Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
"This is an album for anyone who has ever felt lost; Ill Lit might not help you get
found, but it will give you some beautiful songs to light the way.
R.I.Y.L.: Beth Orton, Will Oldham, Clem Snide"
- CMJ Weekly 2/16/04
- CMJ
"I Need You is one of the few albums in recent memory to have hooked me from the very start and then maintained that pleasurable rush of excitement throughout."
- Ink 19 5/6/04
- Ink 19
"Cosmic in Gram Parsons' sense of the word, and with an understated Lou Reed-like intensity, ill lit's music moves the mind and mesmerizes the heart."
-- Franz Wright,
author of “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”
- Franz Wright
Discography
i need you., Badman Recording Co, LP
to the others caught between black and white, Insound, EP
WACMusic, Badman Recording Co, LP
streaming at www.illlit.com
Photos
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Bio
Named after a collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Franz Wright, ill lit is a diverse cast of musicians from the LA, San Francisco and Brooklyn music scenes. Ill lit construct harrowing, pop songs with concern for sound rather than style. Full of beauty, obsession and regret, i need you. is - above all - a meditation on Los Angeles
a place of wonder, dread, love, death, and finally hope.
ill lit played Noise Pop 2003, headlined Badman's 2003 CMJ showcase and have shared stages with Josh Rouse, Young People, Clem Snide, and Lou Barlow.
i need you was co-produced by Dylan Magierek (Mark Kozelek, Erlend Oye, Call and Response), Michael Rozon and ill lit in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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