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After being relatively unsuccessful in Australia, they moved to London where after one year they signed up to alternative music label 4AD. They continued to work close together, until later in the 1990s when they started to grow apart. Lisa Gerrard returned to Australia, meanwhile Brendan Perry moved to Ireland. It is speculated that the distance between the members was an influence in their eventually break-up.
Assigning a musical genre to Dead Can Dance is difficult, as their style was particularly eclectic. However, their early work could be considered goth music. In their later work, after The Serpent's Egg, Dead Can Dance would take as sources ancient or foreign music from around the world, giving them a very distinctive style (world music). As a result their later albums sound exceedingly different from the first three.
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There also exists a live album, Toward the Within, and a compilation, A Passage in Time. A compilation box-set was released in 2001 under the title Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) and a slimmer 2-cd version was released in 2003 under the title Wake.