“LPD have created some of
the most enigmatic and challenging compositions in modern music.”
–ROLLING STONE
Your Children Placate You
From Premature Graves is The
Legendary Pink Dots’ 25th anniversary album (and in the running
for best album title ever). It’s hard to believe a quarter century
has passed since the Pink Dots first unearthed their complex vision where
fate and whimsy cast stones at each other on some hazy, polluted playground.
LPD’s unusual legacy of psychedelia, industrial gloom, and textural
madness has made them a constant presence on the innovative fringes of
cult music, and has earned them near-universal respect from critics and
peers. It was this legacy that shaped much of the album:
The actual theme of "legacy",
"the consequence of past and present action on the future",
has consciously informed much of this release. In some ways, it's been
a central-core-theme of all our songwriting these last 25 years. –Phil ‘The Silverman’ Knight
Twenty-five years later, the Dots
have hardly paused for a breath. Edward Ka-Spel, The Silverman and company
(Niels Van Hoornblower, Raymond Steeg & returning member Martijn de
Kleer), still make boundlessly weird, beautifully disturbing music.
This is an album about mortality
& immortality, about time ticking away mercilessly, about seizing
the moment and damning the consequences. Your victims are lining up on
both sides of the corridor, unborn yet forgiving. We are all pitifully
human and we all want to take everything with us at the end, but there
is no end...just a darkening endless horizon... –Edward Ka-Spel
In addition to the 25th anniversary
album, the Dots will embark on a massive North American tour this June
to celebrate this landmark occasion. Then they’ll disappear into
the ether…until their next haunting.
“Since 1980, LPD have created some of the
most enigmatic and challenging compositions in modern music. The uniqueness
of their work is due in large part to its omnivorous ability to consume
and transform a variety of styles into a new, cohesive entity. The introverted
folk of Nick Drake may be found here, as well as the graphic cyberpunk
nightmares of Frank Tovey (Fad Gadget), not to mention the rhythmic permutations
of Philip Glass. From Beefheart to Brahms, the sources of LPD's quicksilver
soundscapes are myriad. What holds them all together is Ka-Spel's dense
lyricism and grim obsessions.” –ROLLING STONE
“Proceeding
out of a hodgepodge of gloomy/fringey/hippie antecedents—Joy Division,
Syd Barrett, Faust, etc.—but adding a classical sensibility, involuted
mythology, found-sound sampling weirdness, plus all sorts of stylistic
cross-mingling and experimentation, Edward Ka- Spel (vocals, lyrics, keyboards),
Phil Knights (aka The Silver Man; keyboards) and a shifting collection
of associates have turned the Legendary Pink Dots into an open-ended adventure.
Although certainly prone to enigmatic risk-taking, the enormously resourceful
LPD is a mellifluous and dynamically restrained proposition: this is one
dip into the rock netherworld that won't send you running for cover. The
lyrics, however—a disturbing onslaught of doom, violence and apocalypse—are
a different story.” –TROUSER PRESS
The Legendary Pink Dots Official Website: brainwashed.com/lpd
