Spirit Phone

Spirit Phone
Album
Artist:	Lemon Demon
Released	February 29, 2016
Recorded	2009–2016
Length	59:17, 1:43:15 (with bonus tracks)
Label	Self-released (2016), Needlejuice Records (2018)
Producer	Neil Cicierega
Links:	Purchase original version digitally Purchase remastered version digitally and physically (Needlejuice Records Bandcamp) Purchase remastered version physically (Needlejuice Records website) Miscellaneous audio files
Lemon Demon chronology
Nature Tapes (2014) Spirit Phone (2016)

Spirit Phone is Lemon Demon’s seventh album, first released in digital format on February 29th, 2016. It was the first full-length Lemon Demon LP to be released in nearly eight years. The artwork was created by Ming Doyle.

Track listing

Side A

1. Lifetime Achievement Award
2. Touch-Tone Telephone
3. Cabinet Man
4. No Eyed Girl

Side B

5. When He Died
6. Sweet Bod
7. Eighth Wonder
8. Ancient Aliens
9. Soft Fuzzy Man

Side C

10. As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It
11. I Earn My Life
12. Reaganomics
13. Man-Made Object
14. Spiral of Ants

Bonus tracks

1. Crisis Actors
2. Redesign Your Logo
3. Pizza Heroes
4. You're at the Party
5. Angry People
6. Geocities
7. Angelfire
8. Gravitron
9. Moon's Request
10. Sweet Bod (Demo)
11. Cat Hacks
12. Cabinet Man (Demo)
13. Kubrick and the Beast

Cover Art Variations

During the production of Spirit Phone, the cover art went through many renditions until Neil and Ming finally settled on the final version. Seen below are 5 of the different iterations it went through.

The first iteration of the cover

The second iteration of the cover, much closer to the layout of the final version

The third iteration of the cover, a redrawn version of the previous iteration

The fourth iteration of the cover, much closer to the final version with a different coloring

The reference photo for the later iterations of the Spirit Phone cover

Physical Releases

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  The "Walls Of Art" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone

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  The "Skull Mansion" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.

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  The "Fuzzy Spots" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.

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  The "Whisper Smoke" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.

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  The "Cadaver Candy" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.

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  The all black "No Moon No Stars" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.

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  The Needlejuice double CD mockup of Spirit Phone.

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  The red backs of the Spirit Phone CD.

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  The Needlejuice cassette tape mockup of Spirit Phone.

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  The Needlejuice Minidisc mockup of Spirit Phone.

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  The Needlejuice "Touch Tone Telephone" wax cylinder mockup.

Trivia

• As part of an April Fools joke, a limited edition 8-track tape was made available during the first week of April in 2019. Continuing the tradition, a limited edition "No Moon No Stars LP" was also released on April 1, 2021. It was all black, unlike Needlejuice's typical colored vinyl, released in a limited run of 100.
• The tracklist went though many iterations during development. Some tracks considered for Spirit Phone were later released as singles and eventually compiled into the Nature Tapes EP in 2014 (namely Everybody Loves Raymond).