Lord Mandrake - The Best Of All Possible Worlds (2009)

Genre: Psychedelic,Folk,Indie,Shoegaze YAY!!!
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Tracklist

01 Se Me Subió El Muerto
02 Kolob
03 Frozen Stiff in the Weeds
04 Raskolnikov
05 Faraday's Brand New Pants
06 Losing My Mind
07 Oh Lord My Sun is Gone
08 Sorry to Bother
09 Interlude
10 Radiosonde
11 Recluse
12 Fibromyalgia

"Lord Mandrake are old souls housed in youthful bodies making slightly melancholy, slightly mischievous music. Following their 2008 EP Dreamer, The Best of All Possible Worlds speaks to a generation raised on Wes Anderson, McSweeney’s and similar post-modern irony. But the LP is equally seeped in classic folk and psychedelic rock, with lush piano crashing down around teeth-baring lyrics: “Misanthropes chattering over wars being fought on someone else’s ground/I hope I’ll see the day when you’re consumed by the ones you have fed.” The first track off Worlds even nods to the spaghetti-Western instrumentals of Spindrift, its jangly guitar eventually culminating as a searing fireball of energy that’s sustained throughout the record. It’s a stunning sophomore effort contained in intricately screen-printed packaging." - SL Weekly