(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: Eyelids
Album Title: A colossal waste of light
Year released: 2023
Details: ‘purple lightning’ coloured vinyl
The skinny: Two weeks in a row and two vinyl love posts and both were amongst my favourite albums of last year. Where last week’s was just on the outside of my top ten faves, this week’s was just outside the top five. As I wrote in my end of year posts, Eyelids are a band I had not heard of at the beginning of last year, despite having been around a good while. I actually heard about the release of “A colossal waste of light”, the group’s fourth album, from a posting on The Decemberists’ Instagram account, whose drummer, John Moen, is one of the Portland based band’s principal members. Co-produced by R.E.M.’s Peter Buck, I fell hard for the hook-laden jangle pop and an album that lacks any real skippable tracks. After two listens, I was on the internet to track down a copy for my record shelves and found this rather pretty pressing on clear vinyl with purple splatter, aka purple lighting. It looks and sounds great on the platter.
Standout track: “Colossal waste of light”
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