''The Light Is Leaving Us All'' is an album by British experimental music group

Current 93 Current 93 are an English experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet, who has been Current 93's only constant member. Background Tibet has been the only const ...

. It was released on 13 October 2018 through The Spheres record label and House of Mythology. The album was performed in its entirety on 13 October 2018 in a rare performance at O₂ Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, backed by a series of slow-moving films by Davide Pepe in the style of the album's artwork.

Critical reception

''The Light Is Leaving Us All'' has received generally positive reviews from critics. Writing for ''

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'', Anthony D'Amico praised the album, stating it "effortlessly transcends time and space and dissolves reality to open a fleeting portal into an alternate world swirling with unknowable mystery, unearthly beauty, and ineffable sadness. At its best, this album feels like a motley and wild-eyed caravan of minstrels, actors, and puppeteers unexpectedly appeared in a medieval town to share a vividly haunting, hallucinatory, and deeply eschatological fairy tale that will be the last thing that any of the villagers ever hear." Writing for ''

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'', Calum Marsh called it "an arduous but rewarding album, the feeling of listening to a preacher behind the pulpit, or a doomsayer on the soapbox."

Track listing

Notes *"The Policeman Is Dead" contains a sample of "A Blacksmith Courted Me" by Phoebe Smith, courtesy of Sweet David Suff and Topic Records.

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. Musicians *

David Tibet David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting; 5 March 1960) is a British poet and artist who founded the music group Current 93, of which he is the only full-time member. He was given the name "Tibet" by Genesis P-Orridge, and in January 2005 he a ...

– vocals *

Andrew Liles Andrew Liles (born 11 March 1969) is a British sound artist and multi-instrumentalist. He has a vast output of recordings that he has released since the mid-1980s, covering a variety of styles as experimental music, dark ambient music, progr ...

– electric guitar, electronics * Alasdair Roberts – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drone hurdy gurdy, guzheng * Reinier Van Houdt – Fender Rhodes electric piano, piano, theremin, synthesizer, bass * Michael J. York – bagpipes, whistle, duduk, bells * Aloma Ruiz Boada – violin * Rita Knuistingh Neven – silent piano, sleep keys, birdlight *

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– doppelgänger electric guitar , doppelgänger acoustic guitar *

Ossian Brown Ossian Brown (born 3 April 1969, London, England) is an English musician and artist, most notable for being a member of the groups Coil and Cyclobe. He joined Coil in 1999 and remained with them until the band’s cessation following the deat ...

– hurdy gurdy *

Thomas Ligotti Thomas Ligotti (born July 9, 1953) is an American horror writer. His writings are rooted in several literary genres – most prominently weird fiction – and have been described by critics as works of ''philosophical'' horror, often formed into ...

– ghost, voice Technical personnel * David Tibet – production, mixing, cover design, front cover painted photograph ''The Light Is Leaving Us All'', back cover painted photograph ''The Light Is Leaving Them All'', front cover of insert ''Bella Arises From The Wych Elm'', photograph of Ben Chasny * Andrew Liles – production, mixing, engineering * The Bricoleur – vinyl mastering * Stephen Thrower – photograph of Ossian Brown * Reinier Van Houdt – photograph of Rita Knuistingh Neven * David Ligotti – photograph of Thomas Ligotti * Giulio Di Mauro – tour manager, centerfold photograph of Current 93 * Ania Goszczyńska – cover design, layout * Patrick Wells – screenprinting * Paschalis Zervas – typesetting * Jake Gill – management * Timothy Mark Lewis – management * Davide Pepe – films

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Light Is Leaving Us All, The 2018 albums Current 93 albums