DETAILS
TRACKS
- Sundown, Sundown
- The Grand Duel / Once Upon A Time In The West
- I Let Love In
- May Be One, May Be Nine
- Mona Lisa
RELEASE DATE
02/04/2022
What do you do when you’re a seven person band who hasn’t been able to play together for more than a year? What if you have a penchant for large ensemble arrangements? How do you attempt to pull off a recording when, as a group, you haven't been able to strum an acoustic guitar within the same four walls for a year? When the world has lit on fire and charred you along the way? The answer, for us, was to start from a common, known starting point. To take the songwriting out of the equation. In short. We made a covers EP.
For “Our Side Of Their Story” we enlisted engineering skillsmith, Elliott Smith collaborator, and TapeOp creationer Larry Crane. Larry is a recording legend here in Portland (if you don’t know his catalog look it up) and this was a chance for us to work with someone new that we greatly admired. Plus we wouldn’t have to touch a fader.
We recorded basic tracks for this EP in two days. But not just ANY two days. The two hottest days in recorded history in Portland, OR. A bizarre and terrifying heat dome descended upon us sustaining Mephistophelian temperatures like 116° for these sessions. Reminding us that we hadn’t yet made it out of the proverbial frying pan. As if we needed any reminding.
Cast iron frying pan aside.. We wound up working with one of the greatest harmonica blowers in the world (seriously, look up his credits) Mickey Raphael. You can hear real strings all over this record thanks to string wizardry of Andrew Joslyn. Hell, we also worked with a fella (jazz bassist Todd Sickafoose) who has 1⁄2 of an EGOT.
EXPLORE

Glitterfox
Live at Mississippi Studios

Old Unconscious
The Circular Ruins

Califone
Califone CD Reissues

The Hackles
Song For The Fool

Adam Selzer
Slow Decay

M. Ward
End of Amnesia

Chainsaw Records
Chainsaw Records Bundle

Jeff London
Trouble Trust

Defective AI
A Book Of Coherent Warnings

Eyelids
Jay Gonzalez Sings Eyelids Sings Jay Gonzalez Sings Eyelids

Old Unconscious
Lyle

Team Dresch
Team Dresch Bundles

Hallelujah The Hills
Against Electricity

Norfolk & Western
Dusk In Cold Parlors

Norfolk & Western
Dinero Severo

José Medeles
Art of Slowness: The Halfling Session

Martha Scanlan
The West Was Burning

Martha Scanlan
Tongue River Stories: Autumn

Old Unconscious
Sunfort

Martha Scanlan
The River and The Light

The Hackles
The Twilight's Calling It Quits

1939 Ensemble
New Cinema

Eyelids
Maybe More

Corrina Repp
How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All

Motrik
Safety Copy

Martha Scanlan
The Shape of Things Gone Missing, The Shape of Things To Come

Annalisa Tornfelt & Gideon Freudmann
Unraveling

Hallelujah The Hills
No One Knows What Happens Next

1939 Ensemble
Beats & Saints

The Builders And The Butchers
Dead Reckoning

Arch Cape
Arch Cape

Kpants
Smile And Nod Accordingly

Boxhead Ensemble
Electric Guitar

Eyelids
or

Nick Jaina
A Bird In The Opera House

No. 2
What Does Good Luck Bring?

The Geraldine Fibbers
Lost Somewhere Between The Earth and My Home

Matthew Hattie Hein
In Search of Lost Hein

Dave Depper
Utrecht Suite

Norfolk & Western
Centralia

The Maroons
You're Gonna Ruin Everything

Motrik
"33"

Red Red Meat
Post-coital Ghost Dreams From A Warm Mammal Pile

The Builders And The Butchers
Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well

The Born Losers
The Born Losers

Boxhead Ensemble
Here: Chicago Sessions

Tim Rutili & Craig Ross
Guitars Tuned To Air Conditioners

Eyelids
Slow It Goes
