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To promote the release of full Isaac, Lotion toured America and Europe with Pavement, Throwing Muses, and Mercury Rev. In 1995, the band released a self-titled EP on Big Cat Records, with a second EP, The Agnew Funeral E.P., recorded the next year. In 1996, Lotion released their second album, Nobody's Cool, [1] with liner notes by Thomas Pynchon.
And if you like Nobody's Cool or Lotion's third full-length, The Telephone Album (1998), or both, that's great. They're fine and fun. But they bring what can comfortably be called the rock, even the pop-rock, whereas the band's debut, full Isaac (1994), delivers stranger, less easily identified, and longer-lasting goods.
The band next performed in 2011 at Royal Flush Festival, [7] and 2012 at Mercury Lounge. [8] In 2023, the band reunited to play DROM 30, the 30th anniversary of Dromedary Records, [9] with additional shows at Mercury Lounge [10] and Drag Music. [11] Albums. 1994 full Isaac; 1996 Nobody's Cool; 1998 The Telephone Album; EPs. 1994 The Around E.P.
Lunch with Lotion Thomas Pynchon sits down with the boys in the band June 1 1996 THOMAS PYNCHON Although I’ve gone to hear Lotion live and listened to them at length on CD, I’ll refrain from any musical remarks, which would mean bringing up artists far earlier than even R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü—the bands that Lotion gets compared to in print a lot, though the music has also been termed ...
While the Lotion EP, produced and released by Kramer, gladly lays bare the band’s stylistic sources (and becomes trivial as a result), the Putney Swope-quoting Full Isaac, produced by Kurt Ralske (“a prince”), garbs them in surprisingly diverse and pretty arrangements. The brisk and tuneful “She Is Weird City” (a song recycled from the three-song ’92 EP, also untitled) could be a ...
To promote the release of full Isaac, Lotion toured America and Europe with Pavement, Throwing Muses, and Mercury Rev. In 1995, the band released a self-titled EP on Big Cat Records, with a second EP, The Agnew Funeral E.P., recorded the next year. In 1996, Lotion released their second album, Nobody's Cool, with liner notes by
Nobody's Cool is the second studio album by Lotion, released in March 1996. [2]Thomas Pynchon writing the album's liner notes drew attention; at the time, after "the press registered a fair amount of amazement" at this development, the New York magazine quoted Rob Youngberg as having said "We wanted him to do [the liner notes], so we kept hinting...
