Dayglo (album) explained

Dayglo
Type:Album
Artist:Love Battery
Cover:Love Battery Dayglo.jpg
Released:1992
Genre:Psychedelic music
Length:40:50
Label:Sub Pop
Producer:Conrad Uno, Jon Auer
Prev Title:Between The Eyes
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:Far Gone
Next Year:1993

Dayglo is the second studio album by the American band Love Battery.[1] [2] It was released in 1992 by Sub Pop.[3]

The band supported the album with a North American tour that included shows with L7.[4]

Critical reception

The Chicago Tribune noted that, "unlike some of its upper-left-coast peers, Love Battery takes a more textured, psychedelic approach to modern rock."[5] USA Today determined that the band "adds discernible melody, trance-inducing rhythms, guitar tremolo and trippy effects, plus lyrics shaded by a very distant influence, Georgia-based R.E.M."[6]

The Seattle Times deemed the music "a dense, psychedelic-tinged sound that has more in common with the English 'dream pop' movement of My Bloody Valentine and Ride than the Seattle grunge sound of Mudhoney and Tad."[7] The Columbus Dispatch called the album "the right mix of '60s garage psychedelia and Neil Young-style music-as-primal-scream-therapy."[8]

Track listing

  1. "Out of Focus" – 5:23
  2. "Foot" – 3:48
  3. "Damaged" – 3:58
  4. "See Your Mind" – 3:21
  5. "Side (With You)" – 5:00
  6. "Cool School (Trane of Thought)" – 4:27
  7. "Sometimes" – 3:23
  8. "Blonde" – 4:19
  9. "Dayglo" – 3:42
  10. "23 Modern Stories" – 3:29

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Dayglo by Love Battery . Melody Maker . Apr 18, 1992 . 68 . 16 . 31.
  2. Web site: TrouserPress.com :: Love Battery. www.trouserpress.com.
  3. News: Pahnelas . Bill . Love Battery . Richmond Times-Dispatch . March 26, 1992 . C7.
  4. Web site: L7, LOVE BATTERY'S METALLIC MOVEMENT. Mark. Jenkins. June 19, 1992. www.washingtonpost.com.
  5. News: Heim . Chris . Love Battery, Thursday at Lounge Ax . Chicago Tribune . 27 Mar 1992 . Friday . Q.
  6. News: Gundersen . Edna . Love Battery . USA Today . 8 July 1992 . 5D.
  7. News: West . Phil . LOVE BATTERY GIVES A PARTY THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY: FOR FREE . The Seattle Times . January 31, 1992 . Tempo . 30.
  8. News: Eichenberger . Bill . Love Battery all charged up . The Columbus Dispatch . March 26, 1992 . Weekender . 8.