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Dust To Ashes 1945

from Don't Open Till Doomsday by Alien Skin

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"...superbly produced album that intensifies the imagination as you float endlessly within its internal fluid & atmospheric beauty." Collective Thoughts

"...'Don't Open Till Doomsday' has an odd character, sometimes sensual and earthly while other times it's like a lone abandoned spaceship floating in the immensity of space. This may be related to the fact that the voice constitutes the organic component while the electronic ambience and rhythmic accompaniments are melancholic, cold & opaque in contrast." Heathen Harvest.

"...a 'kaleidoscope of electronic melancholia - music for astronauts, aliens, and all marginal beings living at the frontiers.' In many ways, this is the best description anyone could give this strange, beautiful record. Like a kaleidoscope, it seems to be in a constant state of flux, with the sound shifting almost imperceptibly as it works its way into the mind." Beatwire.

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DUST TO ASHES 1945
An unearthly shadow contorts to speak
And in a chill i wake from sleep
Cause I know where I've been
And what my dreams have seen
A rumble from my passing thoughts
A memory of a day that taunts
And I know where you've been
And what your flesh has seen
Dust to ashes, ashes to dust
On a black Monday came the mighty and the just
Dust to ashes, ashes to dust
On a black Monday, in which god can we trust?
Amidst the ruins I lay her down
A melting skyline a mangled sound
Then darkness falls again
And silence masquerades as friend
Dust to ashes, ashes to dust
On a black Monday came the mighty and the just
Dust to ashes, ashes to dust
On a black Monday, in what god can we trust?

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from Don't Open Till Doomsday, released April 8, 2008

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Alien Skin Melbourne, Australia

I've been making darkwave electropop from elements of 80s post-punk subculture for over 40 years. Including years in the Australian band 'Real Life' topping world charts in the 80s with 'Send Me An Angel'.

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