Description The first authoritative compilation of American dream pop artist Happy Rhodes, whose singular songwriting and 4-octave vocal range emanated from the pastoral confines of upstate New York in the '80s. Her melding of classical music influences with synthesizer and acoustic guitar, and her enchanting and idiosyncratic singing, are favorably compared to heralded English chanteuse Kate Bush. Fans of such artistic pop music would be remiss to overlook Rhodes's similarly remarkable and otherworldly sonic transmissions, traversing tales of dreamers, outsiders, lovers and other lovely and terrifying creatures born of a wellspring of wild creativity and bold imagination. Affectionately remastered from the original tapes, Ectotrophia gathers essential songs from Rhodes's mid-'80s salad days, many written when she was just a teenager - wildly ahead of her time and unafraid to bare her soul to regional audiences, the ectophiles who'd eventually coin an entire subgenre of pop music in her honor. Dive deep into ecto, with the woman who started it all! 1 Oh The Drears 3:152 I Cannot Go On 4:083 Would That I Could 4:124 Where Do I Go 3:285 For We Believe 2:496 When The Rain Came Down 5:457 If Love Is A Game, I Win 5:348 I'm Not Awake, I'm Not Asleep 3:229 Baby Don't Go 4:1110 Come Here 3:5611 Don't Want To Hear It 4:5512 If So 3:3713 I'll Let You Go 3:5714 Because I Learn 3:4115 I Am A Legend 4:0716 Perfect Irony 4:0117 Many Nights 2:5118 To Be E. Mortal 8:16
