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- Artist: The High Llamas
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- Release Date: 1994
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
Despite what Don Was, Van Dyke Parks, and others might claim, Brian Wilson is not going to return to the peak of his powers. In his absence, Sean O'Hagan might be the best available substitute. He's obviously done his homework, listening not only to all the albums between Pet Sounds and Surf's Up, but the widely circulated SMiLE bootlegs as well. Cheeky references to cuts like "Let's Get Away for a While" and "Surf's Up" pop up from time to time on this lush set, which takes its cues from both Wilson's most melodic and most eccentric qualities (though the ten-minute flute solo on "Track Goes By" does this to excess). It's an impressive outing that sounds like little else in the alternative rock world of the mid-'90s. But it only establishes O'Hagan and his various pals as charming emulators, rather than true innovators. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Giddy Strings | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (:27) |
| The Dutchman | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:41) |
| Giddy and Gay | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:55) |
| Easy Rod | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (2:04) |
| Checking In, Checking Out (Lyrics) | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (5:45) |
| The Goat Strings | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (2:06) |
| Up in the Hills | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (4:57) |
| The Goat Looks On | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (6:13) |
| Taog Skool No | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (1:36) |
| Little Collie | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (:44) |
| Track Goes By | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (14:13) |
| Let's Have Another Look | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (:50) |
| The Goat [Instrumental] | Sean O'Hagan | The High Llamas | (6:17) |
