Dead Can Dance – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn the late 1980s, effusive music journalists were in the habit of eulogising spectacularly ornate or baroque pieces of arthouse music – particularly on the 4AD label – as cathedrals of sound. Understandably, the phrase rapidly fell into ridicule, yet no artists ever appeared quite so deserving of that appellation as Dead Can Dance.Having split around the millennium, Australian duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry this year released their first album in 16 years, Ana...

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