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National Eye
Roomful of Lions
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Ag 1
2. Juno 3
3. Bird & Sword
4. Silver Agers
5. Lights
6. Halo
7. Theft
8. Invisible Raincoat
9. Drowned in Bed
10. Left out Dynamite
11. Abwehr
12. The Switch
13. Waves of Love
14. Casimir
15. Ag 2

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CD Details

All Artists: National Eye
Title: Roomful of Lions
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
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

Synopsis

Album Description

"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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CD Reviews

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?"