Bored_unicorn Leake

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Vulgar Unicorn’s guitarist Bruce Soord’s other group produces its first CD. Although it is very much in the Vulgar Unicorn/ Porcupine Tree vein it is a little more guitar orientated, the result is a far less esoteric sound than Vulgar Unicorn and in many ways more progressive. Some great guitar riffing and lead work, especially on the 23 minute epic “Parted Forever” with its inexorable build up to a great final part, exemplifies this fine work. Over an hour of inventive prog, mixing 70’s and 90’s styles this album is for anyone who likes Vulgar Unicorn, Porcupine Tree and Radiohead. For those waiting for the next Vulgar Unicorn album - this is a must.

This soundtrack to the popular 1982 animated film based on the acclaimed children's book by Peter Beagle was scored by songwriter/composer Jimmy Webb ("Wichita Lineman," "MacArthur Park") and features performances from the soft rock duo America. The score itself, an appropriately somber and sentimental blend of fairy tale motifs and dark, Wagnerian cues, reflects the story's achingly beautiful tale of a unicorn who attempts to overthrow a maniacal king determined to rid the world of the magical creatures, while the songs are far more creative, daring, and eloquent than all of the cookie-cutter balladry that would eventually replace their type in future animated films. Like Watership Down, The Hobbit, and even Robert Altman's live action, Harry Nilsson-scored Popeye, this hard to find soundtrack is a gem from another age.

Always one of the most exquisite-sounding records of the mid-'70s, Blue Pine Trees was the sound of Unicorn at the peak of their musical and songwriting abilities. An album that puts you in mind of Lindisfarne before they got desperate, or the Beatles if Ashley Hutchings had produced them, this is British folk-rock at one of its most idiosyncratic extremes…