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Deerhunter: Weird Era Cont.

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On October 28, 2008, “Kranky” and “4AD” labels released “Weird Era Cont.”, the fourth Deerhunter studio album. It was recorded 2007 – 2008, and was produced by Bradford J. Cox, Joshua Fauver, Lockett Pundt and Moses Archuleta.

Personnel:

  • Bradford J. Cox – vocal, guitar, keyboards
  • Lockett Pundt – vocals, guitar
  • Joshua Fauver – bass
  • Moses Archuleta – drums
  • Drew Vandenberg – guitar, piano, percussion
  • David Barbe – guitar, Wurlitzer, percussion

Track listing:

  1. Backspace Century
  2. Operation
  3. Ghost Outfit
  4. Dot Gain
  5. Vox Celeste
  6. Cicadas
  7. Vox Humana
  8. VHS Dream
  9. Focus Group
  10. Slow Swords
  11. Weird Era
  12. Moon Witch Cartridge
  13. Calvary Scars II / Aux. Out

Spelling: The Turning Wheel

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On June 25, 2021, “Sacred Bones” label released “The Turning Wheel”, the third Spellling (Chrystia “Tia” Cabral) studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Spelling.

Personnel:

  • Spellling (Chrystia “Tia” Cabral) – vocals, synthesizer
  • Milo Jimenez – acoustic guitar
  • Macgregor Munson – banjo
  • Donia Jarrar – piano
  • Javier Santiago – piano
  • Brijean Murphy – conga drum
  • Lidia Rodriguez – baritone saxophone
  • Sara Mayo – trombone
  • Jennifer Hinkle – bass trombone
  • Monica Benson – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Rebecca Steinberg – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Carolyn Walter – bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Erin Paul – horn
  • Calliope Brass Quintet – brass
  • Jinty McTavish – violin
  • Sabrina Tabby – violin
  • Rita Andrade – viola
  • Del Sol Quartet – strings
  • Noor Al-Samarrai – choir
  • Dharma Mooney – choir
  • Ezra Teshome – choir
  • Ted Case – string arrangements
  • Nick Marchione – brass arrangement
  • Aleks Ozolins – engineer
  • John Finkbeiner – engineer
  • Drew Vandenberg – mixing, additional production
  • Adrian Morgan – mastering
  • Jonny Esser – mastering
  • Mike Johnson – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Spellling.

  1. Little Deer
  2. Always
  3. Turning Wheel
  4. The Future
  5. Awaken
  6. Emperor with an Egg
  7. Boys at School
  8. Legacy
  9. Queen of Wands
  10. Magic Act
  11. Revolution
  12. Sweet Talk

Kishi Bashi: 151a

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On April 10, 2012, “Joyful Boise Recordings” label released “151a”, the debut Kishi Bashi album. It was recorded 2011 -2012, at “Home Studios” in Norfolk, VA, “Apollinaire Rave”, “Chase Park Transduction”, “Yoed’s Apartment Studios”, and was produced by Kishi Bashi.

Personnel:

  • Kishi Bashi (Kaoru Ishibashi) – vocal, guitar, violin, keyboards, programming, mixing, mastering
  • Bryan Poole – guitar
  • James Huggins III – guitar
  • Thayer Serrano – vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards
  • Nicolas Dobbratz – tambourine
  • Dottie Alexander – keyboards
  • Clayton Rychlik – percussion
  • Davey Pierce – synth, snare
  • Nick Gould – saxophone
  • Yoed Nir – cello
  • Jarrod Fowler – instruments
  • Sola Ravel – Asian child sounds
  • The Athens Biohazard Manplayers – vocals, handclaps
  • Drew Vandenberg – mixing
  • Joe Lambert – mastering
  • David J. Woodruff – artwork
  • Jerrod Landon Porter – artwork
  • Woodruff & Sons – layout
  • Katie Belle Moore – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Kishi Bashi.

  1. Intro / Pathos, Pathos
  2. Manchester
  3. Bright Whites
  4. It All Began with a Burst
  5. Wonder Woman, Wonder Me
  6. Chester’s Burst Over the Hamptons
  7. Atticus, In the Desert
  8. I Am the Antichrist to You
  9. Beat the Bright Out of Me

Faye Webster: I Know I’m Funyy Haha

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On June 25, 2021, “Secretly Canadian” label released “I Know I’m Funny Haha”, the fourth Faye Webster studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Drew Vandenberg and Faye Webster.

Personnel:

  • Faye Webster – vocals, guitar
  • Matt Stoessel – guitar
  • Nick Rosen – keyboards
  • Bryan Howard – bass
  • Harold Brown – drums
  • Jeremy Wheatley – drums
  • Mei Ehara – vocals 
  • Henry White – horn
  • Tressa Gold – violin
  • Jeanette Jang – violin
  • Annie Leeth – violin
  • Anna Bishop – violin 
  • Meredith Riley – violin
  • Stacy Matthews – violin
  • Adrian Pintea – violin 
  • Elizabeth O’Hara – viola
  • Derek Smith – viola 
  • Jocelyn Smith – viola 
  • Schuyler Slack – cello
  • Noah Johnson – cello 
  • Jordi Lara – cello 
  • Trey Pollard – conductor
  • Drew Vandenberg – recording, mixing
  • Alex Dejong – recording
  • Joe Lambert – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Faye Webster.

  1. Better Distractions
  2. Sometimes
  3. I Know I’m Funny Haha
  4. In a Good Way
  5. Kind Of
  6. Cheers
  7. Both All the Time
  8. A Stranger
  9. A Dream with a Baseball Player
  10. Overslept
  11. Half of Me

Spelling: The Turning Wheel

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On June 25, 2021, “Sacred Bones Records” label released “The Turning Wheel”, the third Spellling studio album. It was recorded in 2021, and was produced by Spelling (Chrystia “Tia” Cabral).

Personnel:

  • Spelling – vocals
  • Milo Jimenez – acoustic guitar
  • Macgregor Munson – banjo
  • Donia Jarrar – piano
  • Javier Santiago – piano
  • Brijean Murphy – conga drum
  • Lidia Rodriguez – baritone saxophone
  • Monica Benson – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Sara Mayo – trombone
  • Jennifer Hinkle – bass trombone
  • Rebecca Steinