Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance Dead Can DanceOn the evidence of this, the band's first record, Dead Can Dance can clearly be seen as a "Goth" group in the vein of Bauhaus, et al. The band's sound here is much more clearly based in the "contemporary" Dead Can Dance uses traditional song structures, the group's instrumentation is almost entirely synthesized, and co vocalist Lisa Gerrard's voice rarely gets into the truly ethereal, other worldly realms that it would on later albums. Perhaps the

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