Crystal Mass is the fourth album by The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/gothic/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel...

, released four years after To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide

To Be an Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide

To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide is the third album by The Tear Garden, released four years after The Last Man To Fly.This is the first Tear Garden album without Dwayne Goettel, with his death a year previously...

. It has the same line-up as the previous release.

This was their last Crystal Mass album released on Nettwerk

Nettwerk

The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville, and Hamburg...

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Track listing

All tracks by The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/gothic/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel...

1. "Lament" - 6:28
2. "The Double Spades Effect" - 5:13
3. "Desert Island Disc" - 5:23
4. "Hopeful" - 3:28
5. "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" - 6:54
6. "Castaway" - 5:17
7. "Feathered Friends" - 4:56
8. "To Mourn the Death of Colour" - 12:39
9. "Six of One" - 7:26

Personnel

• Martijn de Kleer – acoustic guitar, violin, electric guitar
• Rachel K. – artwork
• Edward Ka-Spel
  Edward Ka-Spel
  Edward Ka-Spel is an expatriate English singer, songwriter and musician residing in the Netherlands.-Biography:...
  
   – keyboards, vocals, producer, electronics
• cEvin Key
  CEvin Key
  cEvin Key is the pseudonym of Kevin William Crompton , who was a founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy, along with Nivek Ogre. In addition to his work with Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key has had several side projects, including Doubting Thomas, Cyberaktif, and Hilt...
  
   – acoustic guitar, percussion, drums, keyboards, producer, electronics, tapes
• Remco Polman – image manipulation
• Niels Van Hoorn – flute
• Bill Van Rooy – hand percussion
• Frankie Verschuuren – producer, engineer

Crystal Mass has a tracking error: tracks 4 and 5 ("Hopeful" and "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster") are indexed as a single 10:23 track. In addition, the track listing on the album mistakenly titles track 6 as "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" when in fact it is "Castaway".

"To Mourn The Death Of Colour" is used as a lyric in the The Legendary Pink Dots

The Legendary Pink Dots

The Legendary Pink Dots are an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. Although far outside the mainstream , LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently.-Overview:The Legendary Pink Dots formed in August 1980 in London...

song "Cheraderama".