Dionysus_(album)

<i>Dionysus</i> (album)

Dionysus (album)

2018 studio album by Dead Can Dance

Dionysus is the ninth studio album by the British-Australian band Dead Can Dance, officially released on 2 November 2018 by PIAS Recordings, six years after the group's last album, Anastasis.[6][7]

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Artwork and title

The album cover's artwork features a skull mask made by the Huichol of Mexico.[8] Dionysus is the ancient Greek god of wine and religious ecstasy.

Critical reception

Dionysus was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 10 reviews.[1] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 15 reviews.[9]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Dead Can Dance (Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard)

All physical versions are indexed as just two tracks respectively.

Personnel

Dead Can Dance

Additional personnel

  • Geoff Pesche – mastering
  • DLT – layout

Charts

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References

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