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:: Release Info:
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:: Artist......> Doleful Lions
:: Title.......> Shaded Lodge and Mausoleum
:: Label.......> Parasol
:: Genre.......> Indie
:: Rip.Date....> Mar-26-2006
:: Street.Date.> 000-00-0000
:: Source......> CDDA
:: Quality.....> VBRkbps - Full Stereo
:: Play Time...> 46:56 min
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:: Track Listing:
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:: 01. Sham Magic in the Night Gallery
:: 02. Watch the Skies - A Boys Life
:: 03. Strange Vibrations
:: 04. O Martyr Atlantis
:: 05. Destroyers of the West
:: 06. The Ghost that Haunts Your World Will Disappear
:: 07. Satanic Blood
:: 08. Tommy Tells of Ghost Ships
:: 09. Slip Inside this Gateway
:: 10. The Extra-Large Epiphany
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:: Release Notes:
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:: While some indie bands, with their impenetrable song
:: structures, vexing lyrics, and contrived wardrobes,
:: practically beckon for a lambasting, Chapel Hill's Doleful
:: Lions aim to purr and meow their way onto your lap in the
:: damned most adorable way possible. For seven years they've
:: Snuffleupagussed themselves into fans' hearts by setting
:: saccharine folk-pop in a lysergic fantasyland of sasquatches,
:: werewolves, and other assorted bugaboos. Yet even at their
:: most far-fetched offerings, the band's only elicited a mere
:: chuckle and slap on the wrist from critics. That's the perk
:: of possessing one of the most soothing lullaby voices this
:: side of Stuart Murdoch, and singer Jonathan Scott knows it.
::
:: On 2002's Out Like a Lamb, Scott finally cashed in on his
:: stirring voice and keen pop sensibilities by ebbing his New
:: Age fixations and utilizing a full band. For better or worse,
:: Shaded Lodge marks a return to the cauldron for the Lions as
:: studio wizard David Jackson and Scott collaborate to conjure
:: up more kooky things that go bump in the night. However,
:: "kooky" for the Lions is hardly an Olivia Tremor Control or
:: even Flaming Lips brand of quirky pop, but rather stripped
:: down Simon and Garfunkel acoustic ditties drenched in reverb
:: and the occasional sound effect.
::
:: Despite the eerie blips and screeches, Out Like a Lamb is the
:: only thing really haunting this record. The tracklist's split
:: between sprightly indie pop and drowsy, woebegone folk.
:: Opener "Shame Magic in the Night Galley" takes a ginger step
:: towards ebullient pop but it's reserved and simplistic sound
:: portends the downcast mood swing to come. "Watch the Skies /
:: A Boy's Life" follows the tradition of "Bridge Over Troubled
:: Water" both musically and lyrically, though cumbersome images
:: of Arthurian adventure convolute its message: "Let's smash
:: the magic wonder window...in the halls of Abel's fault." I
:: mean, the stagnant melody's uninspiring enough, but who'd
:: actually rally around the credo "Snuff the mortal
:: candelabra's light"?
::
:: Luckily tracks like "Destroyer of the West" and "Satanic
:: Blood" stand as the white knights in this tale. The former
:: features Elliott Smith/Cass McCombs hybrid vocals coupled
:: with jangly guitar almost slow enough to pass as shoegazer.
:: Yeah, "Satanic Blood" is another "Just Like Heaven"
:: permutation, but Scott's raspy vocals greatly contrasts
:: Robert Smith's, and these days who isn't hitching ersatz Cure
:: tracks to their albums for good measure? After all, immediacy
:: like this makes Scott's seven-minute doldrums somewhat worth
:: the wait. However, while fantastical lyrics and Lord of the
:: Rings settings may buy you time when ideas are lacking, as
:: Scott himself sings, add too much filler and "the hexagon and
:: necroworm won't wait."
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:: Buy it if you like it!!
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