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Lord Mandrake

About Me

Lord Mandrake's debut album The Best of All Possible Worlds is available now. 100 limited screenprinted albums are available from Slowtrain Records, Positively Fourth Street, Ken Sander's Rare Books, and Model Citizen.

The Best of All Possible Worlds is also available to download for free from:
http://www.box.net/shared/xonngb3uba
CityWeekly Review of "The Best of All Possible Worlds"
"Lord Mandrake are old souls housed in youthful bodies making slightly melancholy, slightly mischievous music. Following their 2008 EP Dreamer, The Best of All Possible Worlds speaks to a generation raised on Wes Anderson, McSweeney’s and similar post-modern irony. But the LP is equally seeped in classic folk and psychedelic rock, with lush piano crashing down around teeth-baring lyrics: “Misanthropes chattering over wars being fought on someone else’s ground/I hope I’ll see the day when you’re consumed by the ones you have fed.” The first track off Worlds even nods to the spaghetti-Western instrumentals of Spindrift, its jangly guitar eventually culminating as a searing fireball of energy that’s sustained throughout the record. It’s a stunning sophomore effort contained in intricately screen-printed packaging."
-Jamie Gadette
"Oh Lord My Sun is Gone" - Lord Mandrake from Will Charles on Vimeo .


Our EP is now available for free to download from here:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9926ZQLM

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/06/2007
Band Website: http://lordmandrake.blogspot.com
Band Members: Ben Galvin
Colin Fugit
Stephen Whipple
Spencer Whittington-Charles
Instruments that we utilize:
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Tamborine, Maracas, Oboe, Clarinet (once we get it repaired), Recorder, Harmonica, Casio Keyboard, 12-string Guitar, Banjo Recent addition: Harp
Influences: The Beatles, Neutral Milk Hotel, Professor Plum, My Bloody Valentine, Mushman, Neil Young, The Beach Boys, Radiohead, Phillip Glass, Religion, Salt Lake City, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Faraday's law of induction.
Sounds Like: A sack of puppies being beaten with a metal bat.
Record Label: The Twilight Republic

My Blog

Gratitude/Information

First off, much thanks to everyone who showed up to our Kilby show on Friday and our show last night at Slowtrain. It certainly wasn't a sellout show, but the enthusiasm that everyone brought to the s...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:24:00 GMT

"The Best of All Possible Worlds" Free Download

For a limited time only, you can download our new full length album for free from the interwebs. And by limited, we mean as long as the interweb remains functional. However, if you can afford to drop ...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:26:00 GMT

City Weekly Review/Kind words

For your pleasure, below is a review/feature in City Weekly of our upcoming album release and shows.Love,Lord Mandrake"Lord Mandrake are old souls housed in youthful bodies making slightly melancholy,...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:05:00 GMT

FREE CUPCAKES!

Hear ye! Hear ye! The esteemed Lord Mandrake speaketh! All bonny and comely young lads shall be bequeathed the sum of a single cupcake for the investment of $12.00 in our forthcoming, ignored, and ove...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:39:00 GMT

"The Best of All Possible Worlds" Press Release

FOR RELEASE JUNE 8TH, 2009For more information, contact:Spencer CharlesEmail:[email protected]:801.707.5055LOC AL BAND RELEASES ALBUM TO ALL-ENCOMPASSING SILENCEOn July 7th, the Salt Lake...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:31:00 GMT

Distant Rumblings/Ghostly Blogs

So, I wrote a really long winded blog entry last night, but apparently it didn't get posted.Maybe it was for the best. Maybe MySpace's Blog system filters out all unnecessary and useless content.To th...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:45:00 GMT

Lord Mandrake officially endorses Barack Obama!

Yes, you read right, Lord Mandrake is endorsing Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States. Now, I could go in to a long detailed endorsement here, but instead I have decided to post t...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:25:00 GMT

Concert tonight at Kilby w/ Asobi Seksu!

Well well well. Looks where we are again. It seems we have another concert, tonight, with a very good band, Asobi Seksu. Haven't heard them? Listen to them. They're wonderfully good. If you love My Bl...
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:20:00 GMT

Oh god, another show?

That's right, it's that time of the month again for Lord Mandrake (showtime), and if you don't come, we're going to be pissy as hell. You thought we were a bunch of manipulative bastards BEFORE? You h...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:04:00 GMT

underground

continue to go back and forth between a place you wish you could call home. keep putting your fingers in the cracks of the hull. the fair weathered laugh at your useless efforts. every day that passes...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 11:33:00 GMT