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| Eye | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 12, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989–90 | |||
| Studio | Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 63:57 | |||
| Label | Twin/Tone | |||
| Robyn Hitchcock chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Chicago Sun-Times | [2] |
| Chicago Tribune |  [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| Select | 4/5[6] |
Eye is the eighth studio album and fourth solo album by Robyn Hitchcock. It was released in 1990 on Glass Fish (UK) and Twin/Tone Records (US). This was Hitchcock's only solo album released between 1985 and 1995, a period in which he recorded most of his music with his backing band, the Egyptians.
Eye was recorded acoustically in the style of I Often Dream of Trains (1984) with which it shares a similar green/gold sleeve design, and could therefore be seen as a sequel piece. Eye is entirely self-composed and ran to fourteen songs (vinyl) and eighteen (CD). Hitchcock plays all instruments (mostly guitars), and sings all the vocals.
Eye was reissued in 1995 by Rhino and added the tracks "Raining Twilight Coast (demo)", "Agony of Pleasure (demo)", and "Queen Elvis (demo)". A third CD edition saw the previous demo bonus tracks dropped, along with "College of Ice", while adding yet more.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Eye – Robyn Hitchcock". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
- ^ McLeese, Don (2 April 1990). "Robyn Hitchcock, 'Eye' (Twin/Tone)". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ Kot, Greg (10 May 1990). "Robyn Hitchcock: Eye (Twin/Tone)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ Sandow, Greg (16 March 1990). "Eye". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Robyn Hitchcock". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 378–380. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ Collis, Clark (July 1995). "Robyn Hitchcock: Eye / You & Oblivion / Invisible Hitchcock". Select. No. 61. p. 101.