Track Listing

1. Dance Out Of The Shadows
2. This Morning
3. Come Home Everyone
4. My Forrest Brown
5. I Want To Be Your Man
6. Jupe Longue
7. Jeans + Summer
8. Wasted
9. Entourage
10. Foglights
11. The Last Man On The Moon
12. Junes Buffalo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98788 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
The ex-Duran Duran front man, Stephen Duffy, releases his sixth album as The Lilac Time, aptly titled, Lilac6. Since the release of their self-titled album in 1987, The Lilac Time has produced a kind of folky pop that is quintessentially English. Duffy is now in his 40s as this collection of songs reveals. "Middle Age is All the Rage" is the opening line of the album's first track "Dance Out of the Shadows", a whimsical ballad with a simple melody strummed on an acoustic guitar. The tempo changes for "This Morning" as Duffy recollects his teenage angst for the new generation. The overall impression is that Duffy has been listening to a lot of country music of late, evident on "Come Home Everyone", the pedal steel guitar enhancing the sentimental reminiscence of the song. Long-time collaborators Steven Page, Tyler Stewart and Kevin Hearne of The Barenaked Ladies, have been enrolled into the ranks, bringing with them their pop quirkiness which works very well. The trademark instrumental jigs of Nick Duffy are here in the form of "Jupe Lengue" and "Junen Buffalo" which are as fun and refreshing as ever and complete this very pleasing package of songs. Lilac 6 is probably the band's most consistent album since 1990s And Love For All. --Jamie Clark

Chronique amazon.fr
La légende veut que le leader de The Lilac Time, le chanteur Stephen Duffy, soit un des membres fondateurs de Duran Duran qu'il quitta avant que le groupe n'ait rencontré quelque succès. Pourtant c'est aux antipodes de la pop synthétique de ces derniers qu'il s'est fait connaître. Plutôt romantique, le personnage s'attelle à peaufiner depuis la fin des années 80 de trop rares albums acoustiques et contemplatifs qui ne sont pas sans évoquer la figure tutélaire de Nick Drake dont la chanson "River Man" a offert son patronyme au groupe. Lilac6 reste fidèle à une ligne de conduite qui n'a pas varié d'un iota, prolongeant le précédent et essentiel Looking For A Day In The Night paru en 1999. Fort de ses influences folk et country, Lilac Time impose une fois encore ses mélodies délicates empreintes de mélancolie. Magique. --Hervé Comte

Album Description
6th record from Stephen Duffy & company, produced by Andy Partridge of XTC & John Leckie on Spinart Records.