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Track Listing
1. Brother
2. Little Heaven
3. Good Intentions
4. Hobbit on the Rocks
5. Are We Afraid
6. So Alive
7. All in All
8. All Right
9. Janitor - (previously unreleased)
10. Chicken
11. Hope
12. All She Said
| Details | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Toad The Wet Sprocket: Dean Dinning, Randy Guss, Todd Nichols, Glen Phillips.
Producers: Marvin Etzioni, Gavin Mackillop, Toad The Wet Sprocket.
Engineers: Gavin Mackillop.
Includes liner notes by Toad The Wet Sprocket.
IN LIGHT SYRUP is a collection of rarities from throughout Toad The Wet Sprocket's career, including three tracks ("Chicken," "We Are Afraid" and "Hobbit On The Rocks") that were previously available only by mail-order from the group's fan club.
As collections of B-sides, compilation tracks and other hard-to-find knickknacks go, Toad The Wet Sprocket's IN LIGHT SYRUP actually feels like a unified body of work. This has more than a little something to do with the Santa Barbara quartet's timeless guitar-pop sound, and the way they filter it through an '80s kaleidoscope. A careful listen to Glenn Philips' and Todd Nichols' songs can distill their influences: a little U2 here, a little XTC there (a giveaway, since they cite Andy Partridge as a major influence on "Hobbit On The Rocks"), a whole mess of R.E.M. all over the place. Even some late period Elvis Costello can be spotted in the interplay between willful but mellow guitars and thoughtful word-turns--this is, after all, a band named after a Monty Python skit. And like these artists, Toad are consumate craftsmen (just listen to the "Like A Rolling Stone"-style organ that decorates "Brother"), which may be the ultimate reason why IN LIGHT SYRUP sounds like a striking whole.
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