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Dead Can Dance - 1981-1998

Primary Artist
Dead Can Dance
Album Title
1981-1998
Release Date
November 6, 2001 
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Review by Lindsay Planer
This multimedia box set celebrates the 17-year affiliation between Dead Can Dance and the alternative-friendly 4AD label. In addition to key album tracks, Dead Can Dance 1981-1998 contains a handful of previously unissued performances spread over three audio discs. Also included is a single-sided video DVD containing the Mark Magdison documentary Toward the Within, as well as six promotional music videos. Few pop music artists define themselves by virtue of reinvention. However, the mere existence of Dead Can Dance is firmly entrenched upon an evolutionary amalgam of the '80s noir industrial scene with sonic styles and patterns indelibly rooted in world music. Read More