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Earnest vocals tinged with honeyed twang rising over the soothing white-noise of loops, beats and a battered boombox.
Genre: Rock: Americana
Release Date: 2002
Wacmusic
Ill Lit
Record Label: Badman
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Diner Girls 4:47 Album Only
2. Welshratz 4:13 Album Only
3. Prestonhood 4:12 Album Only
4. Beating the Daylights Out of My Nightlife 4:48 Album Only
5. Here's to the Rescue 4:03 Album Only
6. Endlessly 4:35 Album Only
7. Whitewashing 4:25 Album Only
8. I Told You So 4:34 Album Only
9. The Replacement Song 3:41 Album Only
10. Options 5:28 Album Only
11. Other People's Wives 3:15 Album Only
12. I Would Be True 2:37 Album Only
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Album Notes

Containing the best elements of vintage Americana and electronic cut-and-paste sonic pastiches, ill lit's debut album "WACMusic" endeavors to turn the perfect pop song on its head. ill lit is the brainchild of d. ahearn and m. moser, both veterans of the Brooklyn music scene in their former bands Barakumin and Men.

Their unique construct of ambient home-recorded noise serving as background to a more traditional rendering of folk/country music might seem, at first, overly ambitious, but the resulting sound is inspired. The album is a sonic marvel - earnest vocals tinged with honeyed twang rising over the soothing white-noise of loops, beats and a battered boombox. Add to the mixture lyrics that seem to have sprung from the mind of Hunter Thompson and Cormac McCarthy's bastard love-child and there you have what is so appealing about the band. ill lit makes music that is both fantasy and disillusionment, loyalty and revolution, broken-hearted but ever hopeful.

"Country harmonies, ambient recorded noise, slow distant melodies, minimal production - their sound is of sincerity and disaffection...worth tracking down." (8 out of 10) -Vice Magazine

ill lit gives us songs that are elegies of American lostness, road music for a new breed of pioneers. Any person who is no longer young, and not yet old: rootless human beings of scattered family, no land, and only a home away from no-home. Who are nonetheless burdened with lustful urges to build something, somewhere; to say something, to someone: to call out of the ruins of all this glorious fucked-up American freedom we own.
- as taken from Sound Collector Magazine

Produced and recorded by D. Ahearn, M. Moser, and Dylan Magierek (Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters), Erland Oye (Kings of Convenience), Gardener) in Brooklyn, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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REVIEWS

Not too shabby...
author: H
                            
Very unique sound to this album, I thoroughly enjoy listening to it, particularly on the road...

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Whatever it is...
author: Richard Dunlap
                            
I love it. I wouldn't call this "country", but I DO miss it if I haven't heard it for a while. In fact, I felt that way before I even bought it, just based on the samples. I have nothing else anything like this in my collection; it's irreplaceable. 5 stars for very fresh settings of otherwise conventional song forms; a unique sound, and for the simple beauty and sincerity that shines through the clever quirkiness. If I were in a critical mood, I might have some issues with the lead vocals, but those are washed away by the sweet harmonies.

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Mild mellow twang yet uncontrollably urban
author: Margo
                            
I keep reading reviews on this CD which describe it as country.  After listening to it, I decided you better be one heck of an urban cowboy to be calling this country.  There's no love'n and leav'n, and songs about big trucks on this album.  The female artist on the CD defiantly has that twang in her voice that you always hear in country songs and blue grass, but if it wasn't for that one little spice, then I don't think anyone would deem it as country.  Most of the songs are pretty mellow songs, with great lyrics, and funky sounds and back ground noises. There are a few songs that really remind you that you’re listening to an artist not some stupid pop performer.  There's one song on the CD, maybe two, that I've not yet been able to really get into and would rather move on to the next song.  That's why I rated it a 3, and after putting it down for a few days I didn't miss it- extremely.  But I definitely like it and I'm glad I got it.  I look forward to buying more of Ill Lit down the old road- oh and that road is a city road, not a country road.
Hope you enjoy it too!
M

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Awesome
author: Genevieve Carlson
                            
I think this CD is awesome.  The different sounds they incorporated make very unique.

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