Anastasis | ||||
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Studio album by Dead Can Dance | ||||
Released | 13 August 2012 14 August 2012 (US) |
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Recorded | Recorded and produced at Quivvy Studios (Cavan, Ireland), mastered at Masterlabs (Dublin) | |||
Genre | World music, worldbeat, neoclassical dark wave | |||
Length | 56:06 | |||
Label |
PIAS Recordings A55 (US) |
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Producer |
Brendan Perry Lisa Gerrard |
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Dead Can Dance chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 69/100 |
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The NewReview | |
Paste | 5.4/10 |
Pitchfork | 8/10 |
PopMatters |
Anastasis is a 2012 studio album by the British-Australian band Dead Can Dance. It is the eighth studio album by the band and the first after Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard disbanded in 1998. It was officially released on 13 August 2012 by PIAS Recordings, 16 years after the group's last album, Spiritchaser. It is also the band's first album since it left 4AD Records. "Anastasis" is the Greek word for "resurrection".
To date, Anastasis sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.
Anastasis received generally favorable reviews based on 16 critics at Metacritic.
All tracks written by Dead Can Dance (Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard).