To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide


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 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.

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