released 10 July 2012 Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered at Ron’s Wrecker Service, Spring 2012. Ron-Vocals, Drums, Flute, Casio SK-1, Organ, Theremin, Modular Synth, Harmonica, Tambourine Carter-Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bowed and Electric bass, Drums, Backing Vocals, Tambourine Joe- Electric Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Mellotron, Backing vocals, Hand Drums, Tambourine Howie: Bass on “Dream Dragon” Cover art by Adam Burke nightjart.blogspot.com This album is a big change in style for Ice Dragon. Their other albums are unique, but they're firmly planted in the genre of doom metal. Dream Dragon is much more stoner and psychedelic-oriented, and it works; just don't be expecting anything particularly heavy on this release. About half the songs are acoustic with a bunch of other instruments layered on (just look at the lineup for all the instruments they play). These are generally flute- and/or bass-driven, and they're very nice. The rest are of course based around an electric guitar, but there's little to no doom there at all, instead sounding most influenced by stoner and traditional metal. More Than I Can Say For You is as doomy as it gets. Starting off the album is Dreamliner, and with the dragon motif and its very laid back and happy flute-driven intro, there's no easier way to say this: this will make you think of Puff the Magic Dragon. With lyrics saying we should learn how to love instead of hate, it's definitely clear: these guys are hippies, and they should be in the 60s right now. The singing sounds distant and filtered, and it makes up one of the two distinct vocal styles on the album. This style retains some of the clearly Ozzy-based characteristics from the past albums. Overall, it's a good song. It's the kind of song you listen to when you're just relaxing. That all changes with the next one, Maximum Trip, because it's a full blown rocker. The song's got a great riff, but again, it's not doom metal at all. It also has the other kind of singing: more aggressive and Southern-sounding. This is even more apparent in Stumble Onto Magic. Every Little Star is a great song, and maybe one of the best on the album, which is amazing for how short and simple it is. It's a shame it's not longer, but then maybe if it was it would lose its charm. It's very haunting, despite having pretty optimistic lyrics, and it leads in perfectly to Stumble Onto Magic, which has an incredibly sad (in a good way) introduction before turning inexplicably upbeat. Another standout is Beard of Thieves, which manages to be both catchy and noisy, and it has a great concept. I also have to mention the title track, which is exclusively psychedelic rock, containing a lot of flute and spacey singing. Without the context of the album it would sound silly, but they pull it off. The only song that's no good here is I Know You're In Here, which is boring and gets annoying after a while. Excluding that one song, every one on the album takes you on a journey, and it's one you should be glad to get lost in for the better part of an hour.