Century Flower is the second album of Shelleyan Orphan (1989 Rough Trade).

Album · 1989 · 10 Songs. More By Shelleyan Orphan.

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Shelleyan Orphan were a British alternative music group that peaked during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1989, they released Century Flower. So called after a flower that blooms only once in its lifetime, this album was intended to mark "an event which affects enormous change, maybe once in a century: on a world scale, the atomic bomb: on a personal level, the death of someone close to you". Produced by David M. Allen, the.

B3. Amanita Muscaria. Century Flower ‎(LP, Album). Rough Trade, Festival Records. RTDCD 113. Shelleyan Orphan. Century Flower ‎(CD, Album).

Century Flower, despite occasional lapses into cheesy art-rock cliches, features some great songwriting in this vein - the only problem is that slick, overly clean production makes the wonderful arrangements sound sterile and trite (a flaw which truly crippled the album that followed, Humroot). This is a shame, since the duo manages to use classical instruments like cellos, accordians, and oboes in a way that's anything but overdone, and singer Carolyn Crawley's voice works perfectly with the baroque style

Century Flower, 1989. The Silent Day, 02:46. Century Flower, 03:45. Between Two Waves, 04:08.

Shelleyan Orphan's first album opens with a bang. Shatter" comes in with upbeat horns, while some nonsense lyrics fit well with the saxophone solos. Century Flower" could be classified under "alternative" music, but this group produces sounds unlike any other band today or in the past. has anything but a high profile. They did open for The Cure during their recent Prayer Tour.