BOB DRAKE: Lawn Ornaments

Jul 232014

After Bob’s Drive-In, which, in terms of production was quite restrained and minimal, Ornaments sets off in the opposite direction, piling up great car-crashes of overlapping fragments in a production that makes rococo look like shaker minimalism. Playing only drums, guitars, bass, banjo, fiddle, organ, trumpet and piano Bob herds tamed cataclysms of musical debris into the shapes of coherent – if episodic – songs, en route skipping through half a century of recording history. As to method well, you can’t beat a year of work. The CD comes with a beautifully illustrated booklet that includes all the song texts as well as eighteen commissioned drawings by the meticulous fine-artist Joe Mruk. Extraordinary music, intriguingly wrapped… DOWNLOAD WHOLE ALBUM: MP3 – £6.99 FLAC – £9.99 File Type : Buy album as CD (£12.50 POST FREE)		TRACK PRICE: MP3: £0.70p\|FLAC: £1.00
		1.Lawn Ornaments	`listen:` - :
		2. What’s Happened To Your Meerkat?	`listen:` - :
		3. To The Sphinx	`listen:` - :
		4. Park Of The Mysteries	`listen:` - :
		5. Elsie	`listen:` - :
		6. Fix My Machine	`listen:` - :
		7. The Lonely Manor	`listen:` - :
		8. Hyena Hot Springs	`listen:` - :
		9. Perpetual Lamps	`listen:` - :
		10. Let’s Go To The Marvelous Land	`listen:` - :
		11. Agents Of Decay	`listen:` - :
		12. X-ray Fruitful Plain	`listen:` - :
		13. Why Why Why Not?	`listen:` - :
		14. Wolf Nose Knows Nose	`listen:` - :
		15. Our Expert’s Advice	`listen:` - :
		16. Don’t Worry	`listen:` - :