The Green Pajamas

The neo-psychedelic group the Green Pajamas formed in Seattle in 1984 when Jeff Kelly and Joe Ross came together to explore a lilting pop/rock style steeped in 1960s British influences. Kelly, a lifelong music enthusiast, had begun writing songs at age eleven and started the Electric Garbage Cans; after his parents gave him a reel-to-reel tape recorder, he filled hundreds of cassettes with original material throughout his teenage years. Following college he spent a brief period in the new wave band the Larch, met Ross at a party, and together they launched the Green Pajamas, guided by their shared passion for the Beatles and the Los Angeles paisley underground scene.

Their first recording, the 1984 cassette Summer of Lust, appeared on the Green Monkey label and was followed by a series of additional tapes before the band completed its first proper album, Book of Hours, in 1987. After Ghosts of Love in 1990 the Green Pajamas entered a hiatus while Kelly released the solo album Coffee in Nepal in 1991; the group resurfaced in 1997 with Doctor Dragonfly and the singles-and-tracks compilation Indian Winter. All Clues Lead to Meagan's Bed arrived in 1999 and Seven Fathoms Down and Falling followed in 2000.

The next year brought the J.S. Le Fanu-inspired EP In a Glass Darkly and the full-length This Is Where We Disappear. In 2002 the band issued both the collection of cast-off singles and outtakes Narcotic Kisses and the album Northern Gothic. Celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2004, the group released the fourteen-track retrospective Through Glass Colored Roses and the live-in-studio set Ten White Stones. The unabashedly psychedelic 21st Century Séance appeared the following year.

Night Races into Anna, another compilation, surfaced in 2006, and 2007 saw the release of its companion Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic Season Two. The all-new conceptual piece Poison in the Russian Room arrived in 2009. For the subsequent project the Green Pajamas wrote a set of songs about drinking and heartache that carried a slight rootsy feel, issuing the results in 2011 as Green Pajamas Country!. They returned to darker yet more familiar musical ground with 2012's Death by Misadventure. Nautical themes shaped that year's To the End of the Sea, while the 2017 anthology Supernatural Afternoon gathered rare single sides and unreleased material. The prolific band continued the Northern Gothic series with Phantom Lake: Northern Gothic 3 in 2018.