I was introduced to Liverpool’s Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus via the Christian industrial and goth forums that I frequented in the mid-to-late ’90s. The band’s music was described in almost reverent terms and mentioned in the same breath as Dead Can Dance and Current 93 — high praise indeed, as I’d just become fascinated with World Serpent’s catalog at the time. I was finally able to track down a copy of their first two albums, and I quickly found that all of the praise was justified, and then some.

The Army’s music is artsy to the extreme, mixing delicate folk arrangements, harsh industrial noise, and arcane-sounding lyrics with Christian imagery and iconography that were refreshingly different from my American Evangelical upbringing. (As for the enigmatic collective’s name, it’s a reference to a terrorist group in Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire.) The Army’s music always feels like it’s being transmitted from an otherworldly place, and that’s doubly so on “Nostalgia.”

The six-minute instrumental feels like a religious procession thanks to haunting synths, eerily playful piano melodies, samples from Jean Cocteau’s dream-like Orpheus, recitations of Russian poetry, and a choir. That’s a lot of elements to be sure, but the song is never anything less than sublime.