Tremble Under Boom Lights

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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(neither)[2]
Pitchfork Media8.0/10[3] (reissue)

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]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  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.