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LINKS [AB-OC-04] KITCHEN CYNICS - Parallel Dog Days  CD only SALE! $9 USA; $12 World 1. The Turnstone [MP3] 2. The Place You Hid 3. Iridium 4. Another Little Death 5. Chinese Whispers 6. The King & Queen of Belmont Street 7. At Villa E.1027 (Eileen Gray reflects) 8. North of Balmedie, West of the Waves 9. Last Night's News 10. Her Ceramic Inkwell 11. All Grown Up in Monochrome 12. Burnt Lasagne & a Cold, Cold Heart 13. If Tomorrow Comes a'Calling 14. Fossil Song 15. Time to Take Your Time 16. Carol by Candlelight 17. Life is Getting Sweeter 18. Tune for Tom Rapp 19. Mr. Hofner, Mrs. Conrad & Mr. Vox 20. Three Cheers The first US CD release for The Kitchen Cynics (the alter-ego of Alan Davidson of Aberdeen, Scotland). "His songs combine ancient folk roots with a lo-fi psychedelic aesthetic that effectively blurs the line between Syd Barrett and Pearls Before Swine," writes George Parsons in Dream Magazine #4 (that issue also features a full Kitchen Cynics interview). Original cover art from William Schaff who has also done LP art for Godspeed You Black Emperor, Songs:Ohia, Okkervil River, and more. We are very pleased to be releasing this CD - more folks should have the chance to enjoy the genius of the Kitchen Cynics! REVIEWS "This is the US debut CD by the Scottish underground artist, Alan Davidson. Alan has released scores of releases over the past 15 years under the name, Kitchen Cynics. He has been compared with Syd Barret, Reefus Moons, Robin Hitchcock and Tom Rapp. This CD features 20 tracks all recorded on 4 or 8 tracks with all instruments by Alan. Some tracks are beautiful Scottish Isles folk influenced like the opening number as well. While the majority of the tracks are acoustic, there are some tracks with programmed drums as well. One could consider artists like this poets as well, as they are really telling us stories that picture in their heads and put music to. For a deeper look into one man's Scottish mind, I highly recommend you enjoy this CD." - LowCut "Having been a big fan of Alan Davidson's work with this one man band it's about time I reviewed one of his records. I'm glad Jeffrey from Secret Eye shared my enthusiasm, and decided to release one of his issues. Perhaps it has some rerecorded tracks, so I guess completists can still go for both. Now, who is Kitchen Cynics? Many will agree he's a poetic genius. Musically every song becomes like a coloured miniature. All the guitar fingerpicking steps gently into the story's' tremblings. Surreal musical toy-like accompaniment finishes off the mood. Alan personally found some relative similar empathy with Pearls Before Swine's and Tom Rapp's kind of approach to music. But Alan's music is not from the 70's, but still, the acid folk gentleness of the gems, has survived. He is not afraid to use a rhythm box a few times, subtle and carefully enough mixed, a bit more to the back. The poetic approach is that much more inspiring to me, that each time when I hear a new couple of songs by him, no matter after how much time has elapsed, any writer's block dissolves, and I start to feel inspired to writing again. I consider the Kitchen Cynics as having created a psych folk genre on its own. It's all home-made, but well recorded. For new listeners this can work as the 'Alice in Wonderland' for the private life. Before this release came out I had a dream about a new KC release in the form of a small labyrinth cardboard-game with a tiny ball, with the plate full of pictures. There actually is another -card board- game with funny pictures in the inner side of the sleeve. I feel this similarity as another proof and aspect of how I feel the K.C. stimulate various connections with a parallel (dream-)world of experiences, which you can expect as a poetic picture, a funny shadow, all from another, perhaps cynic side of reality. I don't know how others would experience Kitchen Cynics. For me every miniature is like a world with space on its own. Highly recommended, and a good start for K.C." - Psych van het Folk 
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