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Doleful LionsReviewsSong Cyclops Volume One (CD) ParasolDoleful Lions' Jonathon Scott rises to the challenge "How lo can you go?" with a recording so lo-fi that you can often hear the stop button being pressed on the tape recorder at the end of the songs. Of the twenty two tracks those which are based around acoustic guitars and vocals, such as My Summer With Ghosts, cope best within the signficant limitations of the sound quality. One thing that the constraints of such lo-fi recording can't obscure is the quality of the highly melodic, though deliberately quirky, songwriting. This quirkiness is best indicated by the comic book nature of song titles like Spacecraft Marooned In The Gorillaworld and Sparks Fly For Magnemite, indeed these two are amongst the album's finest moments, along with the unlikely Bob Dylan pastiche The Red Top Lounge Flesheaters. |
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