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The Tapes Your Mother Laid Out For You: Dead Can Dance

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Dead Can Dance 1984 Self Titled Album Cover Dead Can Dance is an avant-garde musical group formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1981. The band had two vocalists and primary contributors, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. Together they combined a hodgepodge of musical styles and instruments to create a truly novel listening experience. Listening to Dead Can Dance is honestly a unique experience and the band's self-titled debut is no exception. Some reviewers have called it goth rock. Others post-punk. Even more bizarre terms like ethnic fusion, ethereal wave and dream pop have been used to describe it. The first song, "The Fatal Impact," carries the guise of a ...