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The Family Album
The Family Album is the only full-length by Lucibel Crater, the Brooklyn trio of Leah Coloff, Paul Chuffo and me. Ten songs, released February 12, 2008 on Searching Eye Records and mixed by Bryce Goggin.
Lou Reed plays guitar on “Threadbare Funeral.” It is the only guitar on the record.
The songs1. There Was a Time. 2. Your Mean Mouth. 3. Into the Bushes. 4. Threadbare Funeral, featuring Lou Reed. 5. Next of Kin. 6. Blue Stationwagon. 7. Where You Are. 8. Bones. 9. Swimmers. 10. Could_i.
The songs
Ross Christopher at awaken music picked out “Where You Are,” “There was a Time” and “Threadbare Funeral.” MP3 Troll noted the Lou Reed guitar in May 2008, before the reviews. Coloff sings and plays cello; Chuffo plays drums; I play keys, bass, loops, Kyma and the Continuum.
Vogue Italia, January 2009: Ten muscular tracks and only one guitar, Lou Reed’s.
Listen
The creditThe Family Album, Searching Eye Records, 2008, by Lucibel Crater: Leah Coloff, cello and voice; Paul Chuffo, drums; Sarth Calhoun, keys, bass, loops, Kyma and Continuum. Lou Reed, guitar, on “Threadbare Funeral.” Mixed by Bryce Goggin. On Spotify and Apple Music.
I can’t begin to express how rare and nice it is to hear a band doing something angular and different! Lucibel Crater’s, The Family Album is just that - angular and clearly unique.
Ross Christopher, awaken music, April 1, 2009, five stars of five
What was written about it
Buzzbin Magazine reviewed it in July 2008: this is totally music to get high to.
Simone Tempia wrote it up twice in Italy, in Urban in February 2009, where the Björk and White Stripes comparison comes from (Ci si può sentire qualcosa di Björk e magari dei White Stripes. Ma la verità è che il loro sound è unico e difficilmente incasellabile.
), and in Vogue Italia that January. Lost in Sound interviewed the band in February 2010. The rest is on Rumors.
Conspiracies
Made by Lucibel Crater, with Leah Coloff, Paul Chuffo and Lou Reed. The band’s earlier EP is Miracles, 2007. My tools on it are on Devices.
Track list and dates from Apple Music. The Vogue Italia and Urban quotes are from the band’s own reprints, archived.