Riddlehouse
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Prelude to Sun is the first album from Riddlehouse. Songs include:

1. Sun
2. Vulture's Dream
3. Too Much To Steal (mp3)
4. Day in the Woods
5. What I Must
6. Wanderlust
7. Paycheck
8. Celtic Lounge Lizard
9. Eleven
10. Beatle Path
11. On Through the Gap
12. Perfect Crime
13. Magic
14. Shingletown

"Riddlehouse's Rhubarb Dreams should be stocked in the apple-doesn't-fall-far-from-the-tree department. The band, anchored by drummer Kofi Baker, gives off a decidedly late-Sixties / early-Seventies proto-metal vibe that recalls the glory days of Kofi's papa, Cream timekeeper Ginger Baker. The warbling of lead singer Jeffrey Leonetti sometimes suggests Bono or Michael Hutchence, but he seems most comfortable when offering up Robert Plant screeches. Likewise, the heavy riffing that pops up on "Freezin", "Drinking Free", "Zarg" and elsewhere seems to have been transported to the present from an earlier time. (The same can be said of "William the Konker", a four-minute percussion duel between Kofi and Ginger that may prompt old timers to start flicking their Bics.) Although this is supposed to be the first act of a three-part rock opera, I couldn't make heads of tails of the plot--another link to the past. Anybody got some extra blotter acid?" -- Michael Roberts, Westword