If you would like your favorite North American record store to stock this record please request they order from Revolver.
For TV / Film licensing, please contact Lyle Hysen at Bank Robber Music – [email protected].
Read on for Tim Midyett’s thoughts on this EP.
What began as a fairly loose (for me) arrangement of fellow travelers has coalesced into an actual band.
I like the sustained energy, the capacity for collective growth, the surprises, etc.
Greatly pleased by this development.
Most of this record was recorded by what is by now the core group:
Me (Tim Midyett, formerly of Silkworm and Bottomless Pit) on baritone guitar, almost always 12-string nowadays. Plus some other bits.
Jeff Panall (Songs: Ohia) on the drums, always I hope.
Justin Brown (Palliard) on electric guitar and also, very notably, on pedal steel.
Matthew Barnhart (Tre Orsi and inveterate road dog) on bass guitar. Fun fact: Barney had never played bass until being in this band. Wouldn’t have known, right?
We made this record in my basement, as usual. Barney recorded a lot of it. I recorded some overdubs and the vocals, the way I do (haphazardly). Dumped the ‘puter stuff to 16-track at Electrical Audio and mixed from the tape.
Had a couple overdubs on Fight It, one on Golden. Nothing extra on Can’t Find a Hat.
The last tune, Disappearing Music, is built on a fifteen-year-old (!) demo. I’d always been very fond of it, but I couldn’t quite get the tune over the hump.
I did what I have come to do whenever I get stumped on a non-band recording…I sent it to my pal Howard Draper (Shearwater, Tre Orsi) in Portland, OR.
Left a couple minutes of bare drum machine at the end…didn’t tell him about it, just left it there to see what happened.
Well, what happened was Howard finished off the track for me, at long last, for which I am grateful.
The record is about longing, I suppose. If I had to boil it down. Which I do, since this is a one-sheet and not me writing a 33 1/3 book about my own record.
I love the cover a lot. Jim Newberry’s photos have the vibe. An oblique wistfulness. Young women ride carefully and warily down the street, and the young man is lost in his fingernails, oblivious to their existence–the wiper and side mirror more aware of the world than he is. And padlocks that protect nothing, hanging empty and wide-open on a line.
Heartroller is dedicated to my dear friend Karl Hendricks and his family.
Tim Midyett
Chicago, Illinois
OUT / Stomatopod split 7″ (cmo043.5)
While you patiently wait for their second album, OUT have two new, exclusive songs (“All Points West” and “Prepper’s Call”) on a split single with Chicago trio Stomatopod. Slightly different than what you heard on their debut “Swim Buddies,” but no less as excellent.
Order a copy here, or take a listen at one of the following digital locales:
John Huston and Ike Turner (who hadn’t known each other that long) shared a room together at a music festival they were both playing, and instead of doing knife-hits or going ice fishing, they hung out and watched a lot of Roseanne.
It was a bonding thing, like the bond Jackie has with Roseanne in some ways.
Over the past three years, their respective groups (Chicago trio Stomatopod and OUT of Kalamazoo, Michigan) have grown close, playing shows together whenever they can, and even sharing common bandmates (John and Chafe from OUT play in the outstanding Mars Hill), so this split release just feels right.
It’s “Ziggy”-level appealing, really.
The songs here are somewhat darker affairs for each band, possibly a product of the turbulent last year, possibly some weird Jungian connection, or maybe just coincidence. Whatever the case, these four songs – split across two sides – hang together nicely.
Think of this release as the first Becky, back when she had some fire in her guts.
300 copies. 150 for each band. Whoever sells out first lives.
A joint release between Pirate Alley and Comedy Minus One.
The Gotobeds “Fucking in the Future +5” Lp (cmo042)
The future is NOW! The Gotobeds demo + singles collection “Fucking in the Future +5” is out!
Physical records of both colors can be ordered direct from Comedy Minus One right here, or you can purchase in the Sub Pop MegaMart.
Digital files can be downloaded / streamed from the following locations, among other services:
If you would like your favorite North American record store to stock “FITF +5,” please request they order from Revolver.
For TV / Film licensing, please contact Lyle Hysen at Bank Robber Music – [email protected].
