Aion – Dead Can Dance
Take one bag of illegal herbal substance.
Add several goths.
Stir with plenty of velvet.
Stew for the duration of the album and you will experience neoclassicalist dark wave at its full.
This was the first DCD album I ever bought following a night at a very wild goth filled party in Liverpool during the 1990s.
Do you know that album people always say changed their lives? Well this is the one for me. Everything musical I’ve bought or downloaded since I heard this album is a direct result of having listened to this album.
Short of wearing black, moping about and smelling of pachulia; listening to Aion is an experience. You’ve more than likely heard most of the tracks anyway on documentaries or in trailers for films involving some sort of mediaeval jiggery pokery. Tracks that stand out include Fortune Present Gifts Not According to the Book, Saltarello and Black Sun.
Much like Blood Axis’ Absinthe, this album has accompanied me on trips into somnambulistic realms following surgery or late night meditative chats with Shamen. But not with the added unease that Absinthe brings. Aion is one of those Guardian reader type “Coffee Table” albums like Buena Vista Social Club.
So much so, if you want to be a hipster, get this, then tell everyone how dated it is once they too admit to owning a copy.
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[…] because of a gothic party held by Fields of Nephilim Cassette giver Chris, I went out and bought Dead Can Dance’s Aion. What you might not know is that this particular album was the cement in my goth music […]