Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves

Legendary Pink Dots | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 30, 2006)
• Original Release Date: May 30, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Roir
• ASIN: B000FFJ812
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,102 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves is the Legendary Pink Dots’ 25th anniversary album (and in the running for best album title ever). It’s hard to believe a quarter century has passed since the Pink Dots first unearthed their complex vision where fate and whimsy cast stones at each other on some hazy, polluted playground. LPD’s unusual legacy of psychedelia, industrial gloom, and textural madness has made them a constant presence on the innovative fringes of cult music, and has earned them near-universal respect from critics and peers. It was this legacy that shaped much of the album: The actual theme of "legacy", "the consequence of past and present action on the future", has consciously informed much of this release. In some ways, it's been a central-core-theme of all our songwriting these last 25 years. – Phil ‘The Silverman’ Knight Twenty-five years later, the Dots have hardly paused for a breath. Edward Ka-Spel, The Silverman and company (Niels Van Hoornblower, Raymond Steeg & returning member Martijn de Kleer), still make boundlessly weird, beautifully disturbing music.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Legendary Pink Dots - 'Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves' (Rior), June 5, 2008

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves (Audio CD)

Most recent, 2006 effort from the long-running Legendary Pink Dots. This is like their twenty-fifth record (not counting compilations) and it seems that Edward Ka-Spel and crew hasn't lost a beat. Tunes here that I, personally liked best were "No Matter What You Do", the sedate "Peace Of Mind", the well played "The Made Man's Manifesto" and "Silver Thread". Couldn't help but to notice the Silverman's {aka Phillip Knight} electronic wizardry on the keyboards. His work has never disappointed me on any Dots release. I saw the band play a club on this very tour just before Syd Barrett's death and even before Syd had passed, I kept thinking how much Ka-Spel as well as the entire band reminded me so much of the missed Pink Floyd founder.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not their best, March 8, 2011

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This review is from: Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves (Audio CD)

too low key , too many slow drofting tunes ,Not the variety of most of their other stuff . I am a big fan of LPD , but this is poor stuff , by their standards

5.0 out of 5 stars One of their best out of the 2000's, December 31, 2008

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Mirrorsaw (Long Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves (Audio CD)

Their best album since All the Kings Men imho, although now surpassed by Plutonium Blonde, this album is great; although they get softer as they age, their musical compositions grow more complex and beautiful. There are some tracks on this album which are all time dots greatest hits such as Peace of Mind.