Invisible Lantern

Invisible Lantern is the third studio album by alternative rock band Screaming Trees, released in 1988 on SST Records.[6][7]

Invisible Lantern
Studio album by
Screaming Trees
ReleasedMay 12, 1988
RecordedVelvetone, Ellensburg, WA, Winter, 1988
GenreAlternative rock, psychedelic rock, grunge
Length40:43
LabelSST (188)[1]
ProducerSteve Fisk, Screaming Trees[2]
Screaming Trees chronology
Beat Happening/
Screaming Trees
(1988)		 Invisible Lantern
(1988)		 Buzz Factory
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[2]
Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10[5]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the Trees’ pop streak matures with 'Smokerings' and especially the marvelous 'Night Comes Creeping'."[8] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called the album the band's SST peak.[5]

Track listing
  1. "Ivy" – 3:16
  2. "Walk Through to This Side" – 2:32
  3. "Lines & Circles" – 3:45
  4. "She Knows" – 2:15
  5. "Shadow Song" – 4:15
  6. "Grey Diamond Desert" – 4:22
  7. "Smokerings" – 3:43
  8. "The Second I Awake" – 2:59
  9. "Invisible Lantern" – 3:02
  10. "Even If" – 3:48
  11. "Direction of the Sun" – 2:53
  12. "Night Comes Creeping" – 3:53

Additional personnel
  • Steve Fisk - piano on "Grey Diamond Desert"
  • Rod Doak - engineering
  • Daniel Herron - front cover artwork
  • Jenna Scott - photographs and lettering

References
  1. "Screaming Trees - Invisible Lantern - CD". SST Superstore.
  2. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 989.
  3. "Invisible Lantern - Screaming Trees". AllMusic.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Volume 7: MUZE. p. 317.CS1 maint: location (link)
  5. Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 343.
  6. "Screaming Trees | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides. December 31, 2003 – via Google Books.
  8. "Screaming Trees". Trouser Press. Retrieved 31 December 2020.



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