Crystal Mass

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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

1. "Lament" – 6:28
2. "The Double Spades Effect" – 5:13
3. "Desert Island Disc" – 5:23
4. "Hopeful" – 3:28
5. "Her Majesty's Trusted Food Taster" – 6:54
6. "Castaway" – 5:17
7. "Feathered Friends" – 4:56
8. "To Mourn the Death of Colour" – 12:39
9. "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".