The Light Is Leaving Us All

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The Light Is Leaving Us All
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Studio album by
Current 93
Released13 October 2018
Length46:05
Label
  • The Spheres
  • House of Mythology
Producer
Current 93 chronology
I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel
(2014)		The Light Is Leaving Us All
(2018)		 If a City is set upon a Hill
(2022)
Singles from The Light Is Leaving Us All
  1. "Bright Dead Star"
    Released: 23 August 2018

The Light Is Leaving Us All is an album by British experimental music group Current 93. [1] It was released on 13 October 2018 through The Spheres record label and House of Mythology. The album was performed in its entirety on 13 October 2018 in a rare performance at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, backed by a series of slow-moving films by Davide Pepe in the style of the album's artwork. [2] [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 7.2/10 [4]

The Light Is Leaving Us All has received generally positive reviews from critics. Writing for Brainwashed , Anthony D'Amico praised the album, stating it "effortlessly transcends time and space and dissolves reality to open a fleeting portal into an alternate world swirling with unknowable mystery, unearthly beauty, and ineffable sadness. At its best, this album feels like a motley and wild-eyed caravan of minstrels, actors, and puppeteers unexpectedly appeared in a medieval town to share a vividly haunting, hallucinatory, and deeply eschatological fairy tale that will be the last thing that any of the villagers ever hear." [5] Writing for Pitchfork , Calum Marsh called it "an arduous but rewarding album, the feeling of listening to a preacher behind the pulpit, or a doomsayer on the soapbox." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Current 93 [6]

No.TitleLength
1."The Birds Are Sweetly Singing"3:45
2."The Policeman Is Dead"5:28
3."Bright Dead Star"4:22
4."30 Red Houses"3:19
5."A Thousand Witches"5:45
6."Your Future Cartoon"2:49
7."The Postman Is Singing"5:59
8."The Bench and the Fetch"4:01
9."The Kettle's On"3:49
10."Fair Weather"4:49
11."The Milkmaid Sings"1:59
Total length:46:05

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Reid, Mike (24 August 2018). "Current 93 indirectly comment on your exorbitant-ass electric bill, announce new album The Light Is Leaving Us All". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Current 93 released a new LP, played the UK w/ Nurse With Wound, doing stuff in California in 2019". BrooklynVegan. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  3. ↑ Armstrong, Aimee (19 October 2018). "Current 93 essay their strain of disquiet at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire". Crack Magazine. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  4. 1 2 Marsh, Calum (18 October 2018). "Current 93: The Light Is Leaving Us All Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  5. ↑ D'Amico, Anthony (28 October 2018). "Current 93, "The Light Is Leaving Us All"". Brainwashed. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Light Is Leaving Us All / Current 93". TIDAL. 13 October 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  7. ↑ "Current 93's 'The Policeman Is Dead' sample of Phoebe Smith's 'A Blacksmith Courted Me'". WhoSampled. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
  8. ↑ The Light Is Leaving Us All (Liner notes). Current 93. The Spheres. 2018. twentytwo.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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