Current 93 - Crush, Kill, Destroy?

All the Pretty Little Horses is my favorite, but Of Ruine and TPM are tied for second. I do agree that Black Ships is really good and underrated.

Xpost Halo is a very very good live album from the period just before Black Ships.

Honeysuckle Aeons is my favorite of the newer ones.

Otm about the EPs. The singles comp could vie for beat C93 purchase.

Beat = best

The new album with Zu is a bit of a letdown, as a fan of both.

Haven’t heard that yet

I liked it well enough, but it wasn’t strong as either band’s previous release, nor was there enough wild sax in there.

Steven and I in the Field of Stars and Dormition and Dominion are my very favourites of Of Ruine.

Definitely going to try and see them in London this October. We saw Tibet as Hypnopazuzu, but feel C93 proper will be a treat.

only listened to the Zu93 album once so far, but really enjoyed it

I really really really want to see them live at some damn point.

Saw them in stockholm in april. Amazing.

Liking this new single (although it'll surely sound better on a cold winter evening)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjs0TRG9p68&frags=pl%2Cwn

the new album gets off to a terrifyingly good start

Playing in London right about now.

yeah we chickened out when we saw the ticket prices. celebrating crowleymas at home instead, with some cantillon

this album is absolutely incredible

Yeah, was gonna post. Back to the Ruine medievo-folk sound. Sounds amazing

we are debating if it's the best one after ruine, it might be. nb we have heard less than half of them. but still

Sounds about right

No credits or other information are given on the sleeve aside from artist and title on spine.

oh for fuck's sake

wait y'all are talking about "The Light Is Leaving Us All"? listening now.

yeah we are. hope you're enjoying

impressive

still no damn personnel credits! agreed that this sounds a lot like the early 90's era

New c93 album???!!!

ommmmgggggggg

I lost interest around Baalstorm sing omega. But tempted by this new one

played the entire new album last night with really great visuals, plus encore of 4/5 oldies. good show!

The moon is drunk
And the nightness is sick

Right return to form, this. Best since Black Ships imo, but basically better than that one already. Can't express how happy I am with the new one.

I never thought I'd live to see the day.

Well. That's me sold

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.