Everything Wrong Is Imaginary

The album was written during a traumatic period in Lilys frontman Kurt Heasley's life; His partner disappeared after a psychotic episode and returned to her family leaving Heasley to look after his three children. Heasley therefore worked on the album mainly at home in his spare time.^[2][1] The recordings were then sent to producer Michael Musmanno, who finished the tracks with session musicians.^[2]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Pitchfork Media	(7.4/10)[4]
PopMatters	[1]
Sunday Times	[5]
The Washington Post	(favorable)[6]

Jason MacNeil of PopMatters described the album as (along with previous album Precollection), "the closest thing to Britrock from a Yankee band I heard in a long time", going on to say "There are too many things right about this album to make you believe it's imaginary".^[1] Patrick Rapa of the Philadelphia City Paper described it as "one of Heasley's finest yet—10 occasionally noisy, often catchy rock songs".^[7] Marc Hogan of Pitchfork Media opined that "much of the record's beauty lies [in] its dizzying production", but wrote that it "never quite feels like the career-culminating record it should be."^[4] Mark Edwards of the Sunday Times identified the album's diversity as one of its strengths.^[5] Eugene P. Sorricraft from the Highbold Press declared it, "a wonderful expulsion of everything that is otherwise lacking in this sad world".^{[8][citation needed]}