Battle Royal

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Folk British Columbia 2010's
Year 2016
Label Cactus Records
Format CD
Genre folk
Keywords Unknown
Purchase / Links johnlyle.bandcamp.com
Value USD

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Battle Royal

By: John Lyle

Origin: Sechelt, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

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15 tracks

  • You Know It Won't Kill You to Die

    Track 1 02:37

  • Never Going Back

    Track 2 01:44

  • When Nothing's Right

    Track 3 02:16

  • The Arms of Yesterday

    Track 4 03:50

  • All Day Long

    Track 5 02:16

  • The Happenstance of Evening

    Track 6 02:43

  • Shades of Grey

    Track 7 03:55

  • So Close to Home

    Track 8 02:27

  • King Size Mouth in a Queen Size Bed

    Track 9 01:48

  • Don't Go Down to Shantytown

    Track 10 02:40

  • The Sun Machine

    Track 11 03:24

  • A Price to Pay

    Track 12 02:56

  • Foggy

    Track 13 03:28

  • You Woke Up Dreaming

    Track 14 04:13

  • Wings Beyond Rio

    Track 15 04:52

Insight

"This is a fascinating bouquet of new songs to lull you in, running from some as simple as early Americana field-recordings, into more complex humour and wistful moods, "You Know It Won't Kill You To Die" and "The Happenstance Of Evening", fifteen songs easy-spaced across 46-minutes, seldom taken at a faster pace than a jigging run, as close and intimate as new conversations with a particularly lyrical friend, whisper-fine settings from dulcimer and pedal steel as well as subtle drums and guitar, with family inputs from Penny and son Pax (who also adds the Sasquatch cover-art). John is a hand-crafted troubadour, new and eternal - but beware the cautiously-signposted 'B'-word on "Shades Of Grey" and the colloquial 'F'-word on the play-out 'Wings Beyond Rio'."
-Andrew Darlington

released November 19, 2016

Cover portrait of his father by Pax Lyle.

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