Golden Wolf is the fifth album by Australian act Dope Lemon, that is the project of Angus Stone. Some versions of the album come with a comic book or a signed art card.
The album opens with John Belushi and a list of the drugs John needed to get through the day, vocals are in a narcotic haze weaving there way through the acoustic guitars and crystalline synths, making you all warm inside, but with no flashbacks to The Penguin or being in a frat house, this follows John stumbling down a street in search of yet more ways to get higher than Jesus, while claiming to be in the room when he finally had that final immaculate hit.
Sugar Cat is ready to take that trip on a spacecraft that you can only take once you've seen the Sugar Cat and got some of there stuff, laid back half-awake vocals almost rap sing this tale of getting what you need to get where you want to be, over loping beats with spaced out guitar interjections, keeping things nicely out of it.
The single Electric Green Lambo is a modern soul opus for going cruising in a fancy car, hoping to find some fun along the way.
Golden Wolf gently urges you to be the best you can be in this life or the next one, it builds like it wants to be a soar away shoegaze anthem, in the style of Gangsta's Paradise.
Yamasuki has what sounds like sampled vocals from a Japanese movie, with call and response parts, this has brilliant resonating bass drum sound and shouts for the moves you need to make, this is the tune that jumps out for me. Probably because it's based on a 1971 single on Dandelion records, the psychedelic guitar is brilliant along with the whistling.
We Solid Gold and he'll be yours till the end of time, well at least until he leaves town on tour again, chilled and laid back he'll persuade you to sit out a hurricane with him in his shelter, the vocals move around the speakers like he's got you surrounded so you had better give in.
She's All Time (Feat Nina Nesbitt) is just the sort of smooth Mr Lover Lover man schtick you might imagine from the title, it will be perfect to make your moves on the dancefloor, when you see the babe that blows your mind, let that squiggly funky guitar lead her on for you. Worst way you can just watch her walk on by, your lust filled eyes follow her, this is perfect for a slowish dance on holiday.
Maggie's Moonshine needs some soulful saxophone and strings to help it slip down real easy, so you can do the soft shoe shuffle with her once more. Till you hit the dubby breakdown, your half mashed and things have got a bit more horizontal than expected.
On The 45 is ready for some whiskey and cigarettes with one hell of a fine lady and the fun and games that go with them, lazy hazy beats and memories that may leave you in a heap on the floor, trying to keep up with her. She may be walking on air, but not in the old Australian sense of it, no one has put a noose around her neck, it's more an arm to help cuddle up close with her, in time to enjoy the all too brief guitar solo.
The album closes with Dust Of A Thousand Stars that has a bit of a Spanish Hustle intro, sounding like Dope Lemon has a mass dance routine at the ready to go along with this song live. So get ready to throw your hands in the air and join in, while trying to figure out which Fela Kuti song the guitar part is lifted from on this dance floor epic.
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