''Left Here Alone; Smiling'' is the fourth studio album by

Echo Orbiter Echo Orbiter is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, based indie rock band founded by brothers Justin Emerle and Colin Emerle, described by ''Philadelphia Weekly'' as being "Widely considered two of the most inventive songwriters on the Philadelphia ...

. It was released on Looking Glass Workshop in 2002. The album was produced using a unique writing and recording style the band called "Audio Impressionism," where individual notes in a progression or arpeggiated notes were individually recorded one by one on different tracks with different sounds and instruments and then meticulously pieced together to form the progression or arpeggiated line. Each sound is sustained, with a long reverb, overlapping one another in the same manner that

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passag ...

painters like

Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, , ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During ...

would blur multiple individual strokes of paint together to form a recognizable object or image.

Track listing

Credits

*Justin Emerle - guitar, vocals, drums, percussion, keyboards *Colin Emerle - bass guitar

References

External links

Left Here Alone; Smiling
2002 albums Echo Orbiter albums {{2002-rock-album-stub