{{Infobox album | name = Vague Premonition | type = Album | artist = Elevator Through | cover =Vague Premonition.jpg | alt = | released = April 20, 1999<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H8S0WdfdaJQC&q=Vague+Premonition+elevator+through+1999&pg=PA37|title=Upcoming Releases|magazine=CMJ New Music Report|date=April 5, 1999|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.}}</ref> | recorded = October 1998 | venue = | studio = Chemical Sound, Toronto, ON | genre = Rock, indie | length = 44:59 | label = Sonic Unyon, Sub Pop<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.subpop.com/releases/elevator_through/vague_premonition|title=Vague Premonition|website=Sub Pop Records}}</ref> | producer = Rick White | prev_title = Eerieconsiliation | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = A Taste of Complete Perspective | next_year = 2000 }} '''''Vague Premonition''''' is an album by the Canadian band Elevator Through.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.metrotimes.com/city-slang/archives/1999/05/12/one-floor-below-the-basement|title=One Floor Below the Basement|first=Norene|last=Cashen|newspaper=Detroit Metro Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://exclaim.ca/music/article/erics_trip-_love_supreme|title=Eric's Trip A Love Supreme|website=Exclaim!}}</ref> The album was released on April 20, 1999, by Sub Pop on CD; it was released in June 1999 by Sonic Unyon on vinyl. Most of the album's songs were recorded in one take.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Devlin |first1=Mike |title=Band stays faithful to music despite name changes |work=Times Colonist |date=14 June 1999 |page=D6}}</ref> Jack Endino mixed the record at CMS Studios, in Moncton, in November, 1998. <ref>https://endino.com/archive/old98-99.html</ref> An expanded reissue of the album was released through Blue Fog Recordings in July 2022, which included the original LP remastered from the original tapes by Rick White, ''The Such'' soundtrack extended play, March 1998 Home demos of outtakes of songs originally recorded for the album or The Such soundtrack, which weren't used, as well as included a digital download code for a sequenced home demo version of ''Vague Premonition'', recorded in Spring and Summer, of 1998, which were originally released separately on their own, in 2018.
==Critical reception== {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=AM/> |rev2 = ''The Province'' |rev2score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Quick Spins |journal=The Province |date=29 June 1999 |page=B5}}</ref> }} In its 4-star review, ''The Stranger'' called the album "four a.m. bedspin guitar music at its glorious best."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/cd-review-revue/Content?oid=1177|title=CD Review Revue|newspaper=The Stranger}}</ref> Tom Schulte, in AllMusic, wrote: "From the remote stretches of Canada's New Brunswick, Elevator vaults off on a tube-driven journey into inner space—leave your inhibitions behind and get to know yourself."<ref name=AM>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/vague-premonition-mw0000666158|title=Vague Premonition Elevator Through|website=AllMusic}}</ref>
Ben Rayner, in the ''Toronto Star'', thought that "''Vague Premonition'' is heavier and more thought-out than the off-the-cuff EPs White originally turned out alone as Elevator to Hell and, while as quiet/loud schizoid as the rest of his output, less prone to loose-limbed, jammy distractions than most of the Elevator recordings that followed, making it the most enjoyable in terms of short-burst journeys to the centre of one's mind."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2010/02/21/ben_rayners_reasons_to_live.html|title=Ben Rayner's reasons to live|date=February 21, 2010|newspaper=The Star}}</ref> The ''Telegraph-Journal'' concluded: "Good, old-fashioned late sixties, journey to the centre of your mind stuff. It's an aural trip with a surprisingly full sound for such a small combo, heavy on the acoustic guitar and organ."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mersereau |first1=Bob |title=Canadian, eh? |work=Telegraph-Journal |date=15 May 1999 |department=Opinion}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Energy" # "Rain" # "The Maze" # "No Good Trying" # "Foggy Sea" # "Early Raining April Moon" # "The Only See to Thought # "Comfortable, but Almost" # "Cut Out the Wick" # "The Grip on Me" # "Deep Underground" # "Fluidmonogleestran" # "Vague Premonition"
==Personnel== *Rick White - vocals, guitar, organ, synth, visuals * Tara Landry - vocals, bass * Mark Gaudet - vocals, drums, percussion * Daryl Smith - Engineer *Jack Endino - Mixing <ref>https://endino.com/archive/old98-99.html</ref>
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