A Colossal Waste Of Light

by Eyelids

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mike formanek Beautiful pop melodies coupled with some maximum riffage. Infectious and you will be dancing shortly Favorite track: They Said So.

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1.	Crawling Off Your Pages 02:50	buy track
2.	Swinging In The Circus 03:58	buy track
3.	That's Not Real At All (B. Midweek Pg. 207) 03:39	buy track
4.	Only So Much 03:46	buy track
5.	They Said So 03:26 video	buy track
6.	Runaway, Yeah 03:59	buy track
7.	Colossal Waste of Light 03:19 video	buy track
8.	The Snowfire Band 03:36	buy track
9.	Everything That I See You See Better (22) 02:41	buy track
10.	Misuse 02:38	buy track
11.	Pink Chair 03:40	buy track
12.	Lyin' In Your Tomb 02:18 video	buy track
13.	I Can't Be Told 03:40	buy track

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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).

Most importantly, A Colossal Waste of Light is the first Eyelids album to feature new bass player Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom). Eyelids had shared bills with Krummenacher a few times before he moved to Portland, but once he arrived he quickly found himself in a new town where everything was suddenly locked down. Luckily enough, there were eventual get-togethers in Slusarenko’s backyard and, finally one day, a most coveted question: “do you want me to play bass for your band?”. The artistry he brings to A Colossal Waste of Light is seasoned and fresh in equal measure. Alongside Jonathan Drews’ expressive yet mysteriously ethereal guitar playing and Paulie Pulvirenti’s imaginative and powerful drumming, the finished LP is the perfect summation of Eyelids’ new and old ways of collaborating together.

As for the record’s title, Slusarenko notes that it conjures “the parallel lines of dearly holding onto some sort of version of hope, all the while knowing everything's going to shit.” With all the feel of a lost late 70s classic, A Colossal Waste Of Light sounds both majestic and playfully open to multifaceted meanings and moods. It’s haunted and vibrant all at once, while putting some kicks back towards melancholy. Every track feels like its own journey and having songs from two songwriters at the top of their game makes for a most dynamic, immersive narrative as their songs follow one another throughout. As a whole, it’s thrilling, moving, mercurial, absorbing, soothing, and unmistakably Eyelids.

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released March 10, 2023

Produced by PETER BUCK & EYELIDS
Engineered by VICTOR NASH at Destination : Universe, PDX
Mixed by JONATHAN DREWS at Last of the Explorers, PDX
Mastered by HEBA KADRY, NYC

PETER BUCK 12-String on LIYT & ICBT
VICTOR NASH Horns on M
KAITLYN NI DONOVAN Strings on M

Heads by JO HAMILTON
Bodies by JOHN MOEN
Photography by JOHN CLARK
Layout & Design by ROB JONES

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Eyelids Portland, Oregon

NEW LP: 'A Colossal Waste Of Light' out now. Former and current members of: GUIDED BY VOICES, STEPHEN MALKMUS/JICKS, THE DECEMBERISTS, CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN.
EYELIDS have turned inwards to their loves of New Zealand/Flying Nun guitar buzz , their teenage L.A. paisley underground obsessions, haunts of early Athens and all things beautiful, lopsided and rock. We give you fair warning. ... more

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