The Lion's Boy, by Vender & The Cobras

The Lion's Boy

by Vender & The Cobras

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Until December 1st, all proceeds from The Lion's Boy will be donated to Black Oaks Center, a black-owned sustainable farm and teaching center located in the historic black farming community of Pembroke Township, Illinois.

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1.	Pretty Far 02:00	buy track
2.	Part of You 03:17	buy track
3.	I Was a Fool, I Was Afraid 02:22	buy track
4.	We Held Hands 01:23	buy track
5.	Company of Ghosts 03:15	buy track
6.	I Give My Friends 01:25	buy track
7.	Everything is Beautiful 03:16	buy track
8.	Forest Song 03:55	buy track
9.	Lion's Boy 04:16	buy track
10.	Car Outside Your Door 01:42	buy track
11.	Dead Tone 00:05	buy track
12.	Deadbeat Sucker 02:51	buy track
13.	Terrible 00:52	buy track

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Vender & the Cobras’ The Lion’s Boy is an alchemy of revelry, regret, scandal, and sentimentality—its brilliance lying in the improbability of its elements. The man behind the moniker is Matt Beard and the man behind Matt Beard is Patrick Budde. The pair recorded The Lion’s Boy from start to finish while living under the same roof and their cohesion unifies the album’s sound, while the push-pull of their dynamic keeps every song surprising. Where Beard is a purist with acoustic sensibilities, Budde is a pied piper inclined towards pop production. By combining forces, they’ve created an album with enough cheekiness to offset its sincerity and enough restraint to justify the occasional indulgence.

Though The Lion's Boy is undeniably, even harrowingly, personal, it retains the invitational quality of the campfire. Indie-folk fans, mystics, purists, pied pipers, deadbeat suckers, homewreckers, and wandering ghosts of all kinds are sure to find a home on this album, and they ought to listen sooner rather than later. To borrow a last line from the last line of The Lion’s Boy:

[You] don’t wanna miss another chance at love.

-Annabel Lang

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released October 8, 2018

Performed by Matt Beard, Patrick Budde & Gaby FeBland
Mixed and Engineered by Patrick Budde
Mastered by Norman Marston
Co-Produced by Patrick Budde & Matt Beard

Album art by Jesse Lee Pacheco

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