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Midnight Sun

‘finding common vocabulary’

Dead Bees on a Cake opens with the album’s longest track, ‘I Surrender’, a song David Sylvian said ‘encapsulates the theme of the album’, being – as he described it – ‘love, devotion and divine intoxication.’ Embraced by a golden glow of inner-longings fulfilled, we are transported to a place where finally ‘the stars are all aligned’ and bookish enquiry is cast away in favour of first-hand experience: ‘“Come find the meaning of the word inside of me.”.’

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Before the Bullfight

‘the battle between the animal and the spiritual’

DJ David Jensen interviewed David Sylvian on a number of occasions in the early ’80s for his evening show on BBC Radio One. By the time Gone to Earth was approaching release, Jensen had moved on to a rival station, Capital Radio, so it was there that the pair would reunite to discuss what the new album might promise. Judging by what he had read in Virgin’s press release, Jensen predicted that ‘it’s sufficiently different from your last albums to again surprise a lot of people.’ Sylvian was more measured in response, ‘In a way for me it’s an extension of a lot of the work I did on Brilliant Trees, so I wouldn’t say it was extremely diverse in nature – but there should be a few surprises on there.’

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