Song Cyclops, Vol. 1

Song Cyclops, Vol. 1 Artist: Doleful Lions
Label: Parasol Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 795306106029
EAN: 0795306106029
ASIN: B00004YNH9


Release Date: 2002-01-01

Song Cyclops, Vol. 1


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Tracks:

  1. Charles Starkweather Vs. Sasquatch
  2. My Summer With Ghosts
  3. Gimghoul Numerologist
  4. Spacecraft Marooned In The Gorillaworld
  5. The Red Top Lounge Flesheaters
  6. Demon Sounds
  7. Hercules In The Haunted World
  8. Sung Swan Song
  9. Now You're A Witch!
  10. Turkish Star Wars
  11. Sparks Fly For Magnemite
  12. We Three Kings Of Orient Are
  13. Contact Beyond The Mirror Room
  14. A Walk In The Sun
  15. Deep Inside The Genie's Lamp
  16. Chinese Rockets
  17. Baptized In Bees
  18. Jamie Conjures Demons
  19. Breather Bulls
  20. The Marauding Ghouls
  21. Goodnight, Graceland
  22. Charles Starkweather Versus Sasquatch

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Shimmering Jangling Guitars Never Ached So Good.......2005-10-16

No gimmicks, no slick recording features--just pure melancholy beautiful melodies flowing like honey with a wall of jangling guitar sound. I wasn't prepared to like this album so much. It creates the same yearning and ache I experienced listening to the Trashcan Sinatras back in 1990 when they released their masterpiece "Cake." Other influences: Bob Dylan on the first track, Pernice Brothers, and Elliot Smith. One complaint: The recording is muffled and there is a tearing sound in the middle of the song titled "Turkish Star Wars." Nevertheless, I'm going out on a limb and proclaiming this album a classic. If you like this shimmering pastoral folk sound, you might check out the aforementioned bands plus Ronderlin, Radio Dept., Blueboy, Lovejoy, Pugwash, Arco, Foxgloves, and the Snowdrops.

5 out of 5 stars Are you illuminated?.......2001-12-25

OK. Many of you might not have heard of this band and it's a shame. The Doleful Lions have put out three consistently good albums over the past 4 years and this one's the best. Granted, I am the brother of the band's leader and I even used to rock out with him, but it's still excellent. I especially love the "enhanced" version of "We 3 Kings of Orient Are." If you don't know what I mean by enhanced then I guess you ain't illuminated. Seriously, I would love this album even if I didn't have to because he's my bro. Fans of GBV or Unrest or Thomas Paine would really dig this. Intelligent, catchy, and funny (with a little creepiness thrown in for openers). Best cuts: "A Walk in the Sun" "Sparks Fly For Magnemite!" "Gimghoul Numerologist" Bad Cuts: "Red-Top Lounge Flesheaters" (Sorry, brohemia).

5 out of 5 stars I am the Artist.......2000-12-06

These recordings were done over the period of about 3 months, originally conceived as demos for a proper single LP, the band and myself thought these "demos" were great the way they were. The rest of the band contributed various instruments and voices. We feel very good about the finished product, and I enjoy listening to it from time to time. The record is a conceptual "song cycle" orginally a 44 song two CD set. The other half "Song Cyclops Volume Two" might be released someday. We are currently working on material for a studio LP called "Out Like A Lamb". Reserve preconceptions, shake off your conscience and enjoy "Song Cyclops". Jonathan Scott Doleful Lions

4 out of 5 stars Another interesting departure.......2000-10-24

Chapel Hill, North Carolina's Doleful Lions are quickly becoming one of the most stylistically inconsistent bands around, and their third album, SONG CYCLOPS VOLUME ONE, is as different from its lushly pretty predecessor, THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE!, as that album had been from the standard-issue indiepop of their debut, MOTEL SWIM. Recorded in singer/songwriter Jonathan Scott's living room, these 22 songs are all built around Scott's rough-edged solo voice and guitar performances, to which the other Lions later added minimal backing (vocal harmonies, tinny synths, tape effects, occasional drums, etc.). The murky results are somewhere beyond both lo-fi and Elephant 6-style homemade psychedelia, sounding like Guided By Voices after prolonged exposure to Neutral Milk Hotel.

The one thread tying SONG CYCLOPS to the Doleful Lions' previous records is Scott's increasingly bizarre lyrics, populated with pop-culture fringe characters like Liberace, psychic Edgar Cayce and `50s serial killer Charles Starkweather. Scott's lyrics are front and center throughout; indeed, the record's only flaw is that there aren't quite enough cool sonic touches like the keyboards-and-tape-hiss arrangement of "Gimghoul Numerologist" and the delicate overdubbed harmonies and chiming 12-string acoustic guitars of "Breather Bulls."

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