The Golden Communion

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The Golden Communion
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Studio album by
Released4 September 2015
RecordedAerial Studios; Golliwog Farm, Wales; North Tower; Rockfield Studios, 2005-2015
Genre Industrial, experimental music, psychedelic rock, progressive rock
Length116:54
Label Editions Mego
EMEGO 207
Producer Thighpaulsandra
Thighpaulsandra chronology
The Clisto E.P.
(2007)
The Golden Communion
(2015)

The Golden Communion is the sixth album by Thighpaulsandra, released on 4 September 2015. It marks Thighpaulsandra's return to solo work after nearly a decade of touring with Spiritualized, Elizabeth Fraser and Wire. The album pulls from over ten years of recording sessions; as such, The Golden Communion boasts collaborations not only with Thighpaulsandra regulars Martin Schellard and Siôn Orgon, but also with John Balance and Peter Christopherson, the late founders of industrial band Coil. Overall, the music presented contains threads of psychedelic and progressive rock, featuring orchestrations and extended pop music song structures not heard before on a Thighpaulsandra album.

Contents

The Golden Communion was released physically in 2CD and 3LP formats, [1] as well as digitally in 24-bit FLAC.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Thighpaulsandra, unless otherwise noted.

Disc one
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Salute" 8:44
2."Did He Fall?"Thighpaulsandra, John Balance 6:31
3."The Foot Garden" 9:55
4."A Devil in Every Hedgerow" 4:38
5."The Golden Communion" 25:56
Total length:55:41
Disc two
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Misery" 10:58
2."Valerie" 8:16
3."The Sinking Stone" 11:08
4."On the Register" 4:05
5."The More I Know Men, the Better I Like Dogs"Thighpaulsandra, Balance, Martin Schellard, Siôn Orgon 26:48
Total length:61:13

Personnel

References

  1. Reid, Mike (24 August 2015). "Former Coil member Thighpaulsandra announces The Golden Communion on Editions Mego". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 7 August 2025.