Eccsame the Photon Band
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| Studio album by Lilys | ||||
| Released | December 1994 | |||
| Recorded | Studio 45, Hartford, Connecticut, 1994 | |||
| Genre | Dream pop/Space rock | |||
| Label | spinART , Frontier Records | |||
| Producer | Kurt Heasley, Rich Costey | |||
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| CMJ New Music Monthly | (neutral) |
Eccsame the Photon Band is the second full-length 1994 album by the American indie rock band, Lilys, originally released on the spinART label. The album saw the band move towards dream pop. The notoriously nomadic Kurt Heasley refers to this period of Lilys history as EPOCH I, also included is his first seven-inch single " February Fourteenth", the mini LP A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns and Lilys' first full-length album, In The Presence of Nothing. Eccsame the Photon Band was recorded at Mike Deming's Studio 45 in Hartford, Connecticut, largely as duo of Heasley and Harold Evans (of Poole).
Eccsame the Photon Band marks Kurt Heasley's Lilys shift to a slower, moodier, and more spaced-out sound. “I went closest to what my 23 year-old brain could stand with Eccsame— to the edge of my own mortality and sanity", Heasley says. “as far as the period, the energy, the zeitgeist of what we were intending, that was the only time we ever did it.”
Robert Christgau described the band's sound as "amplified watercolors".
While Lilys' musical style and approach shifts continually, the early recordings, including the stunning debut album In the Presence of Nothing and Eccsame the Photon Band, were strongly influenced by My Bloody Valentine. The first seven-inch single “February Fourteenth,” released on Slumberland in 1991, even gives direct tribute to their impact. It’s important to note that MBV’s own frontman Kevin Shields is a huge fan of Heasley’s work, and in his book on MBV's Loveless for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series, writer Mike McGonigal called Lilys “the only post-MBV ‘shoegaze’ band that mattered."
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