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Album: Stranger
Released: Jan 21, 2009
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  • Genre: Acousmatic / Tape music / Melodramatic Popular Song / Pop

    Location Chicago, Un

    Profile Views: 37926

    Last Login: 6/12/2012

    Member Since 4/15/2005

    Website http://www.myspace.com/whoislionelo

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Hey there. I'm a Minneapolis ex-pat currently living in rural Ohio. I've got four records: Brontosaurus Breakfast (2006/7), Lionel O's Fool's Gold (2007), Nemo Nocturne EP (2008), and Stranger (2009). I write songs because I want to write songs. I hope you hear them. I hope you like them. If you just want specific songs, click the little plus sign on the left of the albums listed on my snocap. Drop me a line here, or at ... ...."...a staple of the Oberlin music scene"..-The Oberlin Review, 10/10/08.... ...and all the records are up on ...... and CDbaby, at http://cdbaby.com/all/lionelo .

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    Marylinne Robinson, Guided By Voices, Jay Reatard, Bill Fox, Paul McCartney, John Berryman, Townes Van Zandt, Nico, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Elyse Weinberg, The Replacements, VU, Atlas Sound, Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe, Galaxie 500, ELO, Prince, R. Stevie Moore, (Smiley) Smile, The Pretenders, Smog (Bill Callahan), Billy Bragg...

  • Sounds Like

    "A husky, balls out, synesthetic's view of the underside of that driverless truck, filled alternately with multicolored bouncing balls and late eighties neon trading cards"..-Max Rivlin-Nadler .... "Magical Feelism".. -Farah Egal.... (insert comparison to yr favorite semi-literate/postpunk-influenced singer/songwriter here)

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I've got four records: Brontosaurus Breakfast (2006/7), Lionel O's Fool's Gold (2007), Nemo Nocturne EP (2008), and Stranger (2009). I write songs because I want to write songs. I hope you hear them. I hope you like them. If you just want specific songs, click the little plus sign on the left of the albums listed on my snocap. Drop me a line here, or at ...

"...a staple of the Oberlin music scene"
-The Oberlin Review, 10/10/08

...and all the records are up on Lionel O and CDbaby, at http://cdbaby.com/all/lionelo . Stranger should be up sometime soon...

Member Since:

April 15, 2005

Influences:

Marylinne Robinson, Guided By Voices, Jay Reatard, Bill Fox, Paul McCartney, John Berryman, Townes Van Zandt, Nico, Elvis Costello, Elyse Weinberg, The Replacements, Lee Hazelwood, Galaxie 500, VU, Atlas Sound, Wreckless Eric, Nick Lowe, Prince, R. Stevie Moore, (Smiley) Smile, The Pretenders, Billy Bragg...

Sounds Like:

"A husky, balls out, synesthetic's view of the underside of that driverless truck, filled alternately with multicolored bouncing balls and late eighties neon trading cards"
-Max Rivlin-Nadler

"Magical Feelism"
-Farah Egal

(insert comparison to yr favorite semi-literate/postpunk-influenced singer/songwriter here)

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