Upcoming Releases from SUB POP Records

[KevinMichael]

here you go.

UPCOMING SUB POP RELEASES >>
2005-07-26 - J U L Y 26 - FRUIT BATS - Spelled in Bones (CD/LP)

Eric Johnson has been making experimental and pop-inflected folk-rock with increasing compositional and thematic complexity since Califone/Perishable Records founders Tim Rutili and Ben Massarella prompted him to explore his craft in the mid-‘90s (leading to Perishable’s 2001 release of the Fruit Bats’ debut, Echolocation). Around the release of their last album (2003’s Mouthfuls on Sub Pop), Harp magazine described the Fruit Bats as residing somewhere on a continuum between Califone and The Shins, combining, “...the latter’s widescreen vision with the former’s melodic knack to create something at once familiar and new.” Years of extensive touring followed, including stints with Modest Mouse, The Shins and Iron & Wine, as well as a handful of Wilco opening slots. Spelled in Bones is truly Johnson’s enlightened Romantic opus — in the 18th century English literary sense of the term. With an emphasis on the “bigger picture” of life as it relates to nature’s organic relationship to man (“Legs of Bees,” “Spelled in Bones”), and irrational, spontaneous moments of beauty and rebirth (“Every Day That We Wake Up It’s a Beautiful Day”), Spelled in Bones proffers warm, thoughtful, bittersweet pop that’s as hopeful as it is curious.

URL: http://www.fruitbatsmusic.com/

2005-08-09 - A U G U S T 9 - HOLOPAW - Quit +/or Fight

Gainesville, Florida’s Holopaw (named after a Florida town none of them are from) rises to more textural, delicate artistic heights on Quit +/or Fight, the follow-up to their 2003 self-titled Sub Pop debut. You might recall Holopaw vocalist John Orth from Ugly Casanova’s Sharpen Your Teeth from a few years back; he co-wrote that with Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse). Recorded by Mike Pecchio, resident producer at Scandalabra Studios in Brooklyn, NY, and with the aide of The Mercury Program’s Tom Reno and Dave LeBleu (guitar and vibes) and Daedelus (winds), each dynamic track on Quit +/or Fight, tells its tale through sweet, understated and complexly orchestrated melody that engages as it soothes. The end result: an improbable group of individuals all coming together to create an album that is quietly moving, filled with small gestures that speak volumes.

URL: http://www.holopaw.net/holopaw/

last SP album I got was "The Woods" by SK and I love it... I wish they had a Dallas date on their tour but they don't

you think you could hook me up with a badass SK promo poster?

[KevinMichael]

i think i can do that.

that would kick ass, that Fruit Bats album sounds cool... think i'll take a trip over to Good Records in a couple of days and check it out