The Serpent's Egg (album)
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| Studio album by Dead Can Dance | ||||
| Released | 24 October 1988 | |||
| Genre | Neoclassical dark wave | |||
| Length | 36:15 | |||
| Label | 4AD | |||
| Producer | Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, John A. Rivers | |||
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The Serpent's Egg is the fourth studio album by Australian musical act Dead Can Dance. It was released on 24 October 1988 by record label 4AD.
The album was the last produced while Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were a romantic couple. A majority of the album was recorded in a multi-storey apartment block in the Isle of Dogs, London.
Perry discussed the album's title: "In a lot of aerial photographs of the Earth, if you look upon it as a giant organism—a macrocosmos—you can see that the nature of the life force, water, travels in a serpentine way".
All tracks written by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.
In a retrospective review, AllMusic said, "Perry and Gerrard continued to experiment and improve with The Serpent's Egg, as much a leap forward as Spleen and Ideal was some years previously", heaping particular praise on the album opener "The Host of Seraphim", which it called "so jaw-droppingly good that almost the only reaction is sheer awe".
"The Host of Seraphim" was used in the end credits of the 2007 film The Mist. It was also used in the theatrical trailer for Home of the Brave, and in the non-narrative documentary film Baraka.
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