Dog soldiers: Brutal Lyrics - CD

The legendary album "Brutal Lyrics" is a studio album by the Prague-based music group Psi Soldiers. It contains ten songs with lyrics by Filip Topol from 1994-1995. The album was recorded in June and July 1995 in the Audio Line studio in Brno and released on CD and MC the same year. The music and sound direction was done by Roman Jež and Vladimír Holek. The upcoming re-release on 2LP will also include two bonus features, thanks to the 80-minute length of the 2LP. These are two songs from the album Brutal Lyric (Kruhy and Brutal Lyric) but from an album recorded by Filip Topol with Agon Orchestra. The bleak nature imagery on the album cover suggests that the music, while rock-ishly wild, is by no means disheveled. Composer, lyricist, pianist and singer Filip Topol plays the piano on the album, it's a kind of wild rock playing often reminiscent of a chanson. Topolová is ably supported by David Skala's drums and Luděk Horky's bass guitar, and Jiří Jelínek's alto saxophone can be heard on the album, all produced by Pavla Švédová. The CD and 2LP contain over an hour and fifteen minutes of cheerless, unrestrained music with a romantic touch, with excellent lyrics by the torn poet Filip Topol, whose speech is somewhere between singing and expressive recitation. In spite of the singing, he doesn't sing (Philip declaiming and shouting, but also just "just" singing. Really melancholic songs, e.g. The song Swing are balanced by Rain 3, which is a surprisingly cheerful song where Topol shows his sense of almost Zappa-esque irony. The final track, Just Long Enough, lasts twenty-four minutes, has an amazing atmosphere, is the only one that is musically relatively monotonous, you can feel the dust and sun of Prague's Holešovice, everything is long, long, long. And of course everything is miles away from the music of commercial radio as always. The music of Dog Soldiers is simply dog soldier music.

Year of publication: 1995
Year of reissue: 2021

Playlist

“ So far” / Swinging / Circles / Brutal Lyric / Ten / Xth Story / Rain 3 / Plowman / I Won't / Just Long Enough (Dream in Reality)