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Roomful of Lions
National Eye
Roomful of Lions
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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"National Eye plays hypnotic pop that's relentless with catchy, cleverly repetitive lines, both instrumental and vocal." - TAPE OP National Eye's ambitious second album, Roomful of Lions, is a cathedral of color, noise ...  more »

     
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All Artists: National Eye
Title: Roomful of Lions
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Park the Van Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 2/14/2006
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 723721180553, 723271180553, 829410637053

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"National Eye plays hypnotic pop that's relentless with catchy, cleverly repetitive lines, both instrumental and vocal." - TAPE OP National Eye's ambitious second album, Roomful of Lions, is a cathedral of color, noise & conversation - fractured human history mixed with fractured human relations. Where their debut was dense, Lions is expansive, providing a grander sonic architecture for the band's songs, which offer a more nuanced and ambiguous moral universe. Subjects range from Marvel comics and a childhood bully to a mutinous Nazi plot to assassinate Hitler. No matter how far out they go, the songs are of a piece and describe a world not too dissimilar from our own, full of passion, death, birds, thieves, love and "men who casino." Some of Philadelphia's greatest musical persons appear on Lions - Dr. Dog's Scott McMicken, Eliza Hardy of the gorgeous Buried Beds, Chicago transplant Janet "Evil Janet" Kim, and two of the geniuses behind Like Moving Insects: Todd Starlin and Joshua Marcus.

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The sounds and the lyrics
T. R. Bergen | San Diego CA | 03/13/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This record is mezmorizing, the complexity of its sound and the unexpected melodic interludes and the lyrics make me keep Roomful of Lions in the player long after I usually change to something new. If you listen to nothing else listen to Halo and Waves of Love. I tell everybody about this record - where did it come from?"