Current 93 - Crush, Kill, Destroy?

Nope, I was getting it mixed up with some of those new live discs.

Well, Thunder Perfect Mind is pretty classic and it is in print in a new edition with extra disc on Jnana.

If you can't find them there is also the recent compilation "Judas as a Black Moth" 2cd, albeit there is nothing there from the esoteric noise albums from their first decade, it's a good introduction to second decade apocalictic gnostic folk c93.

for a detailed discography: www.brainwashed.com/c93

I'll agree with other though that his voice is a major sticking point.

great voice, great band

I must briefly use this thread to rant about the dreaded "World Serpent disc rot" which has ruined my copy of "Live At Bar Maldoror", at least the first two tracks. YOU FUCKERS! YOUR VINYL SUCKED AND SO DID YOUR CDs! HOW DARE YOU RUIN GOOD MUSIC! sigh...

OK, I feel better now. Anyway, buyer beware for older WS releases.

http://www.myspace.com/wspsp

Haven't heard the new album, honestly having seven different versions of the same trad song doesn't appeal to me. Maybe they're short.

www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT

Black Ships is not your "play it in the car" album. As for the person who got bad vibes from what s/he'd heard from Dogs Blood Rising, it's *supposed* to give bad vibes. It's Tibet in his "evil" period, and probably the best album from that one.

Personally, I think the B-side of Looney Runes, Lucifer Over London, and the Inmost Light series are quite excellent.

Now, destroy... Crooked Crosses for the Nodding God is a tad weak. Not bad, but not half the caliber of, say, All the Pretty Little Horses, or Nature Unveiled.

Oh, and Hitler as Kalki is untouchable.

And the title track is not a Nazi anthem! It's an *anti*-Hitler song! Tibet's father fought in WWII, for heaven's sake! Why do people not get that?

absolutely. probably second only to as the world disappears among their live albums.

I meandered into Current 93 records via NWW, and I've reached the point where I certainly enjoy Current 93 more, although Stapleton still out-weirds Tibet, which is saying something.

I expect that the release of "Stapletone" will swing me in the other direction. Some time in 2055.

yeah! me too, but alot of other people seemed to hate it.

I was just looking at this yesterday, thinking I should read it again.

www.atpfestival.com

How handy! I'll pick it up while I'm over there.

Just got the Inmost Light trilogy reissue and it's fantastic. I knew some of the pieces from the "Calling for Vanished Faces" comp, but it's a stunning listen from start to end. This is some of the darkest material of their folk era. The background drones and ghostly chants are really unsettling.

The 1st and 3rd parts are 20 minute long but each one gets its own CD to preserve the listening order. Me lieks this.

I need to get that. But the new reissue of Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre is first in the queue for me. Sometimes I think it's the essential C93 album.

Yes, that one is by far my fave. Great great album.

Inmost Light 1 and 3 always left me pretty indifferent. Maybe I should give them a new spin.

try the first one when you're in a meditative mood. I really really like that one a lot.

I'm pretty sure when I get the Inmost Light reissue I'll seldom listen to chapters 1 and 3. I'm just excited to have All The Pretty... possibly sounding even better than it did. The remaster of Thunder Perfect Mind had luscious sound, so I expect goodness.

Black Ships one of my favourites

Fucking birdsounds on 'Bright Dead Star' made me think that one of our chicks had escaped from the coop and was sitting outside underneath my window.

http://thequietus.com/articles/25479-current-93-review-biography

A pretty solid list, but the inclusion of Black Ships Heat The Dancefloor is wtf.

yeah I def would have put In Menstrual Night at that #10 spot

Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow would've been my pick, but yeah IMN is great too.

split with OM was good stuff

You don’t put in black ships heat the dancefloor at the expense of honeysuckle aions wtf. Also the sic six singles EPs collection is obligatory

occasionally see David Tibet around town. one time he was carrying one of those massive stripey laundry bags. presumably been to get his gnostic robes washed

there's tons of great stuff all over his discography but the new album is a masterpiece.

It’s a solid record and I really like it (definitely better than the Zu collab) but I don’t get the hyperbole - yet?

I don't know, it just clicked suddenly for me

Yeah. I think the "hyperbole" comes from being very pleasantly surprised by such a return to form. Idk that's what it is for me.

it's a return to top form, is the thing

he has a big beard now and that is the secret

Was the consensus that he fell off? I feel it’s a pretty logical continuation from Aleph-Baalstorm-IATLOATFTF, all of which are excellent.

I don’t see that he fell off at all. Honeysuckle is a great album than black ships, f.e.

personally speaking, it's more that I'm over Andrew Liles and his predictable production style, and this new one sounds more like the work Stapleton used to do. I like the blown-out excess of the "rock" trilogy (Aleph, Baalstorm, whatever the other one was) and I def dig Honeysuckle (much more of a chamber music Soft Black Stars sound w/minimal weirdness). But I did not dig The Moons At Your Door at all and it is now in my sell pile.

What did people think of Myrninerest?

have not heard

His '00s output left me cold, while the new one seems like it's picking up where the Inmost Light cycle left off

yeah this is great and a return to form, I have to say I didn't think he had it in him to produce another masterpiece à la Of Ruine or Pretty Little Horses but this one is def doing it for me.

