Crushed Velvet Apocalypse

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Critical reception

Template:Music ratings The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Using instrumentation that includes electronics, guitar, sitar, flute and oboe, the longtime-cult-favorite Pink Dots craft a sometimes-stark, sometimes-elegant, sometimes-dreamy outing of neo-psychedelia and alternative pop that's imbued with a pronounced eccentricity of vision and a captivating originality of execution."[6] Trouser Press noted that "Green Gang" "runs sitar/tabla meanderings into twittering flutes and winds up building a quietly disturbing skein of motorway noise."[7]

In 2016, LA Weekly included Crushed Velvet Apocalypse on its list of classic goth albums.[8] Salt Lake City Weekly called the music "lush, luxurious and sensual, yet also dark and sinister, with a sense of mysticism that is foreboding more than comforting."[9]

Track listing

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(*) Not included on LP and cassette editions – taken from the Princess Coldheart 12".

(+) Unreleased CD bonus track.

Personnel

  • Qa'Sepel (Edward Ka-Spel) – voices, keyboards
  • The Silver Man (Phil Knight) – keyboards, samples, devices, percussion
  • Bob Pistoor – guitars, sitar, bass
  • Niels van Hoorn – flute, saxophones, bass clarinet
  • Hanz Myer – electronics, oboe, tymphanis

Additional personnel

  • Hanz Myre – engineer

Notes

  • The SPV edition contains different artwork than that of the other editions.
  • The album title references the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989.
  • The Safe Way references a grocery store on the west coast of the United States.

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