Asylum

by The Legendary Pink Dots

Asylum cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Play It Again Sam
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:15:12
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Patrick Q. Paganini, Poison Barbarella, The Silverman, Stret Majest, Adantacathar, Edward Ka-Spel

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Legendary Pink Dots crafted a profoundly unsettling, highly surreal masterpiece that blurs the lines between experimental darkwave, neo-psychedelia, and twisted cabaret music. Edward Ka-Spel鈥檚 cryptic, theatrical vocals narrate nightmarish, deeply melancholic tales of madness over incredibly eclectic arrangements of vintage synthesizers and erratic percussion. 'Asylum' remains a dark, manic, and brilliantly eccentric cult classic of the 80s avant-garde.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, experimental, electronic, male vocalist, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Echo Police (4:48)
  2. Gorgon Zola's Baby (2:29)
  3. Fifteen Flies in the Marmalade (2:47)
  4. Femme Mirage (3:35)
  5. The Hill (4:22)
  6. Demonism (2:35)
  7. Prisoner (5:11)
  8. So Gallantly Screaming (11:13)
  9. I'm the Way, The Truth, The Light (8:01)
  10. Agape (3:49)
  11. Golden Dawn (5:49)
  12. The Last Straw (4:53)
  13. A Message from Our Sponsor (4:06)
  14. Go Ask Alice (3:25)
  15. This Could Be the End (8:03)

Credits

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