A live recording from 1993 and mostly featuring previously unrecorded material. Both lead performers are simply in excelsis, their vocal abilities hardly diminished by the rigors of the road - if anything, they sound even more inspired as a result
With everything performed solely by Perry and Gerrard, the duo again create a series of often astounding numbers that sound like they should be millennia old, mixing and matching styles to create new fusions.
Heralded by an astounding first track, "The Host of Seraphim" (later used in movies but on its own it's so jaw-droppingly good that almost the only reaction is sheer awe), this is an album where Perry and Gerrard continued to experiment and refine their art.
With its two sides split between Perry and Gerrard 's vocal efforts, this album serves as both a display for the ever more ambitious band and a chance for the two to individually demonstrate their awesome talents.
With this amazing album, DCD fully took the plunge into the heady mix of musical traditions that wold come to define its career. The straightforward goth affectations are exchanged for a sonic palette and range of imagination.
Bearing much more resembalance to the similiaity gripping, dark early work of bands like Cocteau Twins and The Cure than to the later fusions of music that would come too characterize the duo's sound, the debut is a striking, dour landmark in early-80's atmospherics.
