Indisciplined Lucy – About The Black Eyed Girl Genre:Rock Style: Prog Rock, Art Rock 1999
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A group from Uppsala, Sweden with an attractive, personal album.Indisciplined Lucy were Pelle Lindroth on vocals/guitar, Mikael Eriksson on guitar, Jakob Luttinger on bass, Arvid Nerdal on keyboards, Elías Unge on drums/percussion, Gunnar Oestman on violin and Lisa Fagius on cello.They recorded an EP entitled ''The clown'' for the Swedish label Step One Records, but due to its failure their plans for their already prepared debut album were cancelled.The group moved to Stockholm, reputedly exploring new musical directions, but a couple of years later they decided this work was too good to remain closed in a drawer.As Angular Records was interested in their work since 1997, the release of ''About the black eyed girl'' became true in 1999 through their branch-label RectAngular Records.
This was a concept album about a girl named Lucy, who was convinced that she had the power to change the world and the group dressed the story with narrations and singing parts following the concept.Soundwise Indisciplined Lucy were a rather strange albeit a pretty original group.Their vocalist Pelle Lindroth sings all the way in a very theatrical style akin to the more respectable Neo Prog acts of this singing style, while some delicate melodies contained follow also the same mood.But the style of the band went far beyond this approach.The presence of a cellist and a violinist introduced plenty of Sympho elements, but not in the typical prog way, rather in a very Chamber Music style with extended string arrangements and lush orchestrations set over Lindroth's voice.Eventually the album obtains a very fairy-tale atmosphere, which passes between smooth Classical-drenched themes, guitar-led Progressive Rock and more melodic textures, basically headed by Lindroth's ability to offer dreamy and expressive vocals.
(00:00) 01. Theatre
(06:28) 02. About The Clown
(11:19) 03. Water
(15:42) 04. Lucylove
(21:16) 05. The Beautyfulizer
(25:32) 06. Miracle
(32:26) 07. Interlude
(33:41) 08. The Marionettes
(38:30) 09. The Age Of Lucylove Has Come
(40:01) 10. Lucy Enters The Sunmachine
(44:14) 11. Malenka
(52:24) 12. Epilogue
(57:48) 13. Resistance (Bonus Track)
Arranged By [Strings Arranged By] – Mikael Eriksson (2), Pelle Lindroth
Bass – Jakob Luttinger
Cello – Lisa Fagius
Engineer – Anders Jansson, Niclas Bergström*
Engineer [Guitars Engineered By] – Thomas Hedqvist*
Executive-Producer – Daniel Stephan (2), Stefan H. Kost
Guitar – Mikael Eriksson (2)
Keyboards – Arvid Nerdal
Mastered By – Henrik Lindahl
Mixed By – Niclas Bergström*
Percussion – Elias Unge
Photography By [All Clown Photos And 'Malenka' Picture By] – Birgit Kremer-Stephan
Photography By [All Lucy Photos By] – Zodiak (14)
Producer – Gunnar Östman, Niclas Bergström*
Remastered By – Reinhard Bauer (tracks: 13)
Violin – Gunnar Östman
Vocals, Guitar – Pelle Lindroth
This was a concept album about a girl named Lucy, who was convinced that she had the power to change the world and the group dressed the story with narrations and singing parts following the concept.Soundwise Indisciplined Lucy were a rather strange albeit a pretty original group.Their vocalist Pelle Lindroth sings all the way in a very theatrical style akin to the more respectable Neo Prog acts of this singing style, while some delicate melodies contained follow also the same mood.But the style of the band went far beyond this approach.The presence of a cellist and a violinist introduced plenty of Sympho elements, but not in the typical prog way, rather in a very Chamber Music style with extended string arrangements and lush orchestrations set over Lindroth's voice.Eventually the album obtains a very fairy-tale atmosphere, which passes between smooth Classical-drenched themes, guitar-led Progressive Rock and more melodic textures, basically headed by Lindroth's ability to offer dreamy and expressive vocals.
(00:00) 01. Theatre
(06:28) 02. About The Clown
(11:19) 03. Water
(15:42) 04. Lucylove
(21:16) 05. The Beautyfulizer
(25:32) 06. Miracle
(32:26) 07. Interlude
(33:41) 08. The Marionettes
(38:30) 09. The Age Of Lucylove Has Come
(40:01) 10. Lucy Enters The Sunmachine
(44:14) 11. Malenka
(52:24) 12. Epilogue
(57:48) 13. Resistance (Bonus Track)
Arranged By [Strings Arranged By] – Mikael Eriksson (2), Pelle Lindroth
Bass – Jakob Luttinger
Cello – Lisa Fagius
Engineer – Anders Jansson, Niclas Bergström*
Engineer [Guitars Engineered By] – Thomas Hedqvist*
Executive-Producer – Daniel Stephan (2), Stefan H. Kost
Guitar – Mikael Eriksson (2)
Keyboards – Arvid Nerdal
Mastered By – Henrik Lindahl
Mixed By – Niclas Bergström*
Percussion – Elias Unge
Photography By [All Clown Photos And 'Malenka' Picture By] – Birgit Kremer-Stephan
Photography By [All Lucy Photos By] – Zodiak (14)
Producer – Gunnar Östman, Niclas Bergström*
Remastered By – Reinhard Bauer (tracks: 13)
Violin – Gunnar Östman
Vocals, Guitar – Pelle Lindroth