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Idle Tigers
12+ albums
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The second Idle Tigers album, Persisting Like a Racehorse, is available now. This recording is a collection of song-stories in the poisoned pastoral mode, performed on rustic synthesizers with vocals recently described as sounding like "the world's most nervous person". The debut album, 'The Spirit Salon' is available on iTunes. From 'The Ideal Tiger' "The Spirit Salon is a sociable gathering of several centuries’ worth of spirit voices, speaking achronologically of times spent as story-tellers and ballad-sellers, MIDIeval wanderers and have-a-go heroes, TV personalities and housebound mugs. The salon is a civilised and domestic environment. The spirits who attend have been summoned from public, outdoor realms: the open sea, the Houses of Parliament, Edwardian garden parties, the musical theatre, and English Civil War battlefields." http://myspace.com/idletigers http://idletigers.wordpress.com According to Jonny Opinion: "You may unearth a joke where you least expect to. Idle Tigers - a sham? - I know him (them) as Ross, which rhymes with dust, the most part being the sound of empty space, which too rhymes with dust (it was Ross who originally taught me that everything rhymes) which is my earliest memory of Ross, who rhymes with Huysmans, Brel, Byron, Bacon, fake, fact, fad, gadget. There might be a song here called “A Shadow Falls Across the Fridge, Frank” and if so, that’s my fault, because Idle Tigers is the sound of the concrete made ridiculous, disguised as not
top songs
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How Scrap Became The First Point of Contact
2732Treat Me Like A Fairy
1693Every Young Lad Needs Mates
1634My Girlfriend Was Insulted By A Futurist Artist
555The Shadow Falls Across The Fridge, Frank
496Prologue
307Unlace Me Behind The Hedge
268Put Your Trousers On
249Giving Up The Ghost
2410Lord Byron's Marriage
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