Dionysus (album)

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Dionysus
Dead Can Dance - Dionysus.png
Studio album by
Dead Can Dance
Released2 November 2018
StudioKer Landelle Studios (Brittany, France)
Genre World music, worldbeat, neoclassical dark wave, pagan rock
Length36:06
Label PIAS Recordings
A55 (US)
Dead Can Dance chronology
In Concert
(2013)		Dionysus
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 78/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Dionysus is the ninth studio album by the British-Australian band Dead Can Dance, officially released on 2 November 2018 by PIAS Recordings, six years after the group's last album, Anastasis . [6] [7]

Contents

Artwork and title

The album cover's artwork features a skull mask made by the Huichol of Mexico. [8] Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine and religious ecstasy.

Critical reception

Dionysus was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 10 reviews. [1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 15 reviews. [9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dead Can Dance (Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard)

No.TitleLength
1."Act I – Sea Borne"6:44
2."Act I – Liberator of Minds"5:20
3."Act I – Dance of the Bacchantes"4:35
4."Act II – The Mountain"5:34
5."Act II – The Invocation"4:56
6."Act II – The Forest"5:04
7."Act II – Psychopomp"3:53
Total length:36:06

All physical versions are indexed as just two tracks respectively.

Personnel

Dead Can Dance

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Dionysus
Chart (2018)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [10] 55
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [11] 44
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [12] 25
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [13] 15
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [14] 40
French Albums (SNEP) [15] 53
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [16] 8
Italian Albums (FIMI) [17] 29
Polish Albums (ZPAV) [18] 7
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [19] 12
Scottish Albums (OCC) [20] 31
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [21] 33
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [22] 27
UK Albums (OCC) [23] 59
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [24] 6
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [25] 8
US Top Album Sales ( Billboard ) [26] 64
US Top Current Album Sales ( Billboard ) [27] 55

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