Fantasy World, by Lilacs & Champagne

Fantasy World

by Lilacs & Champagne

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woe_bonnet I can't stop listening. Ripping 80's guitar licks, crystal synths, and voices held aloft on a Blackmoor meets pulp-Cthulhu cosmic dread conveyor... gah!!! Even if you didn't grab a copy just for the incredible album art - which you should - then get it for the utter zoo alphabet of exceptional tunes found within. Just awesome. Thanks, L+C!!! Favorite track: Ordinary Man.

c o n j u r back when Grails NEVER played shows in Portland, I was blessed to catch a handful of L&C shows and was able to get lost in a bliss I thought I would never get the chance to experience. 10ish years later this incredible project shines ecstatic light on me once again. Thank you Alex and thank you Emos. AOTY

Old James Somehow Lilacs & Champagne continue to refine and exceed their own level of perfection, sending us down the most inventive and gratifying sonic pathways for a world that mostly ignores them and is forever in their debt Favorite track: Ill Gotten Gains.

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1.	Ill Gotten Gains 02:48	buy track
2.	Rude Dream 03:12	buy track
3.	Fantasy Land 02:18	buy track
4.	Melissa 02:36	buy track
5.	Betraying Yourself 02:44	buy track
6.	Ready Rubbed Blue 02:03	buy track
7.	Evil Has No Boundaries 02:41	buy track
8.	No More Sherry 02:58	buy track
9.	Gentle Man 02:30	buy track
10.	Leprotic Phantasies 02:05	buy track
11.	144 York Way 02:39	buy track
12.	Last Frontier 02:15	buy track
13.	Dr. Why 03:13	buy track
14.	Ordinary Man 04:08	buy track

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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 both transcendent and traumatic.

Despite sharing two founding members of Grails (multi-instrumentalists Emil Amos and Alex Hall) Fantasy World only peripherally resembles their core group. Its most somber tracks, such as “Dr. Why” and “Last Frontier,” approach the morbid loneliness of the beloved Grails series, Black Tar Prophecies. But Lilacs & Champagne have exaggerated their early record's implications and accelerated their mercurial rearranging of music history by deftly incorporating live instrumentation and samples with equal amounts of deference and disregard.

Previously existing primarily in a realm adjacent to instrumental hip-hop (J Dilla, Clams Casino, Madlib), Fantasy World exposes Lilacs & Champagne’s deeper lineage as playful tape-collage culture jammers in the vein of legendary sound satirists, Negativland and Severed Heads. It embraces the effect of a child entering a dollar store: the immediate euphoria felt upon discovering the seemingly endless aisles piled impossibly high with novelty toys, utensils, party decorations, and toiletries eventually gives way to the overwhelming realization that they’re actually just a tourist in a perilous mountain of colorful garbage. From those mountains, Lilacs & Champagne mold monuments to curiosity and confusion.

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released July 19, 2024

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Nearly a decade after their last album, Lilacs and Champagne pick 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 both transcendent and traumatic. ... more

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