https://youtu.be/L-Y0QeSn6-0
The Light Is Leaving Us All appears to be Tibet's best album since the inimitable Black Ships Ate the Sky.
C93 doesn't perform much, so apologies for the clip' poor vocal mix. If you want to make out the words, here's the studio version.
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I'm sorry, I only think of 89.3 The Current whenever I see the name Current 93.
The band is a few decades older.
Shouldn't they amend their name then?
Why do you think the "93" represents the year 1993?
I've assumed it's numerological, which is reinforced by the typography. Seems the 93 is always surrounded by three dots making a triangle:
I haven't tried to figure out what David Tibet is saying in many of his songs (and even those I think I get may have referential meanings that I don't).
Maybe 100 years from now we can treat his music like the writings of Nostradamus.
The meaning of 93.
I meant if they're a few decades old, then they're not exactly "Current". Maybe the "Been Around Awhile 93"?
Dude, it's the 93rd current to have been identified on in a wire/waterway.
Currents have been around forever too. Still not so current if you ask me...
Maybe they could just go with "Currant 93"... 93rd fruit on the bush.
But really, too much renaming leads to the whole
Palace [Brothers/Songs/Music/_]/[_/[Dawn McCarthy/Matt Sweeney] and] Bonn[y/ie] [['/"/_]Prince['/"/_]/_] Billy [_/and [the Picket Line/Cairo Gang/the Marquis de Tren/Harem Scarem]/Will Oldham
morass that is my iPod