Crystal Mass

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Crystal Mass
Crystal Mass cover
Studio album by The Tear Garden
Released 2000
Genre Psychedelic
Length 57:45
Label Subconscious
Professional reviews
The Tear Garden chronology
To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide
(1992)
Crystal Mass
(2000)
N/A


'Crystal Mass' is the fourth and latest album by The Tear Garden, released 4 years after their third To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide and it contains the same line-up used with that release.

This is their first album to be released solely under cEvin Key's Subconscious label.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Lament - 6:28
  2. The Double Spades Effect - 5:13
  3. Desert Island Disc - 5:23
  4. Hopeful - 3:28
  5. Castaway - 5:17
  6. Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster - 6:54
  7. Feathered Friends - 4:56
  8. To Mourn the Death of Colour - 12:39
  9. Six of One - 7:26

[edit] Notes

Personnel:

  • cEvin Key
  • Ryan Moore
  • The Silver Man
  • Martijn De Kleer
  • Edward Ka-Spel
  • Niels Van Hoorn

Guests:

  • Russell Nash (credits on 'Feathered Friend')
  • Bill Van Rooy (credits on 'Castaway')

Produced by cEvin Key/Frank Verschuuren/Edward Ka-Spel.

Engineered by Frank Verschuuren.

Recorded at Subconscious Studios, Los Angeles and Studio Klaverland, Holland, 1999.

[edit] Misc

'Crystal Mass' is plagued by a terrible tracking error: tracks 4 and 5 ('Hopeful' and 'Castaway') are indexed as a single 10:23 track.

'To Mourn The Death Of Colour' is used as a lyric in the The Legendary Pink Dots song Cheraderama.