Idle Tigers Spirit Salon CD

Idle Tigers is Ross Hawkins. Momus writes "Hawkins seems to be a young man suffused with delicate, carefully-structured lust, a neo-Victorian from Bradford, England who's relocated - possibly for the purpose of study - to Toronto, Canada. The world of his songs, though, has stayed rooted in England, or rather, the imaginary, filtered England that rises up in the spirit of an exile, replacing the reality with something more mythical. Here Lewis Carroll meets Brian Eno, and music hall meets the avant garde.

1. Prologue 2. The Shadow Falls Across the Fridge, Frank 3. Giving Up the Ghost 4. My Girlfriend Was Insulted By a Futurist Artist 5. Put Your Trousers on 6. Treat Me Like a Fairy 7. Catfish 8. Jonah 9. The Wanderer 10. The Small Electrical Lieutenant 11. Every Young Lad Needs Mates 12. Organ Grinders 13. Barnaby's Visit 14. Uncle Me Behind the Hedge 15. Light Entertainer in Prison 16. Lord Byron's Marriage