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It's Heavy in Here | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 26, 1995 | |||
Recorded | Musicraft, Wilsonville, Oregon and Sound Impressions, Milwaukie, Oregon | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 41:07 | |||
Label | Sub Pop | |||
Producer | Eric Matthews | |||
Eric Matthews chronology | ||||
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Singles from It's Heavy in Here | ||||
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It's Heavy in Here is the first solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Eric Matthews. [2] [3] It was released by Sub Pop Records on September 26, 1995. [4] A track from the album, "Fanfare", was released as a single, charting at No. 95. [5]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [6] |
Robert Christgau | C+ [7] |
Entertainment Weekly | A− [8] |
The New York Times concluded that Matthews "further defines the intersection where the self-styled pop arrangers of the 60's, the new-wave romantics of the 90's and the chamber-music composers of the 19th century meet." [9] Rolling Stone noted that "repeated listens to It's Heavy in Here open up the comparisons to Robert Kirby's beautiful orchestration of English folk hero Nick Drake's work and even John Cale's haunting arrangements of Nico's solo material." [10] Greg Kot, of the Chicago Tribune , listed the album as the fourth best of 1995. [11]
All tracks are written by Eric Matthews
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Fanfare" | 2:53 |
2. | "Forging Plastic Pain" | 3:14 |
3. | "Soul Nation Select Them" | 3:21 |
4. | "Faith to Clay" | 2:21 |
5. | "Angels for Crime" | 3:01 |
6. | "Fried Out Broken Girl" | 3:27 |
7. | "Lust Takes Time" | 2:40 |
8. | "Hop and Tickle" | 2:56 |
9. | "Three-Cornered Moon" | 3:06 |
10. | "Distant Mother Reality" | 2:18 |
11. | "Flight and Lion" | 3:38 |
12. | "Poisons Will Pass Me" | 2:36 |
13. | "Sincere Sensation" | 2:54 |
14. | "Fanfare (reprise)" | 2:18 |
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