Naked Giants The Shadow 1/24/12 One minute it is reflective

One minute it is reflective and relaxed the next sinister and terrifying

Side A incorporates Biwa and Shakuhachi and Japanese drums under the theme of the shrine maiden’s mouth-to-mouth that is handed down to Osorezan on the Shimokita Peninsula

11 She's Always a Woman

The rainbow colours with which Duke chose to tint this album are taken less from the paintpots of fusion jazz and rock

Naked Giants The Shadow 1/24/12 One minute it is reflectiveThe Shadow is an album of growth. Each song on The Shadow examines an aspect of this growth through a different musical lens, adding up to a series of rock and roll vignettes of light, shadow, anxiety and responsibility. Frantic punk scenes of information overload are contrasted by patient drones of introspection; fun, ear worm musings of life as a young rock band are juxtaposed with the heavier responsibility of having a voice and not quite knowing