Eyelids - Or REM and would become the band's

and would become the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200

album producer Chris Price

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The whimsy and strangely familiar feel of '60s and '70s library music could also be heard in their music from the beginning

and the whole affair bursts with punky energy

Eyelids - Or REM and would become the band'sPortland, Oregons Eyelids existed long before the actual band came to be. Friends for over two decades, principal songwriters John Moen and Chris Slusarenko had long desired to get together to write songs, sweet melodies paired with bummer vibes, which would fuse Big Stars jangle to XTCs melodicism, connecting the dots between the dream pop sounds of the 80s Paisley Underground to the homespun post punk of the legendary Flying Nun label. For years,