Curious aesthetes! Cursorily interested parties! Whatever the opposite of well-wishers are! You are each invited to re-examine The Gotobeds’ past that is contained herein.
These sounds represent the embryonic stages of said band – Five songs are culled from their unfortunately-titled 2012 demo tape “Fucking in the Future,” four are from the Mind Cure 45s “Ipso Facto” and “NY’s Alright,” as well as a recently-recorded cover of “Flowers Avenue,” a song by their dearly-departed friend and Pittsburgh music legend Karl Hendricks.
From demo to forever-out-of-print 7”s to the cover, “Fucking in the Future +5” spans the earliest recording of the band to the their most-recent (the Karl Hendricks track was recorded in March 2017).
Boy how they’ve grown! When the band convened on the studio for the first time ever as a unit in those halcyon days of 2012, it was a bleak scene. The drummer forgot his floor tom. The bass speaker had torn recently and was not replaced. The singer was at the mercy of the final stages of mono and the guitarist didn’t show up for live tracking (due to a previous night of gambling at the casino).
Little has changed however. During the final take of “Flowers Avenue,” drummer Getty Images dropped his stick at a thrilling climax during the solo (check the 4:10 mark) and the band – assuming the take was a throwaway – played harder and took more risks with their improvised parts, lending the song a looser and more exciting feel than previous takes. Happy accidents are what the band trades in.
The rest is allmusic.com history. The Gotobeds went on from their initial recordings to the WFMU studios, into Gerard Cosloy’s hands for their debut LP on 12XU, the brilliantly titled Poor People Are Revolting, to critical darlings and eventually the cut-out bin at Sub Pop’s airport store.
From there, who knows?
SELLING POINTS:
This is the first time the entire GTB demo tape has been available on vinyl!
Remastered by Mr. Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service (if you know, you know).
The two Mind Cure 7”s are out of print FOREVER. These tracks are now only available here (smart ass, it’s a different version of “NY’s Alright” OK???).
Includes a brand NEW cover of The Karl Hendricks Trio’s “Flowers Avenue” exclusive to this release. Hazy Lazer cried while singing it.
Gorgeous new full color artwork.
Limited to 500 copies, with the first 200 pressed on white vinyl. Buy now or scan Discogs later!!!
Light Coma “CONCORD” Lp
After backing Mr. Andrew Cohen for “Unreality,” Chicago’s Light Coma continues forward and beyond where their debut album “COUNTERMEASURES” left off: excellent songcraft arranged and performed accurately and intuitively for guitar, bass, drums and voice.
After a busy phase of life, liberty, family and collaboration, Light Coma’s second full-length, “CONCORD” steps back up and announces itself from right behind you. Over the course of nine tracks, the trio provides another a grand journey onward and through the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the forwards, the backwards.
“CONCORD” will make you have more feelings.
This is the first Light Coma record in seven years and their first album released on vinyl.
Tuesday, May 15th
The Peer Hat
Manchester, UK SAVAK with Grey Hairs
Wednesday, May 16th
The Hug & Pint
Glasgow, UK SAVAK with Grey Hairs, Jutland Songs
Thursday, May 17th
The Cumberland Arms
Newcastle, UK SAVAK with Grey Hairs, The Unit Alma
Friday, May 18th
Maze
Nottingham, UK SAVAK with Grey Hairs, Slumb Party
Friday, May 18th
The Rock Room
Pittsburgh, PA The Gotobeds with Choir
Saturday, May 19th
New River Studios
London, UK SAVAK with Grey Hairs, Sweet Williams
Saturday, June 2nd
Riverlights Music Festival (North Stage)
South Bend, IN The Rutabega
Saturday, June 23rd
The Organ Factory (PRF BBQ)
Chicago, IL The Rutabega with The Austerity Program, Body Futures, The Gary, Maple Stage and more
Sunday, June 24th
The Organ Factory (PRF BBQ)
Chicago, IL OUT with Mint Mile, Minutes, These Estates and more
Stores and distributors are welcome to contact us about stocking these titles. Comedy Minus One is distributed directly in North America through Revolver. European customers can contact Day After for our wares.
