 The group went into Idful Music to record their first full-length CD, "The Lilacs Rise Above the Filth".Produced by Brad Wood, who would soon become well known for recording fellow Chicagoan Liz Phair, the CD was met with wide praise and much college radio play.Ira Robbins describe its "witty, post-adolescent, rock and pop originals" in "Trouser Press", noting that "the band suffers from a puppy-like incapability to keep its enthusiasm in check, which occasionally leads things astray on the album," but concluding that "the spunky and unpretentious "Rise Above the Filth" contains attractive examples of Kurson's sprightly '70s-styled youth-pop."