Invisible Lantern

Invisible Lantern
Studio album by
Screaming Trees
ReleasedMay 12, 1988
RecordedWinter 1988
StudioVelvetone, Ellensburg, Washington
Genre
Length40:43
LabelSST (188)[2]
ProducerSteve Fisk, Screaming Trees[3]
Screaming Trees chronology
Beat Happening/
Screaming Trees
(1988) 		Invisible Lantern
(1988) 		Buzz Factory
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[3]
Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10[5]

Invisible Lantern is the third studio album by alternative rock band Screaming Trees, released in 1988 on SST Records.[6][7]

Critical reception

Trouser Press wrote that "the Trees’ pop streak matures with 'Smokerings' and especially the marvelous 'Night Comes Creeping'."[8] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called the album the band's SST peak.[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Screaming Trees

Invisible Lantern track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Ivy"3:16
2."Walk Through to This Side"2:32
3."Lines & Circles"3:45
4."She Knows"2:15
5."Shadow Song"4:15
6."Grey Diamond Desert"4:22
7."Smokerings"3:43
8."The Second I Awake"2:59
9."Invisible Lantern"3:02
10."Even If"3:48
11."Direction of the Sun"2:53
12."Night Comes Creeping"3:53
Total length:40:43

Personnel

Screaming Trees
Additional personnel
  • Steve Fisk – producer, piano on "Grey Diamond Desert"
  • Rod Doak – engineering
  • Daniel Herron – front cover artwork
  • Jenna Scott – photographs and lettering

In other media

While recording Invisible Lantern, Mark Lanegan, Mark Pickerel, and Van Conner appeared in the independent film 'Fertilichrone Cheerleader Massacre' along with producer Steve Fisk, which was shot in Ellensburg by Shawn O'Neill.[9][10] The film was most recently released in 2012.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Invisible Lantern - Screaming Trees". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Screaming Trees - Invisible Lantern - CD". SST Superstore.
  3. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 989.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 7. MUZE. p. 317.
  5. ^ a b Azzerad, Michael (1995). "Screaming Trees". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 343–344. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  6. ^ "Screaming Trees | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ^ The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. December 31, 2003. ISBN 9781858284576 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "Screaming Trees". Trouser Press. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  9. ^ Yarm, Mark (March 2012). Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. ISBN 9780307464446.
  10. ^ "Fertilichrome 76-6-6". IMDb.
  11. ^ "The Fertilichrome Cheerleader Massacre (1989)".



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