Eyeland

The album was recorded in Providence, Rhode Island's Columbus Theatre, over a four-year time span, in the band's own recording studio which they built during the recording and eventually named after the album, Eyeland Recording Studio.^[1] eyeland is a cerebral psych-kidnapping noir for Jorge Luis Borges, and features dense sound collage elements in the arrangements. Mastering engineer Bob Ludwig worked on the album.^[2] During the recording of Eyeland, the Low Anthem became involved with the plans to re-open the theater in 2012. The band were founding members of the Columbus Cooperative, which runs the theater's programming, such as concerts and film screenings.^[3]

In July 2016, the Low Anthem were involved in a traffic accident after their tour van was run off the road outside of Washington D.C.^[4] Band members Ben Knox Miller, Florence Wallis, and Bryan Minto and the band's sound engineer and tour documentarian received minor injuries from the accident, while Jeff Prystowsky had a severe concussion and was hospitalized.^[4][5] The van and most of the band's instruments and gear were destroyed in the accident.^[4] The remainder of the tour was canceled following the accident.^[6]

The album was commissioned into a script for a play by Trinity Repertory Company that is currently in workshop for full-production in 2018.^{[7][needs update]}

The review aggregator website Metacritic gave eyeland a generally favorable rating of 67 out of 100 based on 11 independent music critic reviews.^[8]

The Line of Best Fit, a prominent UK blogger, rated it 8.5 and said, "The Low Anthem's eyeland is a triumph of forward thinking."^[9]

1. "in eyeland" : 4:42
2. "her little cosmos" : 3:21
3. "the pepsi moon" : 3:41
4. "ozzie": 3:27
5. "waved the neon seaweed" : 4:35
6. "behind the airport mirror": 2:52
7. in the air hockey fire" : 4:54
8. "wzgddrmtnwrdz" : 4:10
9. "am i the dream or am i the dreamer" : 5:59
10. "dream killer": 2:57
11. "the circular ruins in euphio" : 2:14

The Low Anthem

• Ben Knox Miller
• Jeff Prystowsky
• Florence Grace Wallis
• Bryan Minto

Guest artists

• Tyler Osborne
• Jocie Adams
• Mike Irwin
• Andy Davis
• Chris Erway