The Tower

by The Legendary Pink Dots

The Tower cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: In Phaze
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:47
  • Community rating: 3.38/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Pat Bermingham

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Expanding their lo-fi, cassette-culture roots into a more expansive, cinematic direction, Edward Ka-Spel's collective crafted a deeply unsettling dystopian concept album. The soundscape heavily utilizes cheap synthesizers, rudimentary drum machines, and bizarre tape effects to frame Ka-Spel's theatrical, apocalyptic poetry. It stands as a masterwork of dark, surrealistic neo-psychedelia within the European underground.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, political, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Black Zone (3:06)
  2. Break Day (3:35)
  3. Tower One (5:05)
  4. Vigil-Anti (4:24)
  5. A Lust For Powder (3:17)
  6. Poppy Day (3:57)
  7. Tower Two (3:57)
  8. Astrid (3:42)
  9. Rope And Glory (0:51)
  10. Tower Three (4:06)
  11. Tower Four (4:44)
  12. Tower Five (2:03)

Credits

  • The Legendary Pink Dots - primary artist
  • Armin Blisss - guest
  • Che Banana - performer [soundtrack by]
  • Patrick Q. Paganini - performer [soundtrack by]
  • Phil Harmonix - performer [soundtrack by]
  • Roland Callaway - performer [soundtrack by]
  • Stret Majest - performer [soundtrack by]
  • Sybil Strange-Cargo - performer [soundtrack by]

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