Duel

by Paul Roland

Type: Album
Released: 1989
Label: New Rose
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 40:31
Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Cult English songwriter Paul Roland delves deeply into his obsession with Victorian macabre and Gothic literature on this elaborate conceptual work. 'Duel' utilizes orchestral instrumentation, classical motifs, and heavy folk-rock rhythms to weave tales of 19th-century murder, ghost stories, and the occult. The highly theatrical record stands as a uniquely eccentric piece of eccentric British dark-folk.

Genres

Art Rock
Folk Rock
Singer-Songwriter

Descriptors: melodic, medieval, death, conceptual, theatrical, male-vocals, acoustic, eccentric, storytelling

Tracklist

Knights (3:23)
The Crimes Of Dr. Cream (3:02)
Reptile House (2:59)
Spring Heeled Jack (2:53)
Nosferatu (6:07)
At The Edge Of The World (3:31)
Alice's House (3:28)
Menagerie (2:28)
The King Must Die (12:40)