Dayglo (album)

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Dayglo
Love Battery Dayglo.jpg
Studio album by
Released1992
Genre Psychedelic music
Length40:50
Label Sub Pop
Producer Conrad Uno, John Auer
Love Battery chronology
Between The Eyes
(1990)
Dayglo
(1992)
Far Gone
(1993)

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

Contents

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

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Chicago Tribune noted that, "unlike some of its upper-left-coast peers, Love Battery takes a more textured, psychedelic approach to modern rock." [6] 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." [7]

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." [8] The Columbus Dispatch called the album "the right mix of '60s garage psychedelia and Neil Young-style music-as-primal-scream-therapy." [9]

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

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References

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