • Traditional - music by

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