The CD comes as a limited numbered edition of 200 in a beautiful Stuart Medley designed 4 panel gatefold with insert. All CD orders come with an immediate download of the album.After years of producing Guided By Voices, playing in Circus Devils with Robert Pollard, and helping to create the music for Pollard’s solo albums, Todd Tobias is striking out on his own with his debut solo album. Defiantly unique and vividly realised,
Medicine Show is a multi-faceted instrumental opus, evoking a shadowy steampunk dystopia. By turns nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful, the three-dimensional musical universe that Tobias conjures across 40 minutes is totally addictive.
From the dark GBV-esque groove of ‘Night of the Club Foot’, through the gaseous synths of ‘Pre-Dawn Visitation’, evoking a hallucinogen-fuelled walk among a misty moon-lit forest, to the visceral lurch of single ‘Manatoc Enters The City / The Long Fall’,
Medicine Show plays out like the soundtrack to a Terry Gilliam movie starring Tom Waits, each song a totally immersive scene, leading inexorably into the next.
Track Listing:
- Night of the Clubfoot Preview
- Manatoc is Born Preview
- Half Animal Preview
- Pre-Dawn Visitation Preview
- The Children Follow Preview
- Clubfoot’s Return Preview
- Shadows with Teeth Preview
- Flesh Interval Preview
- Asmodaeus and the Unlucky Traveler Preview
- The Pathfinder Preview
- Burial Mound Preview
- Medicine Show Preview
- Manatoc Enters the City / The Long Fall Preview
- Death Watch Preview
- Fanfare of the Impalers Preview
- Prayers to a Blind Sky Preview
Cat#: HSR091
