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The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton by Clogs

The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton

Release Date: 3/2/2010

Recording Date: 3/2010

Tracks: 10

Length: 01:24:34 Hrs

Label: Brassland

Type: CD

Guest Artists:
Vojtech Havel, Aaron Dessner, Ha-Yang Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Irena Havel, Sue Newsome, Kyle Resnick, Matt Berninger, Shara Worden, Osso String Quartet, Luca Tarantino, Michael Atkinson
Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Ambient, Alternative Pop/Rock, Experimental, Post-Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Electronic

Album Tracks (10)

Song Title
Length
1.
Cocodrillo
01:50
2.
I Used To Do
04:35
3.
On the Edge
04:01
4.
Red Seas
06:13
5.
The Owl of Love
04:11
6.
Adages of Cleansing
05:53
7.
Last Song
03:59
8.
To Hugo
04:26
9.
Raise the Flag
02:48
10.
We Were Here
04:21

What the Critics Say

The Clogs fifth full-length release builds on the avant-garde chamber ensemble’s foundation of kaleidoscopic, indie-classical instrumentals by adding equally unpredictable lyrics and vocals. Multi-instrumentalist Padma Newsome, who composed all of the songs during a 2005 residency at Italy’s botanical island paradise, Giardini La Mortella, has crafted a typically labyrinthine and cinematic collection of disparate melodies that draw inspiration from wells all over the world. The quartet is aided in this venture by a trio of guest vocalists including Sufjan Stevens and Matt Berninger (The National), but more specifically, opera singer-turned indie rocker Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond), who appears on six of the ten songs that make up Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton. Like all Clogs releases, Lady Walton defies simple description. There are moments of impossible beauty (“Owl of Love”), dense, but structured dissonance (“Adages of Cleansing”), and of course, whimsical, classically minded, indie folk (“On the Edge”), that when consumed all together, feel like a perfectly executed mash-up of Aaron Copland, Dead Can Dance, Bill Frisell, and Shirley Collins. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi

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