I Hope It Lands is an album by the American band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.[3][4] It was released in 1996 through Communion Records.[5][6]

I Hope It Lands
Studio album by
Released1996
RecordedCoast Recorders, San Francisco, California
GenreIndie rock
Length40:10
LabelCommunion
ProducerGibbs Chapman, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 chronology
Strangers from the Universe
(1994)
I Hope It Lands
(1996)
Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Orlando Sentinel[2]

Critical reception

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The Orlando Sentinel called the album "another mad collection of brief sound collages, twisted pop tunes and fractured chunks of art-rock."[2] The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded that "their songs are like singing telegrams from the distant cosmic spring that flows down to both Sonic Youth and Captain Beefheart."[7] Trouser Press declared that "the band has the miraculous group-mind of a flock of birds, and the record flows like nothing they’ve ever done before—even the little noise-twiddles are part of the record’s grand mid-air arc."[8]

Track listing

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All tracks are written by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

No.TitleLength
1."The Poem"1:04
2."A Lamb's Lullaby"3:17
3."Empty Cup"2:59
4."I Hope It Lands"1:19
5."Lizard's Dream"3:58
6."Cornad Adrift Toward Mars"1:15
7."Elgin Miller"4:27
8."Hudson Bottom Dance"1:42
9."Jagged Ambush Bug"0:17
10."Brains"3:16
11."Rampaging Fuckers of Anything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere"1:16
12."Cuckoo at the World"1:35
13."Inspector Fat Ass"0:53
14."The Arbeiter"3:04
15."Triple X"5:48
16."Booth Delirium"1:47
17."Hills"2:13

Personnel

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Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Production and additional personnel

References

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  1. ^ Way, Brian. "I Hope It Lands". AllMusic. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  2. ^ a b Gettelman, Parry (17 May 1996). "THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282". Orlando Sentinel. Calendar. p. 6.
  3. ^ Stubbs, David (Apr 20, 1996). "Albums — I Hope It Lands by Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Melody Maker. 73 (16): 36.
  4. ^ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Perfect Sound Forever.
  5. ^ "Thinking Fellers Union Local #282 Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  6. ^ Earles, Andrew (September 15, 2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. ISBN 9781627883795 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Terrell, Steve (6 Sep 1996). "TERRELL'S TUNE-UP". The Santa Fe New Mexican. PASATIEMPO. p. 18.
  8. ^ "Thinking Fellers Union Local 282". Trouser Press. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
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