Aurora Gory Alice by Letters To Cleo

Aurora Gory Alice was Letters to Cleo's first album, a Boston alternative rock record that came out on the CherryDisc label in 1993 and got a second life when Giant Records reissued it in 1994. The opening single, "I See", barely made a ripple (it resurfaced years later over the closing credits of an episode of Daria). It took "Here & Now" to crack things open, once the song landed on the Melrose Place soundtrack; it climbed to 56 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The two editions aren't quite the same record. On the original, Brian Karp played bass and helped write the music; for the reissue, "Here & Now" and "Rim Shak" were redone with Scott Riebling on bass and Stacy Jones on drums. Kay Hanley, Michael Eisenstein and Greg McKenna were there from the start, and the whole thing goes down like sugar-rush guitar pop with a fuzzy undertow.

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