Chiming in on the praises for The Light Is Leaving...

Masterpiece a la Of Ruine? Not sure I'm quite ready to take the name of the Holy Tibet-Stapleton-Cashmore Trinity in vain. But it is durn spanking master-ly. Closest comparison, soundwise, has got to be Baalstorm Sing Omega. Except a lot tighter. Pastoral drone meets plinkety folk plucking, subdued storm alert percolating beneath the surface. For the first time Liles seems to have got the Stapletonisms a little more on point. eg the Ligotti cameos at the alpha and omega of the album imbued with quietly glowing shades of darkened light. On Baalstorm, the children's voices take away from the whole, whereas in almost all other (Stapleton-addled) Current the voices suggest wonderfully subtle shades of unsettling "innocence". (The last such, and much missed, shade was the opening of Aleph... "Almost in the beginning was the murderer".)

My biggest criticism of The Light Is Leaving... Tibet's vocals on The Postman Is Singing. Nothing wrong with them, but the loud 'n honking sound would I think have been better enlivened by a full-on Tibet-in-unhinged-glory string of ranting-cum-panting. But perhaps that would have undercut the lyrics in play, so less criticism more a statement of personal preference.

Of recent un-Current Current,

I really like Zu93, which I feel is even more Current-like than a lot of the more recent Current. Darkly gorgeous cello swells feeding Tibet's starkly mirrored musings. Hypnopazuzu is like a return to the most dramatic sweeps of Island, tipping hats also at the Tibet mix of DIJ's "Rule Again". And Myrninerest, simply brilliant. The Blackshaw-backed full-length dedicated to Jhonn is a delicate Balance of sweet acoustic lilt and unutterably raw heart-rending psycho Babel. And the soundtrack to the Jarman film, with Cashmore on piano(!) (Journey To Avebury) is a haze and sweetly affecting ambiance par excellence.

All to say that even when Tibet is not Current it seems there is always something over which the one-time obsessive may obsess anew.

But yeah, the new one is seriously rocking the bum bum.

great post!

I'm thoroughly enjoying The Stars On Their Horsies. Three worthwhile Current 93 albums in one year, what a time to be alive.

Meanwhile, there's also a new Death In June record (first in 5 years apparently), and so far it's complete crap. Incredible how their careers have diverged, really.

unsettling new ambient piece : https://www.davidtibet.com/products/invocations-of-almost-cd

A pox upon all habitues of this thread for not bumping it when C93 announced two Brooklyn shows! I told you I was hopeless at knowing about things! Shows are April 2020 and were announced at the end of July. Both sold out but they have added a third night which just went on sale and someone DID clue me in about that one and I managed to get tickets. If I missed this opportunity I would have fucking died. Instead I am OverMoon at prospect of finally seeing C93.

Warsaw Brooklyn 4/25 is the show that just went up

nice! I has no idea abt those shows, sorry

has had

Nice! The anxiety of missing C93 is palpable, trust me. Glad you get to go!

sleeve: treat yourself! wkiw

lol so not gonna happen but <3

(also, I think it's sold out now!)

New album in March 2022 : https://www.davidtibet.com/blogs/news/c93-if-a-city-is-set-upon-a-hill

Wasn't there supposed to be a Thomas Ligotti collabo album as well sometime this year? Pushed back?

His release statements are almost as good as the albums

Yayyyy something to look forward to

I finally read England’s Hidden Reverse a few months ago so I am extra psyched

Praying that the Brooklyn show (postponed to Halloween 2022) is able to happen

Xp yeah he keeps getting better and funnier on the PR/comm front. Reads like an apocalyptic Hipster Runoff at this point. Psyched.

through my endless readings within the Akkadian Omen series šumma ālu ina mēlê šakin (“If A City Is Set Upon A Height”), my endless obsession with the story of Cain Killing Abel (Genesis IV: 8), and my endless rewatching of the same ten supernatural films.

I feel like we could probably guess half of these but come on david michael give us yr list

otm

lol yes

I'd buy some of the photographs or paintings if they weren't so expensive :(

oh and the book downloads are free (including a 561 page lyrics book) : https://www.davidtibet.com/collections/books

and? anyone get the album yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4RzoH32Lso

Not bad. Has David T. taken singing classes?

the CD is on its way because I thought it wasn't going to be on bandcamp - it's not on current931.bandcamp.com ,
but now I find it at current93hom.bandcamp.com - anyway, a physical copy doesn't hurt :-)

if together we fall into forever

great revive

i ate the graveyard whole

Just saw them in Oslo. Absolutely glorious. Magnificent setlist, picked from their whole career. Tibet is such a sweet guy at this point. Finished off with an anecdote on being a little kid watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, before they did a beautiful Hushabye Mountain (which they did the last time I saw them as well. Alasdair Roberts has been in the band for a good while now.

Have been immersed in the "The Long Shadows Fall" boxset for the past few weeks - really the greatest thing they've done in years... endless burrowing/floating obsessive atmospheres, truly haunting... for a long time I felt that Liles was a poor substitute for Stapleton but he's really doing stellar work on the recent C93 things. The latest one "Sketches of My Nightmares and Dreams Occurring" just arrived yesterday, waiting until the weekend to dive in.