Illumination

by The Pastels

Illumination cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 October 1997
  • Label: Domino
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 42:50
  • Community rating: 3.33/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Bill Wells, Katrina Mitchell, Gerard Love, Isobel Campbell, Jonathan Kilgour, Ian Carmichael, Dawn Kelly, Stephen Pastel, Norman Blake, Sarah Ward, Gregor Reid

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Pastels deliver a highly melodic and bittersweet indie pop record steeped in the tradition of C86 and twee pop. Incorporating lush ambient pop and slowcore elements, the album drifts through a calm, melancholic, and introspectively lonely atmosphere.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. The Hits Hurt (3:48)
  2. Cycle (4:33)
  3. Thomson Colour (1:43)
  4. Unfair Kind Of Fame (4:21)
  5. Fragile Gang (2:39)
  6. The Viaduct (5:08)
  7. ReMOTE Climbs (2:46)
  8. Rough Riders (4:31)
  9. On The Way (3:38)
  10. Leaving This Island (2:31)
  11. G12 Nights (1:12)
  12. Attic Plan (4:22)
  13. Mechanised (1:31)

Credits

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