Doleful
Lions - Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum
 Artist:
Doleful Lions
Title: Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum
Catalog#: Parasol-CD-098
Regular Price: $10.00
|
Tracks
on this CD: |
| Sham
Magic In The Night Gallery |
Watch
The Skies/A Boys Life |
| Strange
Vibrations |
| O
Martyr Atlantis |
| Destroyers
Of The West |
| The
Ghost That Haunts Your World Will Disappear |
| Satanic
Blood |
| Tommy
Tells Of Ghost Ships |
| Slip
Inside This Gateway |
| The
Extra Large Epiphany |
|
|
|
|
 |
The sound of dreams, and of course, nightmares, continues on
Doleful Lions’ fifth album, ‘Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum’.
Now paired down to a doleful duo, Chicago denizen Jonathan Scott
(songs, singing) and North Carolinian Dave Jackson (antique
gadgets, studio wizarding) have turned out yet another lo-fi
masterpiece: beautiful, ornate songs paired with unsettling
subject matter. ‘Shade Lodge And Mausoleum’, like
Doleful Lions’ albums before it, is home to grandiose
psychedelia, winsome guitar pop, and death-metal-esque lyrical
twists, haunted by tape-hiss poltergeists and sundry historical
demons. Equal parts bedroom melancholy and comic book bravado.
Not quite as sunshiny as previous efforts, with harmonies and
occult whimsies replaced with stark folk atmospheres (think
Incredible String Band, John Martyn, and Nick Drake) and songs
about suicide cults, satanic rites, and suicide (think late
80s bay area black metal band Von, who released a demo called
Satanic Blood, which Jonathan worships).
Reviews
for Doleful
Lions previous releases...
GEAR
MAGAZINE:
"Prodigiously
smart, criminally catchy indie pop"
CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES:
"Doleful Lions make a rather
gorgeous whisper of sound; guitars picking out starlight bathed
in swathes
of keyboards; a rolling
distant thunder of drums and voices that tiptoe… It’s
vaguely psychedelic, where thankfully the psychedelia is more
the gentle thrill of Sagittarius than, say, the electric overdose
and histrionics of a Hendrix or Cream. This is rock that doesn’t
rock at all, but sways, lost in summer breezes and the mythology
of Smile bootlegs."
UNCUT MAGAZINE:
"Sixties revisited by modern-day
spacers. This is what The Beach Boys’ 20/20 might have sounded like if you heard it under
sedation… A must for wanderers, tender souls and those
who like to look at the world with a lazy smile through a light
layer of mist."
BIG TAKEOVER:
"Imagine if Guided
By Voices’s
Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout went camping and toasted marshmallows
with The Olivia
Tremor Control while listening to worn-out Bob Dylan 8-tracks
in the background, and you’ll get an appreciation for
the Lion’s homebrew. The band’s deliberate inclusion
of surface noise and other home-recorded embellishments adds
even more weirdness to Song Cyclops’ supernatural musings
and surreal charisma. A totally absorbing listen."
|
