Subpop : Early Spring 2009 :: Release Schedule
F E B R U A R Y
17 VETIVER Tight Knit (CD/LP) Tight Knit is the fourth full-length album from Vetiver—singer/songwriter Andy Cabic’s ever-evolving musical home base. Luminous and surprising, Tight Knit unfolds like a road trip through the Appalachian Mountains of Cabic’s native Virginia. It represents a summation of the different styles and directions heard on past Vetiver releases, while it introduces some unexpected twists. Recorded in Sacramento at The Hangar and in LA at Melva, Tight Knit was produced by longtime Vetiver collaborator Thom Monahan. Vetiver’s songs have been described as “dreamy, gentle songs that George Harrison would have written in some sunny country garden.” Happily, that element remains alive and well on Tight Knit, as evidenced in songs like album opener “Rolling Sea” and “Everyday.” The album also introduces new aspects of the band’s sound with the light bop of “Sister” and “On the Other Side,” and the faraway and ethereal “Down from Above” and “At Forest Edge (The Verdant Field).” Tight Knit is layered and rich, with subtleties and nuances that reveal themselves with repeated listening. While there’s also more immediate gratification than on past Vetiver releases, Tight Knit is an album that rewards your attention.
M A R C H
10 HANDSOME FURS FACE CONTROL (CD/LP) “This band is completely based, aesthetically and otherwise, on travelling, on absorbing places and regurgitating them in music,” says Handsome Furs’ Dan Boeckner. FACE CONTROL, the second album by the Montreal band, draws inspiration from Eastern Europe and re-maps Eastern Bloc surveillance state themes to contemporary life and the irony of our slow acceptance and embrace of self-monitoring, through blogs and facebooks and myspaces and credit/debit accounts and surveillance cameras and GPS devices. The album’s juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats, courtesy of Alexei Perry, with the jagged, dissonant and frail, broken or breaking, guitars of Dan Boeckner convey what it is to be a human being at the bottom of the 21st century. And, at the same time, provides the means to opt out. Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner wrote the songs on FACE CONTROL together. The album was recorded and mixed by Arlen Thompson at Mount Zoomer and was mastered by Harris Newman at Hotel2Tango.
24 RED RED MEAT Bunny Gets Paid: Deluxe Edition (Double CD) Red Red Meat’s third full-length record, 1995′s Bunny Gets Paid has been out of print and unavailable for the past several years. And, while that’s a genuine shame on the face of it, it also provides a really good excuse for a deluxed-up reissue. In a recent reassessment of Red Red Meat’s catalog on Pitchfork, Managing Editor Mark Richardson commented, “Having lived with these records for a decade plus now, I can say with confidence that this is Red Red Meat’s best by far. It’s one of the best pure rock records of the 1990s, actually, though it’s not exactly pure.” Unsurprisingly, we at Sub Pop heartily agree. And we’ve been talking about putting together this expanded reissue for the better part of a year now. In this deluxe edition, the original album has been remastered by Red Red Meat’s own Brian Deck and is accompanied by a 7-song 2nd disc of alternate, demo and single versions of album tracks, plus b-sides, covers and a previously unreleased song from the same era (“St. Anthony’s Jawbone”), all put together by the band. And it’s all packaged with expanded and enhanced album art. Bunny Gets Paid is easily one of the high points in the entire Sub Pop catalog (which is no one’s idea of “pure” either…), and we’re exceedingly proud to present it in this new version.
24 OBITS I Blame You (CD/LP) Obits are Rick Froberg, Sohrab Habibion, Greg Simpson, and Scott Gursky. They reside in Brooklyn, NY. There is a bootleg of their first live show from Jan. ‘08 at the Cake Shop in NY somewhere on the internet. As with most of these sorts of things, the sound quality of that recording is pretty poor. The songs though… The songs are really great. Obits like a lot of music—Television, Wipers, Michael Yonkers, 13th Floor Elevators, Neu!, The Shangri-Las, African psych, punk rock. They don’t really sound that much like Creedence, maybe a little. Since that first show, we somehow convinced them that releasing some records on Sub Pop would be a good idea. Obits came out to Seattle in July of 2008 and played our 20th anniversary festival. In December of 2008, they released their first single, “One Cross Apiece” b/w “Put It in Writing” on their own Stint Records label and did some touring with the Constantines and The Night Marchers. “We’re not into innovation as a band,” says Froberg, who’s already done his fair share of innovating with Drive Like Jehu and Hot Snakes. “I think innovation is overrated and an overestimated quality. Anything that’s going to be original is going to happen without your control. Things that make your band sound like you, are things you wouldn’t be able to change anyway. We just go ahead and play the stuff we like, and we don’t worry about originality per se, because that takes care of itself.” Produced by Geoff Sanoff, Eli Janney and Obits, I Blame You is the band’s debut full-length album.
U P C O M I N G: FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, GRAND ARCHIVES, A FRAMES/CLIMAX GOLDEN TWINS, THE ALBUM LEAF, BEACHWOOD SPARKS, EUGENE MIRMAN, PISSED JEANS, THE VASELINES (The Way of The Vaselines deluxe reissue), IRON & WINE (unreleased rarities compilation)…
Tour Dates :
VETIVER TOUR DATES:
Mar 10 Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
Mar 11 Talking Head, Baltimore, MD
Mar 12 Cats Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Mar 13 Soapbox Lounge, Wilmington, NC
Mar 14 Snug Harbor, Charlotte, NC
Mar 15 Bottle Tree, Birmingham, AL
Mar 16 Square Room, Knoxville, TN
Mar 22 Back Booth, Orlando, FL
Mar 23 Cafe Eleven, St. Augustine, FL
Mar 24 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA
Mar 25 Grey Eagle Tavern, Asheville, NC
HANDSOME FURS TOUR DATES:
Mar 14 Blind Pig (MI), Ann Arbor, MI
Mar 15 Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
Mar 16 Off Broadway, St Louis, MO
Mar 17 Mojo’s, Columbia, MO
Mar 20 Club Deville, Austin, TX
Mar 21 The Loft (TX), Dallas, TX
Mar 23 Jackpot Saloon, Lawrence, KS
Mar 25 Aquarium (Dempsey’s Upstairs), Fargo, ND
Mar 26 7th St Entry, Minneapolis, MN
Mar 27 Maintenance Shop, Ames, IA
Mar 28 The Mill, Iowa City, IA
Mar 30 Southgate House, Newport, KY
Mar 31 Brillobox, Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 01 Bug Jar, Rochester, NY
Apr 02 Spark Art Space, Syracuse, NY
OBITS TOUR DATES:
Feb 02 Fen’s Party Palace, Seattle, WA
Mar 16 Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC
Mar 17 Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
Mar 18 One Eyed Jacks, New Orleans, LA
Mar 23 Hi-Tone, Memphis, TN
Mar 24 Southgate House, Newport, KY
Mar 27 Bell House, The, Brooklyn, NY
More tour dates listed here.
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