I Hope It Lands

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I Hope It Lands
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Studio album by
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Released1996
RecordedCoast Recorders, San Francisco, California
Genre Indie rock
Length40:10
Label Communion
Producer Gibbs Chapman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
Strangers from the Universe
(1994)		I Hope It Lands
(1996)		 Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
(2001)

I Hope It Lands is an album by the American band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. [1] [2] It was released in 1996 through Communion Records. [3] [4]

Contents

Music journalist Andrew Earles described the music as "experimental" and "insane", and said that it incorporates elements of "left-field pop". [4]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Orlando Sentinel Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

The Orlando Sentinel called the album "another mad collection of brief sound collages, twisted pop tunes and fractured chunks of art-rock." [6] The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded that "their songs are like singing telegrams from the distant cosmic spring that flows down to both Sonic Youth and Captain Beefheart." [7] Trouser Press declared that "the band has the miraculous group-mind of a flock of birds, and the record flows like nothing they’ve ever done before—even the little noise-twiddles are part of the record’s grand mid-air arc." [8]

Brian Way of AllMusic: "Although uneven in spots, I Hope It Lands ranks among the Thinking Fellers' finest. And if it didn't exactly make the band a household name, it surely pleased the band's core constituency of Bay Area and college-circuit geekrockers. And for those it didn't please, the band titled an agitated off-key instrumental just for them: 'The Rampaging Fuckers of Anything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere.'" [5] In the 2014 reference book Gimme Indie Rock , music journalist Andrew Earles wrote that the album was "one that was among the most rewarding options for indie and underground devotees looking to expand their listening pallettes." [4]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.

No.TitleLength
1."The Poem"1:04
2."A Lamb's Lullaby"3:17
3."Empty Cup"2:59
4."I Hope It Lands"1:19
5."Lizard's Dream"3:58
6."Cornad Adrift Toward Mars"1:15
7."Elgin Miller"4:27
8."Hudson Bottom Dance"1:42
9."Jagged Ambush Bug"0:17
10."Brains"3:16
11."Rampaging Fuckers of Anything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere"1:16
12."Cuckoo at the World"1:35
13."Inspector Fat Ass"0:53
14."The Arbeiter"3:04
15."Triple X"5:48
16."Booth Delirium"1:47
17."Hills"2:13

Personnel

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Production and additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Stubbs, David (April 20, 1996). "Albums — I Hope It Lands by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Melody Maker. Vol. 73, no. 16. p. 36.
  2. ↑ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Perfect Sound Forever.
  3. ↑ "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. 1 2 3 Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock. Voyageur Press. p. 330.
  5. 1 2 Way, Brian. "I Hope It Lands". AllMusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  6. 1 2 Gettelman, Parry (May 17, 1996). "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 6.
  7. ↑ Terrell, Steve (September 6, 1996). "Terrell's Tune-Up". Pasatiempo. The Santa Fe New Mexican. p. 18.
  8. ↑ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Trouser Press. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
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