Consider the barrel-bottom scraped
As we’d mentioned, as part of our 20th at Maxwell’s, we compiled this smattering of unreleased
(read: iffy) older songs spanning ’91 – ’97; most never-before-heard, some for good reason.
With one exception, these songs pre-date any of our albums and were all originally recorded in the then-standard media format of stone tablets (as pictured below):
(”wrens, I bought this tablet at your merch table and most of the Commandments came off in the wash. I’ve sent a burning bush to PayPal”
- Moses)
Note that these are CD-Rs, folks, though lovingly burnt by us and shipped in a cover by Phillip Niemeyer of Northern-Southern Design in Brooklyn&Austin that slyly unfolds to become a poster:
..and the cover/poster back:
They're a wee labor-intensive since we're folding the posters by hand like master origamists and the run is limited at the moment to 200 (numbered, naturally). So for the time being, even in this post-cd age, we're charging $10.
Once the covers are gone, we'll figure something out.
That also makes it the first poster we’ve ever sold but hopefully now, not the last.
Here’s the track listing (w/ year recorded):
1. The French Song (1991)
2. Soft Castration (1991)
3. Lips of Blue (1992)
4. Don’t Be Shy (1997)
5. Silverware (1992)
6. 6th & Atlantic (1990)
7. 65 (1991)
Makes a great gift for the holidays. Although at this point, given that we mail these ourselves, probably figure on that holiday being Groundhog Day.
They’re available here in our store.
