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A Colossal Waste Of Light (Clear & Purple Smoke)

Eyelids

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Format: LP

Cat No: LPJBR224C

Format Details: Clear & Purple Smoke

Release Date:  24 March 2023

Label:  Jealous Brother Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  843563141366

Genres:  Indie  Alternative  

Release Date:  17 March 2023

Label:  Jealous Brother Records

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  843563141373

Genres:  Indie  Alternative  

  • Description

    Eyelids' new album, A Colossal Waste of Light, does an excellent job of framing the quintet as one of today's most compelling purveyors of lopsided guitar pop workouts and earworm-laden vocal melodies. It also proves that great guitar pop can still evoke favorites from a glorious past - the penetrating moodiness of XTC's Black Sea, or R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction, comes to mind - while refusing to waste time on idle nostalgia.



    On their 4th full-length album (but 17th vinyl offering if you include previous EPs) the Portland, OR band also rediscover the beauty of firsts. A Colossal Waste of Light marks the first time the band wrote songs remotely (it ended up being fun & weird to send out a very simple version of a song and see who came back first with another part for it�, John Moen looks back), their first reunion at the Destination: Universe studio post-isolation, and their first batch of melodious new tunes since The Accidental Falls, the band's 2020 project with poet, lyricist and Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett (an extra-ordinary pairing that allowed Eyelids' two frontmen/tunesmiths, Chris Slusarenko and John Moen, to find a new, multilayered appreciation for the art of songcraft).

    Description

    Eyelids' new album, A Colossal Waste of Light, does an excellent job of framing the quintet as one of today's most compelling purveyors of lopsided guitar pop workouts and earworm-laden vocal melodies. It also proves that great guitar pop can still evoke favorites from a glorious past - the penetrating moodiness of XTC's Black Sea, or R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction, comes to mind - while refusing to waste time on idle nostalgia.



    On their 4th full-length album (but 17th vinyl offering if you include previous EPs) the Portland, OR band also rediscover the beauty of firsts. A Colossal Waste of Light marks the first time the band wrote songs remotely (it ended up being fun & weird to send out a very simple version of a song and see who came back first with another part for it�, John Moen looks back), their first reunion at the Destination: Universe studio post-isolation, and their first batch of melodious new tunes since The Accidental Falls, the band's 2020 project with poet, lyricist and Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett (an extra-ordinary pairing that allowed Eyelids' two frontmen/tunesmiths, Chris Slusarenko and John Moen, to find a new, multilayered appreciation for the art of songcraft).

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Crawling Off Your Pages
      • 2. Swinging In The Circus
      • 3. That's Not Real At All
      • 4. Only So Much
      • 5. They Said So
      • 6. Runaway, Yeah
      • 7. Colossal Waste of Light
      • 8. The Snowfire Band
      • 9. Everything That I See You See Better (22)
      • 10. Misuse
      • 11. Pink Chair
      • 12. Lyin' In Your Tomb
      • 13. I Can't Be Told

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Crawling Off Your Pages
      • 2. Swinging In The Circus
      • 3. That's Not Real At All
      • 4. Only So Much
      • 5. They Said So
      • 6. Runaway, Yeah

      Side 2

      • 7. Colossal Waste of Light
      • 8. The Snowfire Band
      • 9. Everything That I See You See Better (22)
      • 10. Misuse
      • 11. Pink Chair
      • 12. Lyin' In Your Tomb
      • 13. I Can't Be Told