Crystal Mass is the fourth album by the Tear Garden, released four years after To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide. It has the same line-up as the previous release.
This was their last album released on Nettwerk.
Track listing All tracks by The Tear Garden
"Lament" – 6:28 "The Double Spades Effect" – 5:13 "Desert Island Disc" – 5:23 "Hopeful" – 3:28 "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" – 6:54 "Castaway" – 5:17 "Feathered Friends" – 4:56 "To Mourn the Death of Colour" – 12:39 "Six of One" – 7:26
Personnel Martijn de Kleer – acoustic guitar, violin, electric guitar Rachel K. – artwork Edward Ka-Spel – keyboards, vocals, producer, electronics cEvin Key – 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 Legendary Pink Dots song "Cheraderama".
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