Popular in Austin, and on the college radio and tour circuit, the band's unusual and unique musical style, blending melodic hooks with dissonance and occasional tendencies for the avant-garde,[2] delighted critics.
An episode of the MTV show Cutting Edge from 1985 featured Glass Eye[5][6] (and other bands like The Reivers, Timbuk 3, and the seminal singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston) as examples of the New Sincerity musical movement.
Glass Eye's albums were produced primarily by Beattie and engineered by various contributors, including Mike Stewart, Stuart Sullivan, and Roy Taylor.
Kathy McCarty went on to make several solo records, including the acclaimed[13] Dead Dog's Eyeball, a cover album of Daniel Johnston songs[14] that was re-released in 2005,[15] and its subsequent EP, Sorry Entertainer.
In 2014 Beattie released his first solo record, Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase,[17][18] a musical audiodrama on disc that comes in a fully illustrated book, featuring art by his wife Valerie Fowler.