With the album “Works for Tomorrow” (2015), the band returned to a dual guitar lineup with the addition of Jim Elkington. The now five piece (including Mark Greenberg) band played several shows in 2015 celebrating the record which was well received by critics and fans. A surprise double album, Since…
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New Moodio , a forgotten alternate version of El Moodio recorded in 1991 with Brad Wood at Idful Music Corporation in Chicago, was released for the first time two decades after the fact by Comedy Minus One in May 2013.
Eleventh Dream Day has since recorded new albums every few years, starting with 1997’s Eighth . Recent albums have balanced the band’s Young-influenced approach with an interest in ambient sound, likely influenced by McCombs’s work with Tortoise . EDD released Stalled Parade in 2000, playing a handful of shows after…
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The band made a stab for commercial success with 1993’s El Moodio , but the effort was unsuccessful and EDD was dropped from Atlantic’s roster. O’Bannon left after recording 1994’s Ursa Major (supposedly EDD’s collective personal favorite, on Atavistic Records ) and the band ceased to be a full-time entity;…
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The band’s full-length follow-up, Prairie School Freakout (1988), won critical praise and the attention of major labels. The band then signed with Atlantic Records . Follow-ups Beet (1989) and Lived to Tell (1991) won more strong reviews but did not sell many copies; Figi left during the Lived to Tell…
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The band was founded by guitarists Rick Rizzo and Janet Beveridge Bean, who met at a place fondly known as 1069. This was a house/practice space/hang out in Louisville where at the time, Beveridge Bean was practicing with the band she was in with Tara Key and Tim Harris: the…
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