Tremble Under Boom Lights

Tremble Under Boom Lights is an EP by Jonathan Fire*Eater, released in 1996. It was the first release on The Medicine Label after it split from Giant Records the previous fall. The EP was distributed by the Alternative Distribution Alliance.[4] The five songs on the EP were written while the band's members were living in a farmhouse in Ithaca, New York.[5]

Tremble Under Boom Lights
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 23, 1996
GenreRock
Length21:56
LabelMedicine
ProducerJohn Siket
Jonathan Fire*Eater chronology
Jonathan Fire*Eater
(1995)
Tremble Under Boom Lights
(1996)
When the Curtain Calls You
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau[2]
Pitchfork Media8.0/10[3] (reissue)

In 2019, the release was reissued along with bonus tracks from their 1995 single self-titled single (also referred to by its first track, "The Public Hanging of a Movie Star") as well as a cover of "The City Never Sleeps" and the previous unreleased track "In the Head".

Track listing

Original release
No.TitleLength
1."The Search for Cherry Red"4:36
2."Make It Precious"4:43
3."Give Me Daughters"4:10
4."The Beautician"3:46
5."Winston Plum: Undertaker"4:41
2019 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
6."The Public Hanging of a Movie Star"3:36
7."The Cakewalk of Crime"3:37
8."When Prince Was a Kid"3:19
9."The City Never Sleeps"3:37
10."In the Head"3:58

References

  1. Tremble Under Boom Lights at AllMusic
  2. CG: Jonathan Fire*Eater
  3. Thompson, Paul (October 26, 2019). "Jonathan Fire*Eater: Tremble Under Boom Lights Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  4. Newman, Melinda (30 March 1996). "BMG's Vining to Climb Windham Hill". Billboard. p. 18. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  5. Botchick, Cheryl (1996). Jonathan Fire*Eater. CMJ. p. 19.


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