A Perfect Mystery (2000)
OnA Perfect Mystery urges the listener to turn it up loud, so quietly insidious is its start, with a buzzing like an electric discharge.
Tag: Edward Ka-Spel
Three 1990s Pink Dots Compilations
OnEdward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
Hallway of the Gods
OnA review of ‘Hallway of the Gods’, the most accessible Legendary Pink Dots album of the 1990s. A rare achievement with some real bangers!
Chemical Playschool 8 & 9 (1995)
OnChemical Playschool 8 & 9 is the sort of expansive odyssey we’ve come to expect from these Chemical Playschool releases.
‘From Here You’ll Watch the World Go By,’ (1995) an Album Released Amidst Tumult
On1995 had seen the Legendary Pink Dots quit their record company, re-join their record company and ultimately start their own record company.
“Asylum Relapse” by Patrick Q. Wright Is a Sympathetic Sounding Board Resonating Feelings of Isolation
OnWhile “Asylum Relapse” isn’t part of the Legendary Pink Dots Project, Patrick Wright has been instrumental to some of their greatest albums.
‘Nine Lives to Wonder’ (1994) Is an Opium Dream of an Album
OnNine Lives to Wonder is an opium dream of an album. A shadow cast upon the wall. A message in a bottle hanging suspended in mid-air.
‘Malachai (Shadow Weaver, Part 2)’ Transmogrifies Like Wily Protoplasm Between Listenings
On1993’s Malachai (Shadow Weaver, Part 2) shows the Legendary Pink Dots at their ‘minimalist-maximalist’ best, wriggling away under the microscope.
The Maria Dimension
OnEdward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…
The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse
OnEdward Ka-Spel’s brilliance with The Legendary Pink Dots is to introduce us to isolated characters and then immerse us in their world-view through expansive and mysterious soundscapes. He begins with the most restricted, infinitesimal point of consciousness and then slowly expands it…