The second Idle Tigers album, Persisting Like a Racehorse, is available now. This recording is a collection of song-stories in the poisoned pastoral mode, performed on rustic synthesizers with vocals recently described as sounding like "the world's most nervous person". The debut album, 'The Spirit Salon' is available on iTunes. From 'The Ideal Tiger' "The Spirit Salon is a sociable gathering of several centuries’ worth of spirit voices, speaking achronologically of times spent as story-tellers and ballad-sellers, MIDIeval wanderers and have-a-go heroes, TV personalities and housebound mugs. The salon is a civilised and domestic environment. The spirits who attend have been summoned from public, outdoor realms: the open sea, the Houses of Parliament, Edwardian garden parties, the musical theatre, and English Civil War battlefields." http://myspace.com/idletigers http://idletigers.wordpress.com According to Jonny Opinion: "You may unearth a joke where you least expect to. Idle Tigers - a sham? - I know him (them) as Ross, which rhymes with dust, the most part being the sound of empty space, which too rhymes with dust (it was Ross who originally taught me that everything rhymes) which is my earliest memory of Ross, who rhymes with Huysmans, Brel, Byron, Bacon, fake, fact, fad, gadget. There might be a song here called “A Shadow Falls Across the Fridge, Frank” and if so, that’s my fault, because Idle Tigers is the sound of the concrete made ridiculous, disguised as nothing of the sort. I don’t expect you to appreciate this and (I expect) neither does Ross. Idle Tigers are deeply suspect. You’ll find beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, buggery and bishops, and has any alliteration ever better captured a nation? In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is ugly. This is my impression of Ross. Music is falling, it’s game over. The human race does not deserve something so pretentious: but every generation gets the tigers it deserves." Get 'The Spirit Salon' at http://www.juno.co.uk/products/313247-01.htm Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.