A Colossal Waste Of Light (CLEAR WITH PURPLE SMOKE VINYL) (Vinyl)
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 7”s and 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).
A1 Crawling Off Your Pages A2 Swinging In The Circus A3 That's Not Real At All A4 Only So Much A5 They Said So A6 Runaway, Yeah B7 Colossal Waste of Light B8 The Snowfire Band B9 Everything That I See You See Better (22) B10 Misuse B11 Pink Chair B12 Lyin' In Your Tomb B13 I Can't Be Told
- Format Detail: LP First Pressing Clear Vinyl w/ Purple Smoke [w/ download card]
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Indie & Alternative
