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Title: Out Of Our Mouths
Release date: 21 August, 2007
Record label: High Two Records
Single: Homewrecker
Official website: Illuminea
Wikipedia: Illuminea

Tracklisting

1. In Retrospect
2. Living in Sin
3. Homewrecker
4. Build Your Own
5. Sugaring
6. To Lose You as a Friend
7. Sleep It Off
8. New Walk
9. Done by Hand
10. I Waited Too Long to Tell You How I Feel
11. Out of Our Mouths
12. I Can't Wait

Illuminea - Out Of Our Mouths

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On August 21, High Two will release illuminea's Out of Our Mouths. Formerly known as illumina, the Philadelphia chamber pop band's second album features 12 new songs, including "Build Your Own" and "Homewrecker." With three distinct singers/songwriters in the band, Out of Our Mouths plays like a mix CD, albeit one that was created by a close group of friends intent on sharing their individual experiences with love and loss as a collective.

Though there are frequent sonic and tonal shifts throughout Out of Our Mouths - it is at turns epic, intimate, stormy, playful, pensive, and jubilant - each song remains inherently illuminea.

"In Retrospect" introduces itself sweetly with pizzicato strings and woodwinds before revealing a caustic heart; "Build Your Own" wobbles along with drunken tuba, guitar, and percussion until it bursts into a choir of la-la-las; turbulent rocker "Sleep It Off" evokes both Fiddler on the Roof and Ennio Morricone; "Out of Our Mouths" floats on twinkling harp, swelling gradually as gorgeous orchestration tumbles in; and "I Can't Wait" closes the album with spiky piano, round-robin vocals, and a lurching brass ensemble.

Produced by Joel Hamilton (Tom Waits, Sparklehorse) and illuminea, Out of Our Mouths was recorded in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Harpist Zeena Parkins (Bjork), singer Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu), and saxophonist/clarinetist Colin Stetson (Tom Waits) contribute musical gifts.

With its origin as a home recording project between college classmates Jen Appel and Marc Goodman in 2002, illuminea grew to become a seven-person band as friends and lovers joined them. illuminea's debut album Nightlight was self-released in 2004. Having focused on playing shows in the northeast, the band has opened for Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Sam Prekop, The Like, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, The Radar Brothers, and The Spinto Band.

press quotes
"They're raucously reckless enough to make even poppy love songs seem badass." -- Philadelphia Weekly

"Illuminea is a force to be reckoned with." -- AM New York

"Don't miss opener Illuminea, the brainchild of East Village roommates Marc Goodman and Jen Appel, who've morphed from a promising two piece with a penchant for beautiful aching melodies and gentle strumming into a full-fucking-fledged seven piece featuring cello, keys, and more." -- The Village Voice

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