I love when sometime in the past I order a record…forget about it, then it arrives!
Last night I came home after a long day of work to a package from Polyvinyl. They finally sent me Quiet Slang’s We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbags ep. The 7-inch has two Beach Slang songs broken down and then two covers.
James Alex talks about the project, “most of the time, I’m caught in a tug-of-war between the gutter and the light, fighting to figure out where I fall. Look, all the best stuff is part-cracked and part-patched. The best humans are made the same. And that’s all this is-a love letter to all my friends who thought they were meant to die young. See?-we made it.”
I love the two covers. The Replacements “Androgynous” and Big Star’s “Thirteen.”
the two Beach Slang songs are glorious as well. Piano, cello… amazing.
ugh… and it is so pretty.
***
And since I love Polyvinyl so darn much… I saw they have have a pre-order for a book called Anthology of Emo: Volume One by Washed Up Emo podcast host Tom Mullen.
The book has a bunch of his best interviews and stories including (and we’ll quote the press release now):
Includes interviews with
- Dan Didier & Davey Von Bohlen (The Promise Ring / Maritime / Vermont)
- Norman Brannon (Texas Is the Reason / New End Original / Shelter)
- Chris Carrabba (Dashboard Confessional / Further Seems Forever / Twin Forks / Vacant Andys)
- Mike Kinsella (American Football / Owen / Cap’n Jazz / Joan of Arc / Owls / The One Up Downstairs / Their/They’re/Their)
- Chris Leo (The Van Pelt / The Lapse / Native Nod / Vague Angels)
- Caithlin De Marrais, Kaia Fischer & William Kuehn (Rainer Maria)
- Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids / The New Amsterdams / The Terrible Twos / Radar State)
- Eric Richter (Christie Front Drive / Antarctica / The 101 / Golden City)
- Blair Shehan (Knapsack / The Jealous Sound / Racquet Club)
- Chris Simpson (Mineral / The Gloria Record / Zookeeper / Mountain Time)
Real good man, real good. I needs it! Pre-Order it right here.
The Jealous Sound is fucking cool.
That’s all I got.
oh wait…look how cute my baby is!
Now I’m done.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 
Leave a Reply