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''Prayer for the Halcyon Fear'' is the debut album of
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band
Tiny Lights Tiny Lights was a music group formed in Hoboken, New Jersey by John Hamilton (musician, scholar), John Hamilton (guitar/vocals) and Donna Croughn (vocals/electric violin) in 1985. Original members include Dave Dreiwitz (bass/trumpet), Jane Scarp ...
, released in 1985 through Uriel Music.


Release and reception

Nitsuh Abebe of
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said the album has "the continual loose brilliance that's typically only found on debut records." He awarded ''Prayer for the Halcyon Fear'' four out of five stars, calling it the band's best effort to date. Critics of the ''
Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who, Dave Schulps, and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...
'' called it "a delightful debut" that has "a mildly psychedelic sense of play that sets the band apart."Frampton, Scott, Schinder, Scott
"TINY LIGHTS"
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In 1990, the album was re-issued by Absolute A Go Go Records on CD and cassette, containing "Flowers Through the Air" and "Zippity-Do-Dah" as bonus material. Bob Bert provided liner notes which detailed the band's history.


Track listing


Personnel

;Tiny Lights * Donna Croughn – vocals, violin, percussion, production * Andy Demos – drums,
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Dave Dreiwitz Dave Dreiwitz (born January 2, 1966) is an American musician and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the bassist for the bands Ween and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. Biography Dave Dreiwitz was born on January 2, 1966, in New York City, N ...
 – bass guitar, double bass, trumpet * John Hamilton – guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, piano, production *
Jane Scarpantoni Jane Scarpantoni (born 1960) is an American classically trained cello player, who has played on a number of alternative rock albums. She was a member of Hoboken, New Jersey's Tiny Lights in the mid-1980s, then went on to play with other musicians ...
 – cello, vocals ;Additional musicians and production * Henry Hirsch – production, vocals and keyboards on "Song of the Weak" & "G. Does the Limbo"


External links

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References

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