The Light Is Leaving Us All

2018 studio album by Current 93

Studio album by

Current 93

Released

13 October 2018

Length

46:05

Label

The Spheres
House of Mythology

Producer

David Tibet
Andrew Liles

Current 93 chronology

I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell: A Channel
(2014)

The Light Is Leaving Us All
(2018)

If a City is set upon a Hill
(2022)

Singles from The Light Is Leaving Us All

"Bright Dead Star"
Released: 23 August 2018

The Light Is Leaving Us All is an album by British experimental music group Current 93.^[1] It was released on 13 October 2018 through The Spheres record label and House of Mythology. The album was performed in its entirety on 13 October 2018 in a rare performance at O₂ Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, backed by a series of slow-moving films by Davide Pepe in the style of the album's artwork.^[2]^[3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork	7.2/10^[4]

The Light Is Leaving Us All has received generally positive reviews from critics. Writing for Brainwashed, Anthony D'Amico praised the album, stating it "effortlessly transcends time and space and dissolves reality to open a fleeting portal into an alternate world swirling with unknowable mystery, unearthly beauty, and ineffable sadness. At its best, this album feels like a motley and wild-eyed caravan of minstrels, actors, and puppeteers unexpectedly appeared in a medieval town to share a vividly haunting, hallucinatory, and deeply eschatological fairy tale that will be the last thing that any of the villagers ever hear."^[5] Writing for Pitchfork, Calum Marsh called it "an arduous but rewarding album, the feeling of listening to a preacher behind the pulpit, or a doomsayer on the soapbox."^[4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Current 93^[6]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Birds Are Sweetly Singing"	3:45
2.	"The Policeman Is Dead"	5:28
3.	"Bright Dead Star"	4:22
4.	"30 Red Houses"	3:19
5.	"A Thousand Witches"	5:45
6.	"Your Future Cartoon"	2:49
7.	"The Postman Is Singing"	5:59
8.	"The Bench and the Fetch"	4:01
9.	"The Kettle's On"	3:49
10.	"Fair Weather"	4:49
11.	"The Milkmaid Sings"	1:59
Total length:		46:05

Notes

"The Policeman Is Dead" contains a sample of "A Blacksmith Courted Me" by Phoebe Smith, courtesy of Sweet David Suff and Topic Records.^[7]

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.^[8]

Musicians

David Tibet – vocals
Andrew Liles – electric guitar, electronics
Alasdair Roberts – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drone hurdy gurdy, guzheng
Reinier Van Houdt – Fender Rhodes electric piano, piano, theremin, synthesizer, bass
Michael J. York – bagpipes, whistle, duduk, bells
Aloma Ruiz Boada – violin
Rita Knuistingh Neven – silent piano, sleep keys, birdlight
Ben Chasny – doppelgänger electric guitar (8, 10), doppelgänger acoustic guitar (8, 10)
Ossian Brown – hurdy gurdy
Thomas Ligotti – ghost, voice

Technical personnel

David Tibet – production, mixing, cover design, front cover painted photograph The Light Is Leaving Us All, back cover painted photograph The Light Is Leaving Them All, front cover of insert Bella Arises From The Wych Elm, photograph of Ben Chasny
Andrew Liles – production, mixing, engineering
The Bricoleur – vinyl mastering
Stephen Thrower – photograph of Ossian Brown
Reinier Van Houdt – photograph of Rita Knuistingh Neven
David Ligotti – photograph of Thomas Ligotti
Giulio Di Mauro – tour manager, centerfold photograph of Current 93
Ania Goszczyńska – cover design, layout
Patrick Wells – screenprinting
Paschalis Zervas – typesetting
Jake Gill – management
Timothy Mark Lewis – management
Davide Pepe – films

References

^ Reid, Mike (24 August 2018). "Current 93 indirectly comment on your exorbitant-ass electric bill, announce new album The Light Is Leaving Us All". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ "Current 93 released a new LP, played the UK w/ Nurse With Wound, doing stuff in California in 2019". BrooklynVegan. 17 October 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ Armstrong, Aimee (19 October 2018). "Current 93 essay their strain of disquiet at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire". Crack Magazine. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b Marsh, Calum (18 October 2018). "Current 93: The Light Is Leaving Us All Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ D'Amico, Anthony (28 October 2018). "Current 93, "The Light Is Leaving Us All"". Brainwashed. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ "The Light Is Leaving Us All / Current 93". TIDAL. 13 October 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
^ "Current 93's 'The Policeman Is Dead' sample of Phoebe Smith's 'A Blacksmith Courted Me'". WhoSampled. Retrieved 29 December 2018.
^ The Light Is Leaving Us All (Liner notes). Current 93. The Spheres. 2018. twentytwo.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)