| The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | The Legendary Pink Dots |
| Cover: | The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse LPD.jpg |
| Released: | 1990 |
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| Length: | 68:06 (CD) 46:41 (LP and cassette) |
| Label: | Play It Again Sam/Wax Trax!, Caroline (Belgium, US) Cacciocavallo/Soleilmoon (US) SPV (Poland) |
| Producer: | The Legendary Pink Dots |
| Prev Title: | Four Days |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | The Maria Dimension |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
The Crushed Velvet Apocalypse is an album by the Anglo-Dutch band the Legendary Pink Dots, released in 1990.[1] [2] [3] The album is a cult fan favorite.[4] Niels van Hoorn contributed on flute, saxophones, and clarinet.[5]
The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Using instrumentation that includes electronics, guitar, sitar, flute and oboe, the longtime-cult-favorite Pink Dots craft a sometimes-stark, sometimes-elegant, sometimes-dreamy outing of neo-psychedelia and alternative pop that's imbued with a pronounced eccentricity of vision and a captivating originality of execution." Trouser Press noted that "Green Gang" "runs sitar/tabla meanderings into twittering flutes and winds up building a quietly disturbing skein of motorway noise."[6]
In 2016, LA Weekly included Crushed Velvet Apocalypse on its list of classic goth albums.[7] Salt Lake City Weekly called the music "lush, luxurious and sensual, yet also dark and sinister, with a sense of mysticism that is foreboding more than comforting."[8]
(*) Not included on LP and cassette editions – taken from the Princess Coldheart 12".
(+) Unreleased CD bonus track.