BSPH: Current 93 - Crowleymass

It's time! It's time! It's time! I can feel it coming in the air tonight. I've been waiting for this moment for not exactly all my life but definitely for a considerable amount of time.

"Crowleymass" is a song by British mystic industrial band Current 93. It was released in 1987 on an eponymous 12' inch EP. It is one of those song you instantly fall in love with. It is neat gothic dance track sonically very uncharacteristic for Current 93 but in the same time it is stylistically emblematic of the bands major themes.

The song is a collaboration between David Tibet and Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson - Tibet handled the lyrics while Hilmarsson did the arrangement. There are also some backing vocals contributions from one and only Rose McDowall of Strawberry Switchblade. From the stylistic standpoint "Crowleymass" is pretty straightforward gothic-laced dance synth-pop salivated in gregorian chants and toy-like synth brass stabs. The song is very definition of the word "merry". You can't help but feel happy while listening to it.

Lyrically it is grim condemnation of the square state of things and declaration of separation from the establishment due to manevolent creative differences. But despite being rather serious in its intentions it is written as a childish sailor chantey. It is a joyful celebration of the works of Aleister Crowley and his major ideas bundled with the greatest singalong chorus ever put to tape. (Seriously - "Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass - Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!" is infectious thing to behold - it sticks forever and leaves you humming it until the very ).