DETAILS
TRACKS
Side A
- The Bane Of Progress
- Gina
- How Love Is
- Slowness
- Your Cynical Stance
- And You Did
Side B
- Long Island
- Montana
- Bills To Pay (w/ Deep Clean)
- Don't Go Home
- 33
- E. Williamsburg
RELEASE DATE
06/09/2017
Vinyl edition is a Series 33 release, limited to 33 copies. Vinyl and digital download include the entire Jeff London discography, covering 10 years of recording, 87 songs (over 5 hours of music) as well as the complete lyrics and an essay by long time friend and recording engineer Adam Selzer.
GUY IN A SCENE …It’s easy to yearn for the days when our adopted home cities were full of optimism and possibility. It was Portland in the 1990s, under the radar and not yet discovered by chic restaurateurs, baristas with mustaches, and an IFC variety television show. Portland was off the radar, offering cheap rent, plenty of space, and an air of opportunity. I had been in Portland less than a year in 1998 when I discovered an all ages venue in the SE Woodstock neighborhood called 17 Nautical Miles. The venue was long and narrow, void of any character other than the baggy flannel attire of the crowd (we all know the stereotype was true) and the thick haze of Parliament and American Spirit smoke…a guy with an acoustic guitar whose ramshackle finger picking was struggling to keep up with his vulnerable vocal delivery. He had an old Casio keyboard on stage with him and on occasion, he’d use a piece of duct tape to hold down a key or two to provide some lo-fi drone accompaniment….muddled and jumbled playing gave a sense of urgency to some of the best lyrics I’d ever heard from a contemporary songwriter.
THE EXORCISMS …Looking at his tense shoulders and scurried manor as he walked off stage, I got the impression that he wasn’t up there necessarily because he wanted to be, but rather because he had no other choice. He needed to exorcise the songs. He was somewhat disheveled and scattered but upon talking to him, he appeared authentically appreciative that his music and lyrics had reached discerning, or at least encouraging ears. Sharing his songs, his life, his neurosis was a necessary catharsis. Or maybe I’m reading into it too much, who knew?
(excerpts of essay from inside booklet by Adam Selzer)
EXPLORE

José Medeles
*PRE-ORDER* Railroad Cadences & Melancholic Anthems

Dave Depper
Moon Safari

The Delines
The Sea Drift

Corrina Repp
Island

Motrik
MØØN: The Cosmic Electrics of MØTRIK

Eyelids
Eyelids Dubble Live!

Red Red Meat
Red Red Meat T

Califone
Califone "Califone" T

Chris Funk
Songs For Dog Fitness

Chainsaw Records
Chainsaw Records T Shirt

Infinite X's
Infinite X's

Longstocking
Once Upon A Time Called Now

Dave Depper
Europa

Jeff London
Trouble Trust

Team Dresch
Story Of The Earth

Motrik
Artificial Head

Slanted Floors
Pink Heaven

Chris Funk
The Painted Porch

Califone
Califone "Horsey" T

Eyelids
The Accidental Falls

John Cameron Mitchell & Eyelids
Turning Time Around EP

Califone
Echo Mine

The Hackles
A Dobritch Did As A Dobritch Should

Federale
No Justice

Defective AI
A Book Of Coherent Warnings

Old Unconscious
Lyle

Eamon Fogarty
Blue Values

Team Dresch
Team Dresch "Husband" T

Team Dresch
Choices, Chances, Changes: Singles & Comptracks 1994-2000

Team Dresch
Captain My Captain

Team Dresch
Personal Best

Hallelujah The Hills
Against Electricity

José Medeles
Art of Slowness: The Halfling Session

Old Unconscious
Sunfort

Martha Scanlan
The River and The Light

1939 Ensemble
New Cinema

Eyelids
Maybe More

Corrina Repp
How A Fantasy Will Kill Us All

Tim Rutili & Craig Ross
10 Seconds To Collapse

Motrik
Safety Copy

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

1939 Ensemble
Beats & Saints

Arch Cape
Arch Cape

Kpants
Smile And Nod Accordingly

The Geraldine Fibbers
Lost Somewhere Between The Earth and My Home

Captain Vs. Crew
All Coked Up and No Place To Go

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

Boxhead Ensemble
Here: Chicago Sessions
