Attack Of The Grey Lantern

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Written in the form of a letter from the transvestite vicar to his daughter, it sort of deepens the plot of the album’s narrative a bit before it’s all resolved on the final track, Dark Mavis.

I wouldn't have a cape, but there are definitely characters on the record – Albert Taxloss, Chad, Dark Mavis. Although this song sat neatly with the narrative of the plot, I thought I’d challenge my own rule on this song, I remember the chorus being really emotional, and it still feels like that now.

Created in May 2008 to provide a home for the growing post-progressive genre and an evolving, flexible and adventurous style of music without boundaries. Throughout the album, the hero encounters a number of immoral inhabitants in a fictional English village. There aren't that many metal artists or albums that I care for that much, but ISIS is certainly a band that I do enjoy a lot. This remix was included on Oakenfold's compilation Resident: Two Years of Oakenfold at Cream, as an indicator of being one of the most played songs at major UK nightclub Cream, as well as in nightclubs around the world, over the 1997–1999 period.

He kept a record of the original vocal that is now being released on the outtakes CD and listening back he was right. Here at NME, we deemed it the 44th best album of 1997 in our end of year list (and there was stiff competition that year, believe us).

I dont have the album in any other format and dont really know it that well so cant compare but compared to my admittedly small collection of picture discs this is comfortably the best. Listening back to the lyrics I’m reeling off characters from the fictitious small northern town where the album is set, ‘Skinima Nosebreak’ ‘Fatima Toothpaste’ ‘Penelope Cheapskate’ ‘Claudia Farmgate’, not your average lyric for the era really and still makes me chuckle to this day that something so absurd hit No.

The Kscope label has acquired the band's impressive catalogue and are creating a deluxe reissue series that delves into a treasure trove of previously unreleased audio and visual material.Attack of the Grey Lantern is the debut album by English alternative rock band Mansun released on 17 February 1997 via Parlophone. After a lot of head scratching it was cut down to seven minutes for the album and finally to a three minute radio track to accompany the fantastic promo video shot by Roman Coppola. This was the earliest song I wrote for the album, you can tell from the lyric it’s from an earlier, more naive me.