The sound of dreams, and of course, nightmares, continues on Doleful Lions’ fifth album, ‘Shaded Lodge And Mausoleum’. Now pared down to a doleful duo, Chicago denizen Jonathan Scott (songs, singing) and North Carolinian Dave Jackson (antique gadgets, studio wizarding) have turned out another lo-fi masterpiece. The beautiful, ornate songs on ‘Shade Lodge And Mausoleum’ feature grandiose psychedelia, winsome guitar pop, and death-metal lyrical imagery, haunted by tape-hiss poltergeists and sundry historical demons. With equal parts bedroom melancholy and comic book bravado, ‘Shaded Lodge and Mausoleum’ is not quite as sunshiny as previous efforts, with harmonies and occult whimsies replaced with stark folk atmospheres and songs about suicide cults, satanic rites, and suicide. STANDARD JEWEL CASE