Lilacs & Champagne- Fantasy World (Vinyl) Jerry LegerNearly a decade after their last album, Lilacs and Champagne picks up right where that record, Midnight Features Vol. 2: Made Flesh, left off. With bizarre excursions into pillowy, sentimental made for TV music and children's choirs incanting the blackest dread filled music the band has conjured to date Fantasy World is both transcendent and traumatic. Despite sharing two founding members of Grails (multi instrumentalists Emil Amos and Alex Hall)
It's fitting that he saves one of his best vocal performances for last
" an end-credits song featuring guest verses from rapper Pharoahe Monch
distorted instrumentation and experimental techniques that have shaped his music to date
The Disciples Of Soul - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
just as a shark would do
" "Lester's Blues
Is She Really going Out With Him
all in a short window
When The Night Comes
Savannah Smiles
The End of Your Suffering
the latter with the Izmir Symphony Orchestra