Excerpts from a Love Circus

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Excerpts from a Love Circus
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 9, 1996
Genre Alternative rock, dream pop, folk rock
Length51:52
Label 4AD
Producer Paul Mahern, Lisa Germano, Bill Bottrell
Lisa Germano chronology
Geek the Girl
(1994)
Excerpts from a Love Circus
(1996)
Slide
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Entertainment Weekly B+ [2]
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Excerpts from a Love Circus is an album by the American musician Lisa Germano. [4] [5] It was released in 1996 by 4AD. [6]

Contents

In the United Kingdom, "Small Heads" was released as a single in August 1996, just prior to the album. Around this same time, Germano recorded an album with the members of Giant Sand under the name OP8; although originally commissioned by 4AD, the label passed on the album ( Slush ), which led to its release on Thirsty Ear Recordings in February 1997. In North America, a remix of "I Love a Snot" by Tchad Blake was serviced to radio and retail in April 1997. Another Germano collaboration of sorts was released later that year, when another Excerpts track, "Lovesick", was remixed by drum & bass producer The Underdog (aka Trevor Jackson, later of Playgroup), and released as a single on his Output Recordings label.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Germano adds trembling violins to other aural oddities, like the plinking of a toy piano and the purring of her cat ... Those quirky elements help lighten the troubled lullabies." [2] The Tucson Weekly thought that "Germano's music is dreamy, with her haunting violin and keyboards coloring the drifty, mercurial arrangements." [7]

Track listing

  1. "Baby on the Plane"
  2. "A Beautiful Schizophrenic/"Where's Miamo-Tutti?" by Dorothy"
  3. "Bruises"
  4. "I Love a Snot"
  5. "Forget It, It's a Mystery"
  6. "Victoria's Secret/"Just a Bad Dream" by Miamo-Tutti"
  7. "Small Heads"
  8. "We Suck"
  9. "Lovesick"
  10. "Singing to the Birds"
  11. "Messages from Sophia/"There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" by Lisa and Dorothy"
  12. "Big, Big World"
  13. "Fun Fun Fun for Everyone (Acoustic)" *
  14. "Tom, Dick and Harry" *
  15. "Messages from Sophia (Instrumental)" *

All songs were written by Lisa Germano.

Three of the album's tracks also contain interludes which feature home recordings of two of Germano's cats, Dorothy and Miamo-Tutti. Contrary to the track listing shown on the album's packaging, "Where's Miamo-Tutti?" actually appears during the first seventeen seconds of track 3. "Just a Bad Dream" begins at the 4:19 mark of track 6, and "There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" takes up roughly the last minute of track 11.

A later edition of Excerpts, re-released by 4AD in 1999, contained tracks 2-4 from the "Small Heads" single added to the end as bonus tracks (denoted above with *), but have since been removed for subsequent editions. The song "Tom, Dick and Harry" was also performed by Germano on the OP8 album Slush.

"Small Heads", "I Love A Snot" and "Lovesick" all received considerate airplay on College & Alternative radio in America as well as the UK.

Personnel

Kenny Aronoff, Bill Bottrell, Dane Clark, Dorothy, Emily Goethals, Glenn Hicks, John Hicks, Demian Hostetter, Mark Maher, Paul Mahern, Miamo-Tutti, Allana Redecki, Craig Ross, Josh Silbert, Jake Smith, John Strohm, Thor, Wyndham Wallace. (Individual credits were not listed.)

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