To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide explained

To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide
Type:	studio
Artist:	The Tear Garden
Cover:	Crippledsoul.jpg
Released:	1996
Genre:	Psychedelic
Length:	1:11:40
Label:	Nettwerk/Subconscious
Prev Title:	The Last Man to Fly
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Crystal Mass
Next Year:	2000

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 (and the end of Skinny Puppy) a year previously. The album tends to carry a less electronic and more somber tone to it overall as cEvin Key and others changed instrumental priorities following Goettel's death and their respective moods reflecting that death. Another member of The Legendary Pink Dots, Niels Van Hoornblower, appears on this album.

According to Edward Ka-Spel, the album was intended to be called To Be an Angel Blind, the Cripple Soul Divide, but all copies are erroneously titled as "Crippled". Ka-Spel corrected the title for the download release on Bandcamp, but the cover scan still shows the erroneous title.^[1]

Track listing

1. Ascension Day – 6:01
2. We the People – 4:49
3. In Search of My Rose – 4:28
4. Crying from Outside – 7:03
5. Psycho 9 – 5:22
6. With Wings – 5:38
7. Judgement Hour – 6:15
8. New Eden – 4:24
9. Tasteless – 4:51
10. Cyberspider – 3:53
11. Malice Through the Looking Glass – 7:52
12. Phoenix – 5:30
13. The Habit – 5:34

Notes

Personnel:

• cEvin Key
• Edward Ka-Spel
• The Silverman
• Ryan Moore
• Martijn De Kleer
• Niels Van Hoornblower

Guests:

• Peggy Lee
• Aeron Wild
• Mark Spybey
• Tom Anselmi

Produced by cEvin Key and Anthony Valcic.

Engineered by Anthony Valcic at Subconscious.

Mixed by Ken Marshall and Anthony Valcic, assisted by Frankie Verschuuren and Chris Peterson.

Notes and References

1. Web site: To Be An Angel Blind, The Cripple Soul Divide by Tear Garden . Bandcamp . 17 March 2024.