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Number 37 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th Century

Dead Cities

The Future Sound of London

1996 · ambient · breakbeat · IDM · downtempo

Virgin · CDV2814

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Why it's here

Sampled radio, dread and We Have Explosive; the 90s turning bleak

Dead Cities hears the nineties as a collapsing broadcast. Radio static, industrial texture and dread crowd the frame, with 'We Have Explosive' detonating inside a record far tighter than Lifeforms. Sometimes atmosphere does the work structure should, which costs it a few places. The air still feels contaminated.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Herd Killing2:36
  2. 2Dead Cities6:36
  3. 3Her Face Forms In Summertime5:39
  4. 4We Have Explosive6:19
  5. 5Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me4:10
  6. 6My Kingdom5:46
  7. 7Max2:49
  8. 8Antique Toy5:43
  9. 9Quagmire / In A State Of Permanent Abyss6:57
  10. 10Glass5:38
  11. 11Yage7:32
  12. 12Vit Drowning / Through Your Gills I Breathe5:32
  13. 13.1First Death In The Family2:18
  14. 13.2(no audio)1:00
  15. 13.3Dead Cities Reprise1:28