You Guys Kill Me is a studio album by Matt Elliott, released under the moniker The Third Eye Foundation. It was originally released on Domino Recording Company on 20 October 1998.[1]

You Guys Kill Me
Studio album by
Released20 October 1998 (1998-10-20)
GenreElectronic
Length45:16
LabelDomino Recording Company
ProducerMatt Elliott
The Third Eye Foundation chronology
Ghost
(1997)
You Guys Kill Me
(1998)
Little Lost Soul
(2000)
Singles from You Guys Kill Me
  1. "In Bristol with a Pistol"
    Released: 1999

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[2]
NME8/10[3]
Pitchfork6.5/10[4]

Will Hermes of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a grade of "A−," calling it "a dense weave of scissored rhythms and slithering tape loops that reads like a soundtrack to some great lost surrealist film."[2] John Bush of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, saying, "The beats and effects Matt Elliott concocted aren't incredibly original (there's the sewing-machine Brazilian bossa shuffle and the downbeat from Boogie Down Productions' "Bridge Is Over," along with various effects including howling dogs, dark crackly strings and metallic), but the slice-and-dice production, along with creative processing, transforms them into revelatory darkside symphonies."[1]

NME named it the 36th best album of 1998.[5]

Track listing edit

No.TitleLength
1."A Galaxy of Scars"6:55
2."For All the Brothers and Sisters"4:14
3."There's a Fight at the End of the Tunnel"4:39
4."An Even Harder Shade of Dark"8:35
5."Lions Writing the Bible"1:59
6."No Dove No Covenant"4:55
7."I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired"4:39
8."That Would Be Exhibiting the Same Weak Traits"6:07
9."In Bristol with a Pistol"3:03
Total length:45:16

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Bush, John. "You Guys Kill Me – The Third Eye Foundation". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b Hermes, Will (22 January 1999). "You Guys Kill Me". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ^ Empire, Kitty (30 October 1998). "Third Eye Foundation – You Guys Kill Me". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  4. ^ Schreiber, Ryan. "Third Eye Foundation: You Guys Kill Me". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 29 January 2001. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Albums And Tracks Of The Year: 1998". NME. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

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