Dead can Dance
The Serpent's egg

THE REVIEW

It is impossible not to be carried away by the powerful emotional wave of this album. Best listened to in the dark, with eyes closed, if possible.

The Serpent’s Egg was born from a distance. Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard are no longer a couple, yet they still gift us a beautiful masterpiece.

There are not many words to describe a captivating voice like Lisa Gerrard’s.

The “host of Seraphim” opens the album, introducing us to a rarefied world of wonderful auditory sensations. Esotericism and existentialism in her warm, crystalline, and feminine voice until it gives way to Brendan Perry's dark vigor in “Severance,” perhaps the most melodic track on the album.

The use of instruments is more sparse and essential in this album; the percussion often accompanies the rhythmic cadence of the voices, which are always at the forefront in all the tracks.

Even the titles like “The One-Eyed are Kings” or “Chant of the Paladin” evoke distant and ancestral sensations.

Lisa and Brendan take turns as if to make us feel their separation in each track, much like the beautiful minimalist cover that depicts a river dividing the land but then rejoining in a single magical flow.

A long, sparse journey made of psychedelic echoes that work in the unconscious, in the dark, in the night.