Everything Wrong Is Imaginary

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Everything Wrong Is Imaginary
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 31, 2006 [1]
Genre Alternative rock
Label Manifesto
Producer Michael Musmanno
Lilys chronology
Precollection
(2003)
Everything Wrong Is Imaginary
(2006)

Everything Wrong Is Imaginary is a 2006 album by Lilys, released on the Manifesto label.

Contents

Background

The album was written during a traumatic period in Lilys frontman Kurt Heasley's life; His partner disappeared after a psychotic episode and returned to her family leaving Heasley to look after his three children. Heasley therefore worked on the album mainly at home in his spare time. [2] [1] The recordings were then sent to producer Michael Musmanno, who finished the tracks with session musicians. [2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Pitchfork Media (7.4/10) [4]
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Sunday Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Washington Post (favorable) [6]

Jason MacNeil of PopMatters described the album as (along with previous album Precollection ), "the closest thing to Britrock from a Yankee band I heard in a long time", going on to say "There are too many things right about this album to make you believe it's imaginary". [1] Patrick Rapa of the Philadelphia City Paper described it as "one of Heasley's finest yet—10 occasionally noisy, often catchy rock songs". [7] Marc Hogan of Pitchfork Media opined that "much of the record's beauty lies [in] its dizzying production", but wrote that it "never quite feels like the career-culminating record it should be." [4] Mark Edwards of the Sunday Times identified the album's diversity as one of its strengths. [5] Eugene P. Sorricraft from the Highbold Press declared it, "a wonderful expulsion of everything that is otherwise lacking in this sad world". [8] [ citation needed ]

Track listing

  1. "Black Carpet Magic" (Heasley) 4:33
  2. "With Candy" (Heasley) 2:36
  3. "A Diana's Diana" (Heasley) 4:06
  4. "Knocked on the Fortune Teller's Door" (Heasley) 4:29
  5. "Where the Night Goes" (Heasley) 3:16
  6. "The Night Sun Over San Juan" (Heasley) 3:45
  7. "Still in All the Glitter" (Heasley) 3:51
  8. "Everything Wrong Is Imaginary" (Heasley) 4:34
  9. "O.I.C.U.R." (Heasley) 5:31
  10. "Scott Free" (Rappaport) 2:13

Personnel

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