Eccsame the Photon Band

Eccsame the Photon Band
Studio album by Lilys
Released December 1994
Recorded Studio 45, Hartford, Connecticut, 1994
Genre Dream pop/Space rock
Label spinART
Producer Kurt Heasley, Rich Costey[1]
Lilys chronology

A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns
(1994)		 Eccsame The Photon Band
(1994)		 Better Can't Make Your Life Better
(1996)

Eccsame the Photon Band is a 1994 album by the American indie rock band, Lilys, released on the spinART label.[2] The album saw the band move towards dream pop.[3] The album was recorded at Mike Deming's Studio 45 in Hartford, Connecticut,[4] largely as duo of Kurt Heasley and Harold Evans (of Poole).[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [3]
CMJ New Music Monthly (neutral)[6]

The album was described as "one of the Lilys' best" by Jason Ankeny, writing for Allmusic.[3] It was described as "a hallucinatory revelation" by Marc Hogan of Pitchfork Media.[7] Comparing it with the band's previous album, Douglas Wolk, writing for Trouser Press, called it "a much crazier record, and a much quieter one".[5] Andrew Unterberger of Stylus Magazine stated that the album was "not influenced by shoegazing as a genre, but rather as a principle,", calling it "a masterpiece of mood, atmosphere and production."[8] Andrea Moed of CMJ New Music Monthly stated that on the album Heasley "sounds like David Gilmour's slightly less evil twin, numb but not quite comfortable".[6] The album is about Heasly's nervous breakdown when his girlfriend left him for the heir to the Hershey Chocolate fortune.

Track listing

  1. "High Writer at Home" - 5:53
  2. (untitled) - 0:12
  3. "Day of the Monkey" - 3:49
  4. "FBI and Their Toronto Transmitters" - 3:36
  5. (untitled) - 0:18
  6. "The Turtle Which Died Before Knowing" - 7:56
  7. "The Hermit Crab" - 3:34
  8. (untitled) - 0:16
  9. "Overlit Canyon (The Obscured Wingtip Memoir)" - 5:15
  10. "Hubble" - 6:06
  11. "Kodiak (Reprise)" - 0:49
  12. "Radiotricity" - 3:41
  13. "Your Guest and Host" - 4:40
  14. (untitled) - 4:54

Personnel

[1][9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eccsame the Photon Band CD insert
  2. ↑ Martin Charles Strong (2003). The Great Indie Discography. Canongate U.S. pp. 836–7. ISBN 978-1-84195-335-9.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ankeny, Jason "Eccsame the Photon Band Review", Allmusic, Macrovision Corporation, retrieved 26 December 2009
  4. ↑ Daley, David (1995) "Mary Karlzen's Got a Winner; Tanya Tucker, Try Again", Hartford Courant, June 1, 1995, p.18
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wolk, Douglas "Lilys", Trouser Press, retrieved 25 December 2009
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Moed, Andrea (1994) "Lilys Eccsame the Photon band", CMJ New Music Monthly, December 1994, p. 22
  7. ↑ Hogan, Marc (2006) "Lilys Everything Wrong is Imaginary", Pitchfork Media, February 22, 2006, retrieved 26 December 2009
  8. ↑ Unterberger, Andrew (2003) "Lilys Precollection", Stylus Magazine, 2003, retrieved 26 December 2009
  9. ↑ Orgera, Alexandra; Saul, James; Howard, Brian, & Rapa, Patrick (2006) "The Lilys Family Tree", Philadelphia City Paper, February 16–22, 2006, retrieved 25 December 2009