The Gorey End

Kronos Quartet, Tiger Lillies - The Gorey End

The Gorey End
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Artist: Kronos Quartet, Tiger Lillies
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2003-09-16
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Hipdeep Family Intro
  2. ABC
  3. Weeping Chandelier
  4. Jesus on the Windshield
  5. Besotted Mother
  6. Gin
  7. Learned Pig
  8. Hertha Strubb
  9. Dreadful Domesticity
  10. QRV
  11. Histoire de Kay
  12. Trampled Lilly
  13. Hipdeep Family

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Free Music Review: Wicked lunacy, and yet surprizingly moving at times... A true oddity.
Hit: 5 Stars

It was in the summer of 2003 that I first came across this CD in a small stationary gift shop, stacked near a pile of Edward Gorey calendars and postcards. Out of curiousity I dedcided to give it a listen...and, upon hearing the high-pitched falsetto shrieks of lead singer Martin Jacques, I at first was convinced I had wasted my money. How wrong I was. The Tiger Lillies are not for everyone, but damn, once you start really listening to them, and accept their vocal stylings on their own terms, they are pretty addictive. I soon became hooked.

THE GOREY END is perhaps the most accessible of the groups' work, second only to their remarkable, highly acclaimed SHOCKHEADED PETER stage tour and album. Other albums from the Tiger Lillies are usually much more vulgar and demented (a fact that may please even more people), but GOREY END gives listeners a variety of Edward Gorey-inspired songs that range from outlandish ("Jesus on a Windshield") to darkly hilarious ("ABC", reminiscient of Gorey's classic "Gashlycrumb Tinies" stories), to whimsically tragi-comic ("Hipdeep Family" and especially "Trampled Lilly"). For me, the best song of the bunch is "Learned Pig" -- a tale of a pig who learns to read, and meets a bittersweet end. Jacques gives it a heartfelt and mournful delivery, and it is surprisingly moving as well as satirical. (I managed to see Jacques perform this very song at a Los Angeles club last year, and it was the grandstanding moment of the whole show.)

THE GOREY END is a perfect album for fans of both the late Edward Gorey, as well as offbeat, cabaret-style music. The Tiger Lillies have garnered fervent fans across the globe, but in many ways, they still seem like an undiscovered treasure.
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