Citadel® “Vintage Vinyls” Song Style Guide
by
Proggirl
Hello again readers and friends! Here’s my top pick for your music downloading pleasure! First released in 2001, now on CDBbaby and iTunes!!! Since Citadel is so multi-genre, this album doesn’t just fit into one or two styles – here’s some style hints from a major fan of this awesome band! Luuz Ya! Proggirl LA
01. S.O.S. - Hard & Fast Rock w/odd changes, vocoders & spoken dialogue/lead guit break
02. Many Struggles - Acous 12 & 6 string guit, duo vox, brushed snare & hi-hat w/vibes
03. Dungeons of War - Prog rock, dynamic changes; from solemn intro, to folk verses, rock choruses & screaming leads
04. Lothlorien - Symph rock, flamenco-flavored intro, full bodied acous verses w/slamming choruses, long lead bridge & charging crescendo exit
05. Winter’s Dying - RnR w/shades of metal & prog, searing vox & guit, thundering drums/bass
06. On Death & Dying - 3/4 timed, swaying folk rock w/solid classical/new age instrumental closing
07. Moral Eyes - blues-flavored rock & roll journey (on slave ship) w/pendulum bass, choppy guit, effervescent layered vox, & precision phrased drums
08. Mindshine - Alt/Prog upbeat Folk w/acous guit & duet vox abounding w/solid timing, motion & finesse, plus a dreamy bridge
09. Standing Alone - Prog/Classic Rock starts w/ballad intro, jumps at you w/rock chorus & leaps off a cliff into a hard prog bridge, but there’s a soft landing
10. We Are Alone - Adult Contmp w/smooth jazz vox & acous guit, however there’s some solid acous rock jams hiding in the middle
11. Lost Kid - Classic Rock, lively ballad verses w/hard rock choruses & lead breaks
12. Freedom Song (Instrumental Prelude) - All instrumental excerpts from “The Citadel of Cynosure” movie full score
13. The Voice Inside - Acous guit w/precise double vocal harmonies & jazz bass moves
14. Hard Life - Blues rock w/nothing but a groove, scowling vox, thick guit & thumping bass
Great 'secret' listens
by
Indie Hunter
When you have already heard other Citadel albums and CD's, this one gives you an inside, kind of behind the scenes listen to the songs by Citadel as mixed by various engineers at the Recording Workshop. Later releases of some of these tunes are more lush and produced but the mixes on Vintage Vinyls show the underlying structure of Citadel classics like Dungeons, Lothlorien, On Death & Dying and We Are Alone. Also the inclusion of the band's very first 45 rpm single from 1978 which was released when the band members graduated high school is also a definite secret treasure showing that the soft (Voice Inside) and hard (Hard Life) styles of Citadel music could be verified from their inception. Great lyric book with photos comes with the CD!
