Eyelids - A Colossal Waste Of Light [Clear & Purple Smoke LP]

Cat. no: LPJBR224C
Format: LP Clear & Purple Smoke
Barcode: 843563141373
Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
Genre: Indie

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 frsts. A Colossal Waste of Light marks the frst 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 frst with another part for it, John Moen looks back), their frst reunion at the Destination: Universe studio post-isolation, and their frst 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 fnd a new, multilayered appreciation for the art of songcraft).

LP Clear & Purple Smoke Tracks: Crawling Off Your Pages / Swinging In The Circus / That's Not Real At All / Only So Much / They Said So / Runaway, Yeah / Colossal Waste of Light / The Snowfre Band / Everything That I See You See Better (22) / Misuse / Pink Chair / Lyin' In Your Tomb / I Can't Be Told