Spleen and Ideal
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Spleen and Ideal
| Type = [[Album]]
| Artist = [[Dead Can Dance]]
| Cover = Spleen_and_Ideal.jpg
| Released = September 1, 1986
| Recorded = September - November 1985
| Genre = [[Darkwave]]<br />[[World music]]<br />[[Neoclassical (Dark Wave)|Neoclassical]]
| Length = 38:11
| Label = [[4AD Records]]
| Producer = [[Brendan Perry]], [[Lisa Gerrard]], [[John A. Rivers]]
| Reviews =
* [[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:r69ss35ba3bg link]
| Last album = ''[[Dead Can Dance (album)|Dead Can Dance]]''<br />(1984)
| This album = '''''Spleen and Ideal'''''<br />(1985)
| Next album = ''[[Within the Realm of a Dying Sun]]''<br />(1987)
}}
'''''Spleen and Ideal''''' is the second album recorded by [[Dead Can Dance]], released in 1986. A rather etheral form of [[darkwave|darkwave music]], similar to the origins in their debut album, ''[[Dead Can Dance (album)|Dead Can Dance]]'', and followed a more [[world music]] and [[neoclassical (Dark Wave)|neoclassical]] oriented content, with lyrics based on the writings of [[Charles Baudelaire]] and [[Thomas de Quincey]].
==Track listing==
# "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)" – 4:00
# "Ascension" – 3:05
# "Circumradiant Dawn" – 3:17
# "The Cardinal Sin" – 5:29
# "Mesmerism" – 3:53
# "Enigma of the Absolute" – 4:13
# "Advent" – 5:19
# "Avatar" – 4:35
# "Indoctrination (A Design for Living)" – 4:16
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