ILL LIT: Tom Cruise

Ill Lit

Tom Cruise

© 2006 ASCAP (837101167673)

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Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity.

tracks

1 Across Country
2 Satan's doing fine without me
3 Worth the Wait
4 The Ghost of Presston Brown
5 Los Angeles
6 The Bridge in Tracy
7 The Homewrecking Ball
8 This is not a good time
9 The Pale Spiritual
10 You left after work

notes

"ill lit gives us songs that are elegies of American lostness, road music for a new breed of pioneers. Any person who is no longer young, and not yet old: rootless human beings of scattered family, no land, and only a home away from no-home. Who are nonetheless burdened with lustful urges to build something, somewhere; to say something, to someone: to call out of the ruins of all this glorious fucked-up American freedom we own." - Sound Collector ------------------
"Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity, ill lit's music moves the mind and mesmerizes the heart." - Franz Wright
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"a pop-perfect bit of alt-country, beset by a frail, ethereal synth whisper, like a ghost shooting through the farm, blowing up stalks of hay before finally crashing face-first into a wall" - Pitchfork Media ------------------
"a perfect meeting of the old and the new" - CMJ

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  • Great stuff
    author: Tom C

    If you buy it, you won't be disappointed. Their best yet, and that is saying something.

  • Sincere Alt Folk (only have 10 words, so..) "Me Like"
    author: 2nd Wind

    I've come to expect a certain purity of sound from this band, and was not disappointed with "Tom Cruise" (although I fail to find a connection to Tom Cruise). There's a bit more electronica than in previous CDs, and it works. I especially liked "Satan's Doing Fine Without Me" - which I would venture is the epitomy of the mix of the alt/country-alt/"buzz-blips". They know how to get you comfortably along for the ride and then they gun it with catchy, rolling bass-laden segments (think "I Need You's" CD standout "Preston Rules". This is one of those CDs that I can listen to over and over - and have.

  • rad
    author: martinesque

    i could write a million things about the greatness of ill lit. but really, the most important thing is this: ill lit makes me feel better.

  • The best 11 bucks you'll spend all year!
    author: Dion

    This band has made a lot of great music and this CD is just perfect - my favorite so far this year. If you like the songs that are available to play on this site than you'll love the whole CD, every song is truly beautiful - don't hesitate to get it!

  • author: CD Baby

    With whispers of Sparklehorse, Grandaddy and Wilco and trickles of country, americana, electronic and emo rock bleeding together, Ill Lit sculpts crackly and lush, mellow and crispy little yankee, poppy, creamy songs of dreamy practicality and wistful no-nonsenseness. Where the realms of lush, sonic abundance meld with eroded, acoustic, weathered rawness, their album, "Tom Cruise" is there to capture every little explosion of magic and mystery. It might be called electronic country or dream pop americana or as they say, "Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity" but any way you look at it, this is an album worth making a fuss about.

  • Another perfect album from Ill Lit
    author: Tim

    It is impossible for Ill Lit to write a bad song, and Tom Cruise goes on to prove that point. This is currently and will be one of the top 5 albums of 2006 in my book.

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