Lilacs & Champagne - Fantasy WorldThe first new album from Lilacs & Champagne in nearly a decade. Features members of Grails, Om, Holy Sons, Zombi, and NickeL Plated. Nearly 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

“I was living in a small apartment and I’d stripped down my studio set-up when I was recording this album

The album was the band’s breakthrough moment and featured the hit singles Race for the Prize and Waitin’ for a Superman

Even if the underlying theme of this collection is one of conflict or unhappiness

There’s obscurity and unity in the instrumentation and identities of the players

which used to be a dentist's office

Side 2 - Track 1

The “Dark Romanticism” edition

Faten Kanaan - Rêve-Rivière

while musicians recreated these original classic foundation Studio One rhythms

The 10-track album has been a long time coming – the five-piece first came together in Brighton at the end of 2015 and released their debut EP the following year

dizzy with its offerings

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