Plutonium Blonde" Recorded at Studio Lent and Studio Klaverland, 2007-2008.
Thanks to Lisette and Jon for maintaining our cyber connections. Thanks also to Panorama for the original cover image, and to Astrid and Anna for customizing it. Thanks to Lucas for your enduring support with this project. The Legendary Pink Dots have created their most commercially appealing album to date with Plutonium Blonde, the follow up to 2006's Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves. Frontman Edward Ka-Spel and his crew capture the listener's imagination with lush and haunting songs. Edward Ka-Spel, "The Painted River Of Regrets" The Legendary Pink Dots. Legacy" Your Children Placate You from Prematu.
Faux spookiness of the Count Floyd/Count Chocula variety is everywhere; just turn on MTV2, or head to your local counterculture shlock shop for a dose of unintentionally hilarious "goth" aesthetics. But for 25 years, the London-via-Amsterdam band Legendary Pink Dots have proffered a rarer, truer kind of darkness.
Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves--which is approximately the band's 28th, or 46th release, depending on whether you count live albums and EPs--is subtly, eclectically and actually disturbing. On "No Matter What You Do" unfussy singer Edward Ka-Spel chews on religion's snagging edges--"Jesus loves the little children, even when they torch the cat"--over spacey Anglo-dub and storms of feedback. "Since 1980, LPD have created some of the most enigmatic and challenging compositions in modern music. The uniqueness of their work is due in large part to its omnivorous ability to consume and transform a variety of styles into a new, cohesive entity.
Alchemical Playschool" Based on the double CD of field recordings "Indian Soundscapes" released in 2004 by Soleilmoon.
CD limited to 400 copies packaged in a cloth bag inside a soap stone box with trident symbol eteched into the stone 2x10" limited to 250 copies, presented in a deluxe silkscreened gatefold folder made of recycled sugarcane fiber, with a full-color 9.5 x 20 inch (24 x 51 cm) poster, and each record is stored in its own hand-made marigold flower petal-infused, plastic lined sleeve. "Alchemical Playschool" is easily one of the most unusual Legendary Pink Dots albums ever released. Based on the LP and double CD "Indian Soundscapes" (Soleilmoon SOL 114/SOL 114 CD), these recordings are best enjoyed with a cold glass of Bhang Ki Thandai, following which the operation of heavy equipment or motor vehicles is strongly discouraged. East Indian soundscapes meet noisy experimentalism, but the extravagant packaging ensures only diehard fans will hear this. A Dream is a Dream is a Dream" Crushed Mementos" Singe Während Du Bist"
The Whispering Wall" Poppy Variations" The Poppy Variations is the ill-natured twin of The Whispering Wall -- the qlippothic, mirror-universe reflection, residing in the shadowy nightside of Eden.
Where Whispering is right in line with LPD's current manifestation and evolution, Poppy is entirely regressive and even transgressive. Where Whispering is often joyful and musically rich, Poppy is spare, prickly and pessimistic. Rather than a series of inviting, accessible compositions, LPD creates a series of perverse spectral enigmas, even utilizing samples and reworkings of their older material, in some attempt at painstaking self-reflection and exegesis. Edward Ka-Spel's lyrics aren't as bemused and detached as usual here, instead, on many of the tracks, he sounds downright miserable, displaying the kind of perplexed mental fragmentation familiar from early Dots material like Asylum. Ed. of 450 copies in a full color sleeve & 2 - 180 gram audiophile LP's & bonus 4th side of material. Various Artists, "The Eye Volume 834" A Guide To... Vol. 2: Psychedelic Clas. I Did Not Inhale" All the King's Men" All the King's Horses"