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Lucifer Over London

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This single, together with Tamlin, are some of the most powerful works by Current 93. I wish they had worked more this style and made an album with 9 or 10 songs in this vein, 'cos it would have been prooably the best c93 album ever.

Sadly, they just released 2 singles, but they're very very good and worth the money.

'Lucifer Over London' has 3 songs, and all are fantastic and varied.

The homonym song is one of the strongest c93 songs ever. More rock than usual but still with that folkish touch, it's a 7 minute masterpiece in which electric guitar, acoustic guitar and bells togethe with some atmospheric keyboards make a wonderful song. You won't help repeating the chorus once and again in your head, stuck like glue.

'Sadly go round' is also quite rockish, with some circus-like sounds especially at the end which makes if not a terribly original song, at least very enjoyable.

'The seven seals...etc etc' is a 13 minute song which is mainly narrated, with a wonderfully creepy atmosphere which, unlike other c93 narrated songs, don't tire me at all. It contains some passsages from Lucifer Over London, which makes a sense of unity and circle to the single.

Buy it.

Lucifer Over London actually opens with a Black Sabbath riff! Sad Go Round features a guitar solo! This is one of the strangest, most unexpected directions Current 93 ever took in their long career, and it's absolutely amazing. "Sixsixsix, it makes me sick, i'm sicksicksick of sixsixsix." The "rock" Current 93 didn't last too long, just one more song "How the Great Satanic Glory Faded" on the Tamlin single. It's pretty cool, too.

This is C93's "rock" EP, including the spirited "Lucifer over London," as well as two other tracks, one being a cover and the other being a long talking piece with one of Tibet's wonderful eschatalogical rants.