The Rule of Thirds

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The Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released2008
RecordedMarch 20–October 31, 2007
Studio
  • Big Sound Studios
  • The Full Bench
Genre Neofolk
Length48:56
Label Soleilmoon
Producer Dave Lokan
Death In June chronology
Free Tibet
(2006)
The Rule of Thirds
(2008)
Peaceful Snow/Lounge Corps
(2010)
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The Rule of Thirds is an album by Death In June released in 2008 as CD and LP (2x10").
This is the first actual studio release since the 2001 album All Pigs Must Die . The stripped-down neofolk sound of the album has been likened to Rose Clouds of Holocaust, Brown Book and But, What Ends When the Symbols Shatter?.[ by whom? ]

Contents

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Douglas P.

  1. "The Glass Coffin" - 5:55
  2. "Forever Loves Decay" - 4:04
  3. "Jesus, Junk and the Jurisdiction" - 4:09
  4. "Idolatry" - 3:35
  5. "Good Mourning Sun" - 3:58
  6. "The Perfume of Traitors" - 3:45
  7. "Last Europa Kiss" - 2:09
  8. "The Rule of Thirds" - 4:13
  9. "Truly Be" - 2:45
  10. "Their Deception" - 3:08
  11. "My Rhine Atrocity" - 3:35
  12. "Takeyya" - 3:32
  13. "Let Go" - 4:10

Personnel

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