THE DANSE SOCIETY - Heaven Is Waiting

LP Arista Records 1984
CD reissue Great Expectations 1992 with bonus tracks



"The Danse Society were a very special band formed in the early 1980’s and hailed from the Goth heartland of Yorkshire. After their highly regarded album Seduction on their own label Society Records, the band signed to Arista Records and released this, the excellent Heaven Is Waiting album. It's their most complete and accomplished album. During the eighties, the Danse Society created a reputation for lush and atmospheric sounds that separated them from the rest of the gothic scene at the time. The innovative and creative use of keyboards was the element that gave the band their distinctive sound".
(cherryred.co.uk)

" Goth music has been perhaps unfairly maligned down the years. So often associated with humourless, irony-free presentation and tuneless displays of depression, at its worst it is admittedly unbearable. Danse Society were never that poor but this reissue of their 1984 album Heaven Is Waiting sums up the good and bad of the goth scene in a nutshell. Made up by Steve Rawlings' powerful, haunting vocals, Lyndon Scarfe's very much 'of the time' keyboard embellishments and a fiercesome, bludgeoning rhythm section the group were built on solid foundations. Everything begins well with Come Inside and Wake Up possessing an imperious majesty and vitality. Such qualities are sadly absent from the keyboard-heavy work with fancy arrangments that Ultravox had long since discarded as being passé". (Jonathan Leonard, Leonard's Lair)

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Intro / Come Inside