Peter Murphy / Lion
Artist Peter Murphy
Album Title: Lion
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Art Rock
Format CD (2)
Released 06/03/2014
Label Nettwerk
Catalog No 0 6700 31020 2 5
Bar Code No 0 6700 31020 2 5
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
Lion (Disc 1)
1. Hang Up (5:44)
2. I Am My Own Name (5:46)
3. Low Tar Stars (4:12)
4. I'm On Your Side (5:29)
5. Compression (6:12)
6. Holy Clown (4:14)
7. The Rose (3:36)
8. The Ghost Of Shokan Lake (6:28)
9. Eliza (3:23)
10. Loctaine (6:25)
11. Lion (4:41)
Lion (Disc 2)
1. Double Dare (Live) (5:44)
2. In The Flat Field (Live) (4:17)
3. A God In An Alcove (Live) (4:14)
4. Silent Hedges (Live) (3:27)
5. The Spy In The Cab (Live) (4:10)
6. Bela Lugosi's Dead (Live) (7:37)
7. The Passion Of Lovers (Live) (3:48)
8. Stigmata Martyr (Live) (3:52)
9. Hollow Hills (Live) (5:00)
10. Spirit (Live) (3:22)
Date Acquired 10/16/2017
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 12.39

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Notes

[Lion]
Produced & mixed for Big Life Management
All songs published by Nettwerk One Music Canada, Inc. & [a=Martin Glover] (Martin Glover Publishing Designee)
[Bonus Disc]
Recorded Live At Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on July 27th, 2013
Published by Universal Music Publishing Limited
? & © 2014 Peter Murphy
Made in USA
"Dedicated to my wife Beyhan Ayse Murphy"
Limited Edition Deluxe 2-CD
Comes in a standard double CD jewel case; contains a 16 pages booklet with all lyrics of the album "Lion".
No track durations appear on the release, they were taken by a CD player.
Bass Guitar, Violin [Electric] – Emilio China (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By – Youth (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Composed By – Martin Glover (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Peter Murphy (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Drums, Keyboards [Additional], Programmed By – Eddie Banda (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Electric Guitar – Mark G Thwaite (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Engineer [Album], Engineer [Mix] – Eddie Banda (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11), Michael Rendall (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Guitar [Additional] – Martin Destroyer (tracks: 1-4), Pavan Sharda (tracks: 1-5)
Keyboards [Additional], Programmed By – Michael Rendall (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Layout – David Waplington
Lyrics By – Peter Murphy (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Management – Various Artists Management
Mastered By – Michael Rendall (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Mixed By – Youth (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Mixed By [Additional] – Eddie Banda (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Mixed By [Post Sound Mixing], Mastered By – John Siket (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Percussion – Nick Troy Lucero (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Photography By [Front Cover], Artwork By – Cihan Ünalan
Producer – Youth (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Recorded By – Ulysses Noriega (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Violin – Emilio DiZefalo (tracks: 1-1 to 1-11)
Vocals – Peter Murphy
Written-By – Bauhaus (tracks: 2-1 to 2-10)
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Peter Murphy
Copyright (c) – Peter Murphy
Licensed To – Nettwerk Productions Ltd.
Published By – Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
Published By – Nettwerk One Music Canada Ltd.
Published By – Martin Glover Publishing Designee
Produced For – Big Life Management
Recorded At – Henry Fonda Theatre
Mastered At – Meridean Mastering
Pressed By – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – Z127560
Pressed By – Cinram, Olyphant, PA – X40435
Barcode (String): 067003102025
Barcode (Text): 0 6700 31020 2 5
Matrix / Runout (CD1): Z127560 9P 31007-2 TEXT 01 M0S1
Mastering SID Code (CD1): ifpi L909
Matrix / Runout (CD2): X40435 9P 31020-2.2 TEXT 01 M1S1
Mastering SID Code (CD2): ifpi L902
Mould SID Code: IFPI 2U7G

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Analyzed Folder: Lion - Disc 1
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Number of Files: 11
Official DR Value: DR6
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Analyzed Folder: Lion - Disc 2
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DR         Peak       RMS        Filename                      
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DR12       -0.45 dB   -14.00 dB  01 - Double Dare (live).flac  
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DR12       -1.09 dB   -15.85 dB  06 - Bela Lugosi's Dead (live).flac
DR12       -0.34 dB   -14.60 dB  07 - The Passion of the Lovers (live).flac
DR12       -1.52 dB   -14.66 dB  08 - Stigmata Martyr (live).flac
DR12       -2.40 dB   -18.14 dB  09 - Hollow Hills (live).flac
DR12       -0.00 dB   -14.38 dB  10 - Spirit (live).flac      
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Number of Files: 10
Official DR Value: DR12
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Reviews
AllMusic Review by James Christopher Monger  [-]
2011's Ninth was the leanest and most immediate collection of new material from Peter Murphy to arrive since the late '90s, and Lion, his tenth long-player, while a much different animal (pun intended) sonically, goes for the jugular in a similar fashion. Working with Killing Joke's Martin "Youth" Glover furnishes the 11-eleven track set with a moody and meaty, industrial electro-pop foundation that's as much a throwback to the scene that Murphy helped spawn as it is a nod to modern Darkwave enthusiasts and goth-punk shoegazers like the Horrors, Cold Cave, and Zola Jesus. Lion finds the "Godfather of Goth" at his most unfettered, howling at the moon with the hubris of someone expecting a return call. For the most part, all of the roaring pays off, especially on the album's more propulsive selections like the fat, synth-driven opener (and first single) "Hung Up," the slick radio-ready (if it were 1993) "Eliza," and the decidedly retro "Low Tar Stars," a frantic electro-mule kick of a cut that somehow manages to evoke both Scary Monsters-era Bowie and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Both songs sound like the work of someone much shorter in the tooth, which may be the result of Murphy spending so much time with his back catalog on his decidedly Bauhaus-heavy Mr. Moonlight Tour the year prior to Lion's release. Even "The Ghost of Shokan Lake," which sounds on paper like a greasepaint-adorned, Christopher Guest-penned goth parody, bristles with the slightly exotic, yet always melodic expansiveness and murky, smoky mysticism that made early albums like Love Hysteria and Deep as satisfying as they were pompous, and while Lion (as a whole) fails to completely engage on that same level, it certainly gives it the old college rock try. [A Deluxe Limited Edition added a second disc with ten extra tracks.]
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