A Moment in Life That's Right

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A Moment in Life That's Right
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 20, 1998 (1998-04-20)
Recorded09/1996; 03/1997; 09/1997
Genre Indie
Length46:20
Label Looking Glass Workshop
Producer Echo Orbiter, Brian McTear
Echo Orbiter chronology
A Moment in Life That's Right
(1998)
Laughing All the While
(2000)

A Moment in Life That's Right is the first studio album by Echo Orbiter. It was released on Looking Glass Workshop in 1998. [1] "Combining Revolver-era Beatles studio trickery with Syd Barrett-styled songwriting," [2] A Moment in Life That's Right was described as an album of crafty and catchy harmonies, "a new twist to new pop, and a lovely racket indeed." [3] The band has described the album as "designedly autotelic". [4]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Echo Orbiter.

No.TitleLength
1."Long Strange Day (An Evening's Lament)"4:33
2."Friday's Exuberant Smile"4:12
3."Old Man Jimmy's Psychic Emanations"2:51
4."Oh My, What a Morning!"2:57
5."Sunlightshine"3:38
6."Around Merrily Carousel"4:47
7."Ain't It Nice"3:35
8."Trippy Adventure Playground"4:10
9."Moonlight Daydream"4:06
10."Sunflowers & Plumtrees"4:17
11."Have You Got It Yet?"3:01
12."One Thinks of it All in a Honey Drop Dream"4:13

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References

  1. Moment In Life on Discogs.com
  2. Philadelphia Weekly, April 21, 1999/Vol. XXVIII, No. 16 (pg. 70)
  3. INK 19
  4. Echoorbiter.com Archived February 21, 2014, at the Wayback Machine