Title: Transmission of All the Good-Byes Artist: Lilium Label: Smooch Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 655035040820 Genre: Indie Rock/Pop Release Date: 2005-07-19 Number of Discs: 1
The titles are in some cases bluntly descriptive: The ambient drones of "Swell" loom and recede accordingly, and the guitar harmonics and bowed-strings of "The Film Box" are accompanied by the whirring of a film projector. "Four Basses," meanwhile, is exactly that, the interweaving parts layered in the methodical manner of Tubular Bells (albeit restricted to a more agreeable minute and a half). Others are less prosaic. "Loveless Road" is a delightful union of guitar arpeggios and wistful contrails of melodica driven along by a lazily martial snare, while the gorgeous "Sleeping Inside" employs yawning bowed bass and mournful clarinet to shade a multi-tracked guitar instrumental with a melody reminiscent of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat."
Tracks: 1.1 Sleeping Inside 1.2 Swell 1.3 Beginning of the Water Line 1.4 End of the Water Line 1.5 Fugue 1.6 Loveless Road 1.7 Far 1.8 The Film Box 1.9 Four Basses 1.10 Goodbye Llano 1.11 Erado 1.12 Transmission of All the Goodbyes
