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New Dark Ages
Music for the new dark ages: new music that sparkles, yet with a centuries-old aftertaste. Melodies with an ancient flavor meet dark, original lyrics written and sung by Katy Thomasberg (part of the Lilith Fair tour in the 90s). Her beautiful, dramatic vocals float and roar over a backdrop of bouzouki, fiddles, and flute, backed by a rhythm section that includes members of Boiled in Lead and The Blue Up?.
The songs evoke the twisted imagery of hallucinatory 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch with stories of shipwrecks, the politics of opiates, drunkenness, the green-eyed monster jealousy, the noble warhorses of the conquering Genghis Bond, with a single ray of LedZep-influenced Sunshine.
Bringing the total in this collection to 13, the disc is enhanced with live video of a new song, Baladi, plus other digital goodness. Felonious Bosch combines multiple strands of music into a single powerful sound. Welcome to the new dark ages.
- “...fuse(s) the warring impulses of punk and progressive rock with a cross-cultural traditional sound shot through with jazz tendencies.” -- Dirty Linen (Feb/Mar 2007)
- "...the wonderfully named Felonious Bosch expand on the ideas of their initial EP, and New Dark Ages is very aptly titled. There's a sparseness to the sound and production that seems empty at first, but soon becomes logical, there's meant to be space and emptiness in this music. Although it might contain some elements of folk and world music... they're very much a rock band with their own vision colored in differing shades of black."
-- Chris Nickson, all music guide - "...intriguing, appealing... ...there's a lighter-than-air quality to these songs, even as they often revolve around drones. Unusual and unusually attractive, Felonious Bosch gives folk tradition a 3.0 upgrade." -- Michael Toland, High Bias
- "Felonious Bosch brings the beating heart of American rock'n'roll to graceful European traditions in a way that's really quite distinctive -- I've heard a lot of early music/rock fusions, but no one else has done it quite like this." -- Sing Out!, Winter 2007
- "...Katy Thomasberg reinvents herself as a quasi-mystic probably headed for hell as she genre splices ancient sounding melodies from many cultures with dark lyrics sung by her soaring voice. A delightfully schizoid recording that shakes you up with its light seeming sound floating through the heart of darkness. What self-absorbed college kid wouldn't love this?" -- Midwest Record Recap
| 1 | Opium | 3:11 | iTunes |
| 2 | Drunken Brawl | 3:15 | iTunes MP3 Download |
| 3 | Straight To Hell | 3:37 | iTunes |
| 4 | Sunshine | 4:55 | iTunes |
| 5 | Cooper's Attic | 3:25 | iTunes |
| 6 | Behind The Wall Of Sleep | 2:07 | iTunes |
| 7 | Deep Blue | 2:29 | iTunes |
| 8 | Valle | 3:03 | iTunes |
| 9 | Better Days | 5:48 | iTunes |
| 10 | Genghis Bond | 5:02 | iTunes |
| 11 | Bedroom Eyes | 3:39 | iTunes |
| 12 | Ode To Billy Christ | 6:25 | iTunes |
| 13 | Baladi (video) | 5:38 |