Everything Wrong Is Imaginary | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 2006 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Label | Manifesto | |||
Producer | Michael Musmanno | |||
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Everything Wrong Is Imaginary is a 2006 album by Lilys, released on the Manifesto label.
The album was written during a traumatic period in Lilys frontman Kurt Heasley's life; His partner disappeared after a psychotic episode and returned to her family leaving Heasley to look after his three children. Heasley therefore worked on the album mainly at home in his spare time.[1][2] The recordings were then sent to producer Michael Musmanno, who finished the tracks with session musicians.[1]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100[3] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.4/10)[4] |
PopMatters | [2] |
Sunday Times | [5] |
The Washington Post | (favorable)[6] |
Jason MacNeil of PopMatters described the album as (along with previous album Precollection), "the closest thing to Britrock from a Yankee band I heard in a long time", going on to say "There are too many things right about this album to make you believe it's imaginary".[2] Patrick Rapa of the Philadelphia City Paper described it as "one of Heasley's finest yet—10 occasionally noisy, often catchy rock songs".[7] Marc Hogan of Pitchfork Media opined that "much of the record's beauty lies [in] its dizzying production", but wrote that it "never quite feels like the career-culminating record it should be."[4] Mark Edwards of the Sunday Times identified the album's diversity as one of its strengths.[5] Eugene P. Sorricraft from the Highbold Press declared it, "a wonderful expulsion of everything that is otherwise lacking in this sad world".[8][citation needed]