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Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth (4AD 45384-2; CD and cassette)

Amy Linden, The New York Times, 12 December 1993

OVER THE course of 12 years and six albums, the Anglo-Irish duo Dead Can Dance has created music that gives new meaning to the word undefinable. Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, the group's vocalists, producers and arrangers, combine Middle Eastern tonalities, Celtic harmonies and a hint of mope rock's ponderousness. What they end up with is a haunting amalgam of world beat and art rock.

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