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Cavalier
King’s debut album The Sun Revolutions
will be in stores on Tuesday, February
7th |
It
has been said that everyone is a hero at
birth. But in most, no sooner is the cord
cut than this noble endowment goes the way
of the human tail. Not so for the renegade
known as the Cavalier King, the superhero-like
alter ego of painter/musician Chris Taylor.
Cavalier King’s music is hypnotic,
poetic and defiant. The Sun Revolutions
tells of an awakening in a fearful and ever-darkening
world dominated by wrenching loss and worse,
crushing tedium.
The
songs of The Sun Revolutions are not merely
stories, but epic expressions of chivalry,
valor and the search for truth. Cavalier
King’s very first words to us, “So
it came out one day that I don’t pray
to virgin mothers”, leave us no room
for doubt. The song “Renegade”
is his unequivocal repudiation of the conventional,
the superstitious, and the supernatural
ideologies that pervade the populace. Then,
in the title track “Sun Revolution”,
Cavalier King takes us into the epic battle
against the nefarious Shadows of Industry,
for only in the context of combat, facing
imminent death, will we gain awareness of
the Eternal. He sings: “two warm bodies
lie terrified under the manhole cover ill,
writing the new constitution fighting the
Sun Revolution…But today we will reign,
forever.”
Unfortunately,
however, the Cavalier King’s cause
dissolves into an insatiable fever wherein
he confuses the unwitting masses for the
enemy. In the self-titled song, “Cavalier
King”, we witness the destruction
of the known world at the hand of the once
valiant and noble knight who, like Alexander
the Great, has become the undisputed King.
But as he stands triumphant at the end of
his last battle, he realizes he is merely
a king of corpses, for the vast carnage
leaves him devastated, disillusioned and
paralyzed by his own weakness for revenge.
Now The Sun Revolutions are coming, and
Cavalier King will carry out the business
of saving the world. Or destroying it. Or
both.
The
Sun Revolutions emerged from Chris Taylor’s
Manhattan bedroom in 2005, and was fortified
on a former killing floor in Hadley, Massachusetts
at Mark Alan Miller’s (Sonic Youth,
Dinosaur Jr.) Slaughterhouse Studios.
Listen
to The Unprotected.
Check out Cavalier King's Official
Website.
Buy the Album.
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