Selected

Artist: Lilys
Label: File 13
Category: Music

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Format: EP
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 644110983428
EAN: 0644110983428
ASIN: B000051JRK

Release Date: 2001-03-20

Selected

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Tracks:

Any Several Sundays
Touch the Water
Peerless
Won't Make You (Sleepy)
Peerless II

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Turning to British Invasion-style power pop in the vein of the Byrds and the Kinks, the Lilys continue the reinvention that began with Better Can't Make Your Life Better (1996), blasting out blunt guitar riffs with a tuneful, Beach Boys-y melodic sense. Still, the band haven't forgotten their feedback-laden roots--"Touch the Water" has a distinctly familiar trace of My Bloody Valentine around the edges. But it's delivered with such jagged, lo-fi joy, you barely catch the guitar pedal chaos roiling in the background. Likewise, "Won't Make You (Sleepy)" glides along on a spacey little harmony that could easily be on a Ride album, but it floats atop scrappy drum fills and a fat, bass-heavy melody. It's a raucous, messy vibe that would sound perfect on scratchy vinyl, and in this band's hands, provokes a buoyantly alive brand of rock & roll. <I>--Matthew Cooke</I>

Customer Reviews:

More Lilys To Go Around.......2007-04-29

Everyone talks about how the Lilys always change genre's for each album, and while all styles are brilliant, and all the albums are great, there's not enough focus on the moments where all of these styles diverge.

The only Lilys release that successfully does this is this, the Selected EP.

Two of the songs here were written during the first period of the Lilys (In the Presence Of Nothing era) and therefore both contain beautiful, sad, and spectral vocal melodies that get me everytime.

However, Kurt Heasley uses the style of mid-period Lilys (60's retro stylings, tastefully executed) to re-record these once lost songs (only really captured in demo form). So you get what kind of sounds like the dreamiest aspects of MBV as captured by the Byrds. Except no where near as simple as that.

"Touch The Water" is a perfect pop song, except this time, written during the retro-rock incarnation and recorded as an early-style recording. What I mean by this is beautiful harmonies over as one refer called "a shoegazer glaze." So good.

If you are already a Lilys fan, this is def. for you. It also serves as a nice introduction, with a little bit of all the things that make Lilys one of my favorite groups.

Better than most.......2002-08-08

While certainly not a major work by any means, this mini EP gives enough of a taste of Kurt & Co. to keep us going until January 2003 when precollections is released. And with a name like precollections its nice to see that Kurt is teasing with returning to his noisy roots. After all, he probably gets pretty tired of folks comparing him to the kinks and the zombies all of the time. Once again embracing an early Lilys sound - the stand out here is Won't Make You Sleepy - an instantly catchy song that you may feel the need to play again and again. Even Peerless and Peerless II have something to offer in their electronic simplicity (very much like what Lilys had to offer on their Darla - Bliss Out outing) Worth a listen for fans of old nineties indie rock and lilys fans who like the band enough to believe that they can stop sounding like "The Kinks" and still make some cool music.

not a landmark, but quite good.......2001-03-22

Lighten up, it's only a few songs. Don't try to compare it to 'The 3 Way', or 'Better...' This is more of a stop-gap one-off than a "major opus" and, seen in that light, I'm very happy. Hey, they lost the demos to a couple of these old songs & felt it would be cheeky to record them for posterity with all of their newfound studio prowess. Consider it a quick love note to fans everywhere. The results range from dicey (the 2 short instrumental experiments-whatsits) to epic masterpiece (Won't Make You (Sleepy)). In between we get an interesting backward-look through the new-improved lens via the Byrdsian "The Any Several Sundays" and a really quirkily-compressed Neo-Eno "Touch the Water" which yes they've covered twice before, all 3 times in a different tonal universe. Perhaps this song is a good indicator of what their future full-length work might sound like. Who can say? In any case, it's cheap enough to justify the brevity, but frankly I'd buy about anything from Kurt for a whole lot more. His throwaways are worth more than most bands' career highs.

Let Down........2001-03-09

This was a let down after BETTER..., SERVICES..., & THREE WAY. If this is the direction Heasley is headed in, as one reviewer states, then I'm not sure I'll even be buying the next LP. There are those who didn't like the change from shoegazing to power pop, and there are probably those who don't like the change from power pop to what's on SELECTED. Still, Heasley can always be hailed for moving ahead and beyond and trying something new. Hail Hail.

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