Hilario (album) explained

Hilario
Type:studio
Artist:The Inbreds
Cover:Himmmknv.jpg
Released:1992[1]
Recorded:1990–1992
Genre:Indie rock
Label:PF Records
Producer:
  • Dave Clark
  • Grant Ethier
  • Lewis Melville
  • Darryl Otis Smith
Next Title:Kombinator
Next Year:1994

Hilario is the debut full-length album from Canadian indie rock duo The Inbreds, released in 1992 on PF Records.[2] The album compiles songs from the band's early demo cassettes Darn Foul Dog, Let's Get Together, Egrog, and the split 7-inch single "Shermans/Inbreds," as well as some unreleased material.[3] [4] The album was a hit on Canadian campus radio stations.[5]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote: "Although it’s clear the two had the architecture of their simple sound down from the very beginning, it took their songwriting a few months to shed a weakness for conceptual gimmickry ('Granpa’s Heater,' 'T.S. Eliot') and find a reliable perch from which to fly."[2] Billboard called it "charming" but "spotty."[6]

Personnel

References

  1. Web site: The Inbreds - Hilario . zunior.com . zunior.com . 23 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Inbreds . Trouser Press . 22 July 2020.
  3. "The Inbreds didn't expect to find success: But innovative Juno-nominated duo is making some big waves". Calgary Herald, March 7, 1996.
  4. Web site: The Inbreds | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  5. Book: Barclay . Michael . Have Not Been the Same: The Canrock Renaissance, 1985-1995 . 2011 . ECW Press . 72.
  6. Web site: Inbreds Square Off With The Power Of Two On TAG Debut. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. Inc. July 15, 1995. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.