Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle
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Artist: Van Dyke ParksBrand: PARKS,VAN DYKE
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Dictionary); English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1990-05-18
Music Label: Warner Bros / Ada
Soundtracks:
- Vine Street
- Palm Desert
- Widow's Walk
- Laurel Canyon Blvd
- All Golden
- Van Dyke Parks
- Public Domain
- Donovan's Colours
- Attic
- Laurel Canyon Blvd
- By the People
- Pot Pourri
Music reviews of Song Cycle
Music Review: The Road Not Taken...
Rating: 5 Stars
This album represents an alternate path for the pop avant-garde. Could this album be the secret precursor to artists like Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective etc?
Description of Song Cycle
Van Dyke Parks' visionary 1968 debut, Song Cycle, rose phoenix-like from the ashes of his fabled Smile collaboration with Brian Wilson. Parks' breathtaking high-wire act fused the pop genius of Phil Spector, Stephen Sondheim's Broadway vertigo and the orchestral flare of American composer Charles Ives and made it wholly his own. Our definitive pressing of this landmark Warner Bros. album is sourced from the original analog master, and pressed on high-definition vinyl.Former child actor Van Dyke Parks had reinvented himself as a songwriter, arranger, raconteur, and budding conceptualist when Warner Bros. bankrolled this brave, baroque 1968 debut, which has achieved true notoriety in the annals of '60s California pop. More heard-of than heard, Song Cycle sailed against the tide of guitar-driven, blues-drenched rock to bet on the orchestral ambitions of Sgt. Pepper, weaving a conceptual tapestry from folk, Tin Pan Alley, and classical strands. In place of generational anthems or confessional love songs, Parks's coy, modest tenor offered intricate, impressionistic wordplay ripe with puns, multiple-entendres, and geopolitical allusions far beyond the pale of countercultural rock. On songs such as "The All Golden," "Palm Desert," and "Laurel Canyon Blvd.," you'll hear poetic links to Brian Wilson's most convoluted, internalized soundscapes, as well as a wily musical intelligence that will either intoxicate or infuriate you. Not unlike a brattier, Californian cousin to Stephen Sondheim, Parks revels in musical and thematic puzzles, and Song Cycle offers his most seductive and challenging ones. --Sam Sutherland
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