This new CDEP from the reborn Green Pajamas, co-released with the band's own Endgame label, comprises previously unreleased material from the sessions for the 1997 Camera Obscura release "Strung Behind the Sun". We hesitate to use the word "out-takes" because of the way that that phrase tends to connote the idea of a quick cash-in on second rate material, and there is certainly not a novelty track, cover version, or failed experiment in earshot of "Strung Out". Things kick-off with a quick and head clearing instrumental which leads into a new Eric Lichter tune "Lavender Tin Voices" (place it on the mantelpiece next to his masterful "Glass Tambourine" and "Scarlet Song"). Elsewhere you'll find remarkable ultra-blissed reworkings of the album tracks "Scarlet Song" (string-driven Wilson-esque lushness) and "We're Flying" (even more lysergically soaring than the original), and two new Jeff Kelly songs ("Song for Tess" and "My Dark Hour") so memorable that it is possible to imagine entire albums being constructed around them.

"Strung Behind the Sun" reintroduced The Green Pajamas into a musical landscape crying out for the cool rain of classic 60s-inspired pop-psych song craft, and the contemporaneous release of the "Indian Winter" singles compilation on Get Hip Records seems to reinforce the notion that the band has entered a new cycle in its lengthy existence, and many bright things lay before it.

Praise for the Green Pajamas "Strung Behind the Sun":

"After the Wellwater Conspiracy album, this is 1997's best example of 60s pop-psych worship. Lushly produced ans well-crafted, "Strung Behind the Sun" should hook fans of The Beatles ca. 1967 and The Left Banke". -from the "AP Recommends" section of Alternative Press 113

"'Strung Behind the Sun' is a perfect amalgam of all the best elements of Green Pajamas' music, and to a few of us at least the band have no parallel." - Phil McMullen reviewing their 1997 Camera Obscura album in Ptolemaic Terrascope PT24 (due Feb 98)

"Seattle quartet last seen on the Ptolemaic Terrascope's "Succour" compilation, who play breathtakingly-lovely, Beatles-inspired crystal clear tunes, with the occasional bonus of refreshing sitar."- Aquarius Records New Arrivals Catalog No 57 on "Strung Behind the Sun"

Other resources

CAM014CD - Green Pajamas - Strung Behind the Sun

CAM020CD - Green Pajamas - All Clues Lead To Meagan's Bed

CAM036LP - Green Pajamas - Narcotic Kisses

CAM045CD - Green Pajamas - Northern Gothic