title: Elyria (album)
text: # Elyria (album)
  
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  Elyria is the debut studio album by rock band Faith and the Muse.
  
  ## Critical reception
  
  The Washington Post gave the album a mixed review, writing: "A meeting of gothic minds, Faith and The Muse's debut, Elyria, fails to avoid some of the genre's more hackneyed cliches: Gonging church bells and whipping winds conjure a requisitely dank atmosphere, and [Monica] Richards's lyrics reinforce the overwrought ambience." The review ultimately judged the album to be "richly textured" and "an engaging, if melodramatic, effort."
  
  ## Credits
  
  * All instruments and voices performed by William Faith and Monica Richards
  * Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc Systems, Hollywood, California
  * All titles composed by Faith and the Muse c and p Elyrian Music, BMI, 1994, except:
  
      "When to Her Lute Corinna Sings," text by Thomas Campion - Anno Domini 1600
  * Artwork and layout by Monica Richards
  * Photography by Clovis IV (photographer)|Clovis IV of Vertigo Graphic Arts, Santa Barbara, California
  * Original lyrics by Monica Richards, except "The Trauma Coil", written by William Faith.
  
      "The Unquiet Grave", traditional ballad circa 1400
  