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Loss and Time Past haunt this beautiful album like muffled footfalls in an empty old house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Lyndon, if it's not about poetry (the shorthand of the heart) and great tunes it's probably just a career move. In earlier bands, Lyndon used to yelp his stuff in front of Marshall-stacks and big fuck-off bass-bins, but with Songdog he changed tack and sold his gold-top Les Paul for a Martin. There's as much attitude in his songs as ever, only now it's murmured sotto voce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyndon reveres Leonard Cohen, James Joyce, Joni Mitchell, Samuel Beckett, Tom Waits, Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan and Emile Cioran best (plus Roy Orbison and Franz Kafka, the Beatles and Baudelaire). As commented by \u003cstrong\u003eUncut\u003c\/strong\u003e, Songdog's \"dislocated, defiant and erotic songs echo [their] principal influences - Brel, the Beat poets, Dylan, Leonard Cohen - without compromising the often startling originality of [their] own vision.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eOne Day When God Begs My Forgiveness\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eThe Republic Of Howlin' Wolf\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eChildhood Skies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eFairytale\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eJinetera\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eJanie Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eMy Space Rock Tape\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eJerusalem Road\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eThe Waitress From Yorkville, Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eThe Time Of Summer Lightning\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eThe Sky Was So Blue It Was Scary\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"tracklist_track_title\"\u003eSouvenir\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"OLI Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":48381182869737,"sku":"TPLP473CD","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/7984\/3305\/files\/Songdog_-_The_Time_Of_Summer_Lighting.jpg?v=1750956092"},{"product_id":"songdog-a-wretched-sinners-song","title":"Songdog - A Wretched Sinner's Song","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Wretched Sinner's Song is the band's fourth album release and the follow-up to their critically acclaimed album The Time Of Summer Lightning, released in 2005. If all three previous albums were award-winning playwright and Songdog frontman Lyndon Morgans's attempt to escape his Welsh heritage, the former black sheep from introspective mining town Blackwood has gone full circle, with A Wretched Sinner's Song an altogether more reflective and confessional piece of work. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith fans varying from John Kennedy on XFM to Jonathan Ross on Radio 2, and with Bruce Springsteen previously using Songdog music to announce his arrival on stage, the band have developed a loyal following in the UK and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith A Wretched Sinner's Song, the listener is taken through a deeper, darker musical experience. Heavily sensual, ferally romantic, the album conjures the densely populated world of drifters, drunks, psychotics, sad loners and wistful dreamers. The making of the album involved a very personal journey for Lyndon, who, whilst researching where he was from as background to the music he was writing, found out that he was adopted. His long-lost sister was one of the pouting, bass-playing models in Robert Palmer's iconic video for 'Addicted To Love'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLyndon formed Songdog in 2000 with childhood best friend and musical foil, Karl Woodward, and Scottish multi-instrumentalist Dave Paterson, though all had arrived independently arrived in London to start their musical journey towards the end of the 70s, just as punk grabbed the collective consciousness by the throat. That punk mentality remains a part of Songdog's sense of self, even when making an acoustic-based album such as this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother part is constituted by the uncompromising, explicit lyricism, challenging the rose-tinted world of mainstream pop. Lyndon is someone who likes to break with convention. Finding himself between bands in the early 90s he made his first serious attempt at writing a play, Water Music, which told the story of a group of fairground prostitutes in the 60s. Despite one of the judges binning the play instantly, feeling it strayed across the border from art into porn, one of the backroom girls at the theatre rescued it, read it, loved it and demanded a re-reading by the panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was eventually awarded the Verity Bargate Award for Best New Play. A monologue he wrote, Conte de Fées, written entirely in French, also managed to upset the judges of the Radio France Internationale Awards for Best New Short Stories when they discovered, after handing Lyndon the Award, that he was Welsh and not remotely French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAct 1: Love Lust\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Ruben's Tattoo\u003cbr\u003e2. Crown Of Thorns\u003cbr\u003e3. 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Lives fade away like a half-heard murmur behind the curtain in the cinema on a Saturday afternoon, love disappears in a taxi on a rainy night, they're \"growing old in a snakepit\", yet the old punk spirit, realigned for modern times, remains intact in the uncompromising, explicit lyricism of A Life Eroding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComing from Blackwood in South Wales, Songdog combine acoustic and electronic instruments to create soundscapes for singer-songwriter (and award-winning playwright) Lyndon Morgans's vignettes on life, love and loss. Songdog's preceding efforts, 2008's A Wretched Sinner's Song and 2005's The Time Of Summer Lightning, received great reviews and plays on Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show and John Kennedy's XFM show amongst others. 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