Issued in its original form five years ago, ‘The Light Left You Quite’ returns after a metamorphosis with new cross-fades between tracks, a different beginning and ending, and a total reversal of stereo channels to represent a wholly but subtly altered beast. As David Tibet’s typically prolific work and release rate has subsided to a finer trickle of albums over the past decade, he comes to dwell longer in their singular worlds, and here gets deeper into this late highlight of his oeuvre, holding a new candle to its cobwebbed corridors of spangled neofolk, classical and psych rock in a process of coming to terms with memories and unshakeable fleeting dreams.

Featuring touches by a roll-call including Scottish folkie Alasdair Roberts (guitars, hurdy-gurdy, guzheng, vox), Coil bagpiper Michael York and his Cyclobe bandmates Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown, plus Six Organs of Admittance’s Ben Chasny (guitars) and NWW’s Andrew Liles (guitar, electronics, mixing), among others, the album is no doubt led by David Tibet’s inimitable vocals and guiding hand on production. It covers recurrent93 themes such as the leitmotif of his disaffected school days in Teesside on ’30 Red Houses’, and eldritch pastoral arcana evoked in the classical neofolk of ‘The Birds are Sweetly Singing’ and ‘A Thousand Witches’, with a wonderful denouement in the whiskeyed strings of ‘The Milkmaid Sings’ and fireside prayer ‘Your Future Cartoon’.