''Secret Square'' is an album by

Secret Square Secret Square was an early, now-defunct side project of The Apples in Stereo drummer and vocalist Hilarie Sidney and Lisa Janssen, who played bass on the Neutral Milk Hotel album ''On Avery Island''. They had two 1995 releases, both self-titled, ...

. A lo-fi album with songs written by

Hilarie Sidney Hilarie Sidney is an American musician best known as the longtime drummer for The Apples in Stereo. She was previously married to Robert Schneider, the band's frontman and Elephant 6 co-founder. Their divorce was announced in 2004. She was ha ...

and

Lisa Janssen Secret Square was an early, now-defunct side project of The Apples in Stereo drummer and vocalist Hilarie Sidney and Lisa Janssen, who played bass on the Neutral Milk Hotel album ''On Avery Island''. They had two 1995 releases, both self-titled, ...

, it consists of seven original songs and four demos. The release went largely unnoticed. Sidney herself states "not a lot of people have" heard it. The album and the previously released single remain cult collector's items among

Elephant 6 The Elephant 6 Recording Company is a loosely defined musical collective from the United States. Notable bands associated with the collective include the Apples in Stereo, Beulah, Circulatory System, Elf Power, the Minders, Neutral Milk Hotel, ...

fans. Jim McIntyre of

Von Hemmling Von Hemmling is the solo project of Jim McIntyre and one of many experimental music projects associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Though Jim McIntyre is the band's primary performer, Hilarie Sidney and John Hill have both been membe ...

provides bass for "Light of the Sun".

Track listing

# "I Love J.S." (L. Janssen) – 2:13 # "I've Been Watching" (H. Sidney) – 2:57 # "Plunky" (L. Janssen, H. Sidney) – 4:26 # "We Know" (L. Janssen) – 2:33 # "Sparkly Green Couch" (H. Sidney) – 2:31 # "Sad Endings" (L. Janssen) – 2:27 # "Means of Escape" (L. Janssen) – 3:53 # "

Candy Says "Candy Says" is a song written by Lou Reed. The song is the first track on the Velvet Underground's self-titled third album. It is one of four songs Lou Reed explicitly wrote in the voice of a female character, in the case of "Candy Says", a tran ...

" ( L. Reed) – 3:33 # "Relative" (L. Janssen) – 2:57 # "Light of the Sun" (H. Sidney) – 1:34 # "Aerodynamic (glendora mix)" (H. Sidney) – 3:02

References

External links

Secret Square
at Elephant6.com.
Optical Atlas
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