A B O U T
Neo-psychedelic dream-pop. A project by husband and wife: Eric Krans and Jen O’Connor, named after a room in the 19th century farmhouse where we live, farm, and create. As multi-instrumentalist producer-songwriters we explore sound palettes for our intimate dreamy, dark artful indie anti-pop. Our fourteen-song album Our Day in the Sun was recorded here -in the parlor of The Kirk Estate.

If Belle and Sebastian left If You’re Feeling Sinister to age in a cask full of Animal Collective and Radiohead. With influences from Phil Spector, The Mamas & the Papas, Vashti Bunyan, Nick Drake and Mazzy Star.

The track “The Time of the Dragonflies” is featured in the horror cult classic The Battery and “The Places Where We Bled” was featured in After Midnight.

D E T A I L S
Four color replicated CD inside a six panel eco wallet designed by Phil Pascuzzo. Includes full lyrics, album credits, and track listing -not to mention a full panorama of spectacular waves.

1. You’re in My Eye

2. Tear Down the Coastline

3. Our Day in the Sun

4. We are Free // On a Boat on a Sea

5. Superstitious Witches

6. My Teeth are Falling Out in my Dreams

7. Full of Hope & Heart

8. Mouths Dried Out

9. The Places Where We Bled

10. The Time of the Dragonflies

11. Diamonds in the Seabed of the Sun

12. To the Wind Like a Sail

13. In the Past

14. On the Backside of the End of it

released March 20, 2012

written, arranged + recorded by Jen O'Connor + Eric Krans
mastered by Frank Moscowitz
produced + mixed by Jen O'Connor + Eric Krans
art & design by: Phil Pascuzzo

c 2011 The Parlor

Printed with vegetable-based inks and water-based biodegradable varnishes. Full color CD made on vintage CD replication equipment using audiophile-class TrueSound process, which includes glass mastering and longer injection molding times.

B A C K G R O U N D

Our Day in the Sun chronicles the adventures of the authors through their traumatic trip from land to sea and back; from the obsessive mantras of grabbing for a dream to the restorative mantras of the post-grievous. It is based on a true story of ambition, demise and redemption told in musical vignette. Our Day in the Sun marks the arrival of trance-folk pop, with grooving stand up bass melodies, counterpoint guitars, haunting out-of-tune pianos, and poly-rhythmic percussion smashed against your speakers; Phil Spector’s wall-of-sound adapted and retrofitted from over-the-counter-microphones through state-of-the-art computer programs.

P R E S S

A debut album that splits the difference between the Arcade Fire’s communal chorales and Animal Collective’s clap-happy euphoria.” –Pitchfork

“trance-folk pop.” –Consequence of Sound

S H I P P I N G
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