Spleen and Ideal

Label: Dead Can Dance
Running length: 11 tracks
Running time: 44:58

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	The Cardinal Sin	5:29	29,140
1	De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)	3:56	21,901
2	Ascension	3:05	29,841
3	Circumradiant Dawn	3:17	29,737
5	Mesmerism	3:53	30,096
6	Enigma of the Absolute	4:12	63,597
7	Advent	5:19	27,578
8	Avatar	4:32	34,090
9	Indoctrination (A Design for Living)	4:12	22,339
	De Profundis	3:58	3,637
	Ascention	3:05	24

About this album

Spleen and Ideal is the second album recorded by Dead Can Dance, released in 1986. A rather ethereal form of gothic music, similar to the origins of its debut album, Dead Can Dance, and followed a more world music- and neoclassical-oriented content, with lyrics based on the writings of Charles Baudelaire and Thomas de Quincey. It is considered the group’s best album from a lyrical standpoint.

Track listing

1. “De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)” – 4:00
2. “Ascension” – 3:05
3. “Circumradiant Dawn” – 3:17