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Thunder Perfect Mind
Current 93
Thunder Perfect Mind
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest
 
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Limited repressing of 1992 release for Durtro bythe English experimental/ electronic/ ambient/ industrial act, the sister album to Nurse With Wound's 1992 album of the same name. 16 tracks.

     
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All Artists: Current 93
Title: Thunder Perfect Mind
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Pidm
Release Date: 7/25/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Special Interest
Styles: Ambient, Goth & Industrial, Experimental Music
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 5021958414928, 5021958520025

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Limited repressing of 1992 release for Durtro bythe English experimental/ electronic/ ambient/ industrial act, the sister album to Nurse With Wound's 1992 album of the same name. 16 tracks.

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CD Reviews

The best of the best
Dave Lang | Coburg, VIC Australia | 08/30/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Current 93 are admittedly an aquired taste. I myself do not like a good third of their material, but when they're on, they're on, and this is about as ON as they've ever gotten. Taking a huge musical swing with '88's "Earth Covers Earth" (also a C93 high point), where inwhich they dropped their creepy industrial tag only to steep themselves in a kind of strange, mystical folk netherworld inspired by the likes of the Incredible String Band, Comus and Shirley/Dolly Collins, the band was well traversed in the given genre by 1992 to make their masterpiece. This is it. Featuring the usual suspects of Balance/Wood/Stapleton/McDowall, etc., as well as the likes of Nick Saloman (that's Bevis Frond to you, sir), David Tibet has successfully created a simply mesmerising collection of songs that play on all the best aspects of his talents: the ability to tell creepy stories with a melodic, enchanting, yet often melancholy backdrop by his cohorts. "A Sadness Song" is probably the best song he's ever done, and the 10+ minute track, "Hitler as Kalki", contains some stunning psych guitar work from Mr. Saloman. "Thunder Perfect Mind" contains next to none of the insane ranting nor vapid pretensions that marr certain other C93 releases, and all that talk of them being "gothic masters" (and I loathe "gothic" music) is pure baloney: this is pure psychedelia the way it should be: a head trip without the drugs, just the sounds."
An album of fragile, crystalline perfection
Dave Lang | 03/11/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Current 93 are, in my opinion, the best band working, possibly ever. David Tibet takes the excessively prolific aesthetic of Psychic TV several steps further. Not only does he release a ton of music, but he releases a ton of GOOD music, which is more difficult. Really, I can't think of a band with more truly great albums than Current 93. That said, Thunder Perfect Mind stands out even in Tibet's catalogue. Stated simply this is perfect music. When I first heard this, I knew I was hearing the music I had been searching years for. Everything on this album is right, lyrics, arrangements, performance, vocal deliveries, everything. It also marks a sort of end of an era for Current 93, being the last recording to feature longtime contributors Douglas P and Rose McDowall (although Rose has continued to perform live with Tibet) and the first to feature Michael Cashmore, who has had much to do with the band's sound since. It also marks a sort of end to Tibet's more epic songwriting styles, soon to be replaced by much more personal material. When it came out, Thunder Perfect Mind seemed to represent an unreachable peak for Current 93. Then came "Of Ruine," and the peak was reached once again. Brilliant."
Subjectivity and the Word
Luis Santiago Baptista | Lisboa, Portugal | 10/10/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

""Thunder Perfect Mind" is a gnostic poem of rare beauty. We only know it because it remained hidden until it was discovered in Egypt in 1945, escaping the repression of the early church in the second century of our age. The ideas of Gnosticism were considered dangerous because they defied the instuticionalised rules of the church proposing a more personal relation to God. What does this have to do with this magnificent album of Current 93? In this record David Tibet follows a somehow similar operation inherent to Gnosticism entering a more personal path culminating a extraordinary discography influenced by a fascination with religion around the texts of Christianism, Budhism, Paganism, etc (Imperium, Swastikas for Noddy, Earth Covers Earth, etc). This fascination is to continue for the brilliant albuns to follow, but with an increasing personal touch (Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre, All the Pretty Little Horses, Soft Black Stars, Sleep as His House). "Thunder Perfect Mind" is the key album of this transition, where both paths, the historic and the personal, start to collide and mix. There is nothing like it. The strangeness of the musical atmosphere throw us in the sphere of transcendence through imanence, where the terrestrial dialectic opositions disseminates in an all inclusive world. This album doesn't simply illustrate the Sacred Word. And it doesn't only gives you an individual expression, a personal interpretation. We, along with Mr Tibet and friends, confront ourselves with the incommensurability of Being. That is why this music is so powerful and cannot be easily described. It just opens the world through truly creative work. This is the poetic dimension of music, that cannot be understood as ligth entertainment for a capitalist society. There is melancholy ("sadness song"), schizophrenie ("Hitler as Kalky", "All the stars are dead now"), dreadness ("Thunder Perfect Mind"), pure beauty ("Mary waits in silence"), and so on. If you are interested in something that unveils our profound human nature this is one place to start musically digging..."