Excerpts from a Love Circus

Excerpts from a Love Circus is an album by the American musician Lisa Germano.[4][5] It was released in 1996 by 4AD.[6]

Excerpts from a Love Circus
Studio album by
Lisa Germano
ReleasedSeptember 9, 1996
GenreAlternative rock, dream pop, folk rock
Length51:52
Label4AD
ProducerPaul Mahern, Lisa Germano, Bill Bottrell
Lisa Germano chronology
Geek the Girl
(1994)		 Excerpts from a Love Circus
(1996)		 Slide
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[2]
Los Angeles Times[3]

In the United Kingdom, "Small Heads" was released as a single in August 1996, just prior to the album. Around this same time, Germano recorded an album with the members of Giant Sand under the name OP8; although originally commissioned by 4AD, the label passed on the album (Slush), which led to its release on Thirsty Ear Recordings in February 1997. In North America, a remix of "I Love a Snot" by Tchad Blake was serviced to radio and retail in April 1997. Another Germano collaboration of sorts was released later that year, when another Excerpts track, "Lovesick", was remixed by drum & bass producer The Underdog (aka Trevor Jackson, later of Playgroup), and released as a single on his Output Recordings label.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Germano adds trembling violins to other aural oddities, like the plinking of a toy piano and the purring of her cat ... Those quirky elements help lighten the troubled lullabies."[2] The Tucson Weekly thought that "Germano's music is dreamy, with her haunting violin and keyboards coloring the drifty, mercurial arrangements."[7]

Track listing
  1. "Baby on the Plane"
  2. "A Beautiful Schizophrenic/"Where's Miamo-Tutti?" by Dorothy"
  3. "Bruises"
  4. "I Love a Snot"
  5. "Forget It, It's a Mystery"
  6. "Victoria's Secret/"Just a Bad Dream" by Miamo-Tutti"
  7. "Small Heads"
  8. "We Suck"
  9. "Lovesick"
  10. "Singing to the Birds"
  11. "Messages from Sophia/"There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" by Lisa and Dorothy"
  12. "Big, Big World"
  13. "Fun Fun Fun for Everyone (Acoustic)" *
  14. "Tom, Dick and Harry" *
  15. "Messages from Sophia (Instrumental)" *

All songs were written by Lisa Germano.

Three of the album's tracks also contain interludes which feature home recordings of two of Germano's cats, Dorothy and Miamo-Tutti. Contrary to the track listing shown on the album's packaging, "Where's Miamo-Tutti?" actually appears during the first seventeen seconds of track 3. "Just a Bad Dream" begins at the 4:19 mark of track 6, and "There's More Kitties in the World than Just Miamo-Tutti" takes up roughly the last minute of track 11.

A later edition of Excerpts, re-released by 4AD in 1999, contained tracks 2-4 from the "Small Heads" single added to the end as bonus tracks (denoted above with *), but have since been removed for subsequent editions. The song "Tom, Dick and Harry" was also performed by Germano on the OP8 album Slush.

"Small Heads", "I Love A Snot" and "Lovesick" all received considerate airplay on College & Alternative radio in America as well as the UK.

Personnel

Kenny Aronoff, Bill Bottrell, Dane Clark, Dorothy, Emily Goethals, Glenn Hicks, John Hicks, Demian Hostetter, Mark Maher, Paul Mahern, Miamo-Tutti, Allana Redecki, Craig Ross, Josh Silbert, Jake Smith, John Strohm, Thor, Wyndham Wallace. (Individual credits were not listed.)

Credits
  • Produced by Paul Mahern and Lisa Germano, except track 6 produced by Bill Bottrell with assistant engineer Mark Cross.
  • Recorded and mixed at Echo Park Studio in Bloomington, IN, except track 6 recorded at Toad Hall Studio in Pasadena, CA.
  • Mastered by Greg Calbi at Masterdisk.
  • Art direction by Paul McMenamin at v23.
  • Photography by Matthew Welch.
  • Portrait by Michael Wilson.

References
  1. "Excerpts from a Love Circus - Lisa Germano | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
  2. "Excerpts From a Love Circus". EW.com.
  3. Rosenbluth, Jean (22 Sep 1996). "LISA GERMANO 'Excerpts From a Love Circus'". Los Angeles Times. Calendar. p. 65.
  4. "Lisa Germano Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  5. Margasak, Peter (March 27, 1997). "Lisa Germano". Chicago Reader.
  6. "Lisa Germano". Trouser Press. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  7. "Quick Scans (November 28 - December 4, 1996)". www.tucsonweekly.com.
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