The 2007 Music Issue

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2007

Label: The Believer

Liner Notes:
At times, preexisting songs (even B-sides, remixes, and other rarities) didn't work, gaps remained, so we mustered gumption and asked folks to record music especially for us. Sufjan Stevens, Lightning Bolt, and Zach Condon responded to site-specific queries.
Track 1: © 2007 Kranky, Ltd. From Cryptograms (Kranky)
Track 2: Recorded at Gaucho's, 2006. Mastered at Infrasonic Sound. © 2006 No Age. From Get Hurt (Upset The Rhythm)
Track 3: Recorded and mixed at Headgear Studios in Brooklyn, June 2006. © ℗ 2006 Sub Pop. From Remember The Night Parties (Sub Pop)
Track 4: Recorded at the Buddy Project in Astoria, Queens, NY. Mixed at home in Brooklyn, NY © 2007 Asthmatic Kitty Records. Previously unreleased. It was recorded in space and time. It was recorded here and now. It is being recorded even as we sleep.
Track 5: © 2006 EMI Sweden. ℗ 2007 Mute. "The Painter" is a U.S.-exclusive bonus track from the album Let Me Introduce My Friends (Mute). It originally appeared on the Don't Give Up On Your Dreams, Buddy! EP, released in Sweden in 2006.
Track 6: The song previously appeared on The Next Best Thing 7"/book, a collaboration with the San Francisco artist Jeremy Fish. The title to this CD comes from this song. Production and vocals for 21 Bazooka Salute (SESAC). Recorded at All This Could Be Yours. Mixed, Gotham Studios, New York. Mastered, New York.
Track 7: The EP was conceived when having some drinks and tapas with Valgeir. We challenged him to record, mix and master three songs in the shortest amount of time possible (we gave ourselves ten hours). We were all drunk and having fun, so for some reason he agreed to it. With us at the studio were our friends and family. Árni +1 (of Icelandic legends FM BELFAST, Hairdoctor and Motion Boys) was there with us, and as soon as the last guitar track was recorded he took off with the master to remix it. He turned in his remix EP ten hours later, at 10 AM. © 2007 Reykjavik! From the "Dirty Weekend with Reykjavík!" EP.
Track 8: While figuring out a song by The Blow to use, Jona Bechtolt, who also records largely solo material as YACHT, cannily suggested this song, which has the word "believe" in the title, and could therefore almost function as a fight song for our publication. For more information, please read Miranda July's interview with Jona's Blow compatriot, Khaela Maricich, in this issue. © 2007 Jona Bechtolt, I Learned It From Watching Grunge Music (ASCAP), administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP). From the album I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. (Marriage).
Track 9: Recorded in Glasgow, Scotland at Chem 19 Studios. Mixed at Tarquin Studios. © 2007 The Twilight Sad. Published by Fat Cat Records 2007. Originally released as a B-side to That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy, a Britain-only 7".
Track 10: For more of Of Montreal please read Amy Benfer's interview with Kevin Barnes in this issue. Published by Apollinaire Rave (BMI). Administration by BUG. From the EP Icons, Abstract Thee (Polyvinyl Record Co.)
Track 11: Written, mixed, and mastered, 2006. Recorded in the Apple Union. © 2006 Suicide Squeeze Records © 2006 Page France. Copyright and publishing 2006 Portable and Affordable Songs (ASCAP). From the Tomato Morning (tour EP) courtesy of Suicide Squeeze Records
Track 12: Recorded at Fracne Inter on February 6, 2006. © 2006 Padma Newsome
Track 13: The Blow's a duo from Olympia, Washington. Taken from the Parentheses 7" single (Tomlab). © Jona Bechtolt, I Learned It From Watching Grunge Music (ASCAP), Khaela Maricich, More Than A Music (ASCAP), administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP). The original version appears on Paper Television (K Records).
Track 14: Recorded sometime between 1994 and 1997 in Fox's apartment on West 101st Street in Cleveland, Ohio, using a Fostex 160 4-track cassette recorder. For more on Bill Fox, read Joe Hagan's essay in this issue. Song appeared on the 1998 album Transit Byzantium (spinART). © ℗ 1998 spinART Records.
Track 15: Recorded on the banks of the Colorado River. © 2004 Explosions In The Sky (BMI).
Track 16: Previously unreleased. From the Magik Markers' upcoming Ecstatic Peace release. In Ambrogio's words, "This is a really clean version of what will be on the album. The final cut will probably be totally different."
Track 17: Recorded March 13-19, 2005, in the mill at Gala Farm in Cranbrook, Tasmania, Australia. Mixed at the Loft in Gippsland. Mastered at Crystal Mastering. Mushroom Publishing. Taken from the album Gala Mill (ATP Recordings)
Track 18: At one point we'd been considering a "nighttime music/lullaby" theme. I mentioned it to Zach Condon via his record label. He wrote this song with that theme in mind. Condon also records as Beirut. Zach Condon appears courtesy of Ba Da Bing Records.
Track 19: On February 19, 2007, I approached Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt and asked if he would record the "Believer" a "three-minute burst." This song is actually 4:54, but it's his response to that idea, which he retitled "three-minute boast" and "three minute burst! or bust!" The song itself came to be called "Deceiver". Recorded live on a Tascam 424 cassette 4-track in the Hillarious Attic Providence, Rhode Island, February 2007. © 2007 Lightning Bolt
Track 20: Copyright Control (BMI). Courtesy of Warp Records. Original version of "Easier" appears on Yellow House (Warm Records, 2006).
Alan Douches of West West Side Music/Deko Music

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