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Ill Lit : Tom Cruise
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Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity.
Genre: Country: Country Rock
Release Date: 2006
Tom Cruise Record Label: Ill Lit
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Across Country 3:54 Album Only
Satan's doing fine without me 4:32 Album Only
Worth the Wait 3:07 Album Only
The Ghost of Presston Brown 4:30 Album Only
Los Angeles 3:23 Album Only
The Bridge in Tracy 4:55 Album Only
The Homewrecking Ball 3:40 Album Only
This is not a good time 4:17 Album Only
The Pale Spiritual 2:27 Album Only
You left after work 3:09 Album Only
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Album Notes

"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." - Sound Collector ------------------
"Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity, ill lit's music moves the mind and mesmerizes the heart." - Franz Wright
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"a pop-perfect bit of alt-country, beset by a frail, ethereal synth whisper, like a ghost shooting through the farm, blowing up stalks of hay before finally crashing face-first into a wall" - Pitchfork Media ------------------
"a perfect meeting of the old and the new" - CMJ

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REVIEWS

Great stuff
author: Tom C
If you buy it, you won't be disappointed. Their best yet, and that is saying something.
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Sincere Alt Folk (only have 10 words, so..) "Me Like"
author: 2nd Wind
I've come to expect a certain purity of sound from this band, and was not disappointed with "Tom Cruise" (although I fail to find a connection to Tom Cruise). There's a bit more electronica than in previous CDs, and it works. I especially liked "Satan's Doing Fine Without Me" - which I would venture is the epitomy of the mix of the alt/country-alt/"buzz-blips". They know how to get you comfortably along for the ride and then they gun it with catchy, rolling bass-laden segments (think "I Need You's" CD standout "Preston Rules". This is one of those CDs that I can listen to over and over - and have.
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author: martinesque
i could write a million things about the greatness of ill lit. but really, the most important thing is this: ill lit makes me feel better.
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The best 11 bucks you'll spend all year!
author: Dion
This band has made a lot of great music and this CD is just perfect - my favorite so far this year. If you like the songs that are available to play on this site than you'll love the whole CD, every song is truly beautiful - don't hesitate to get it!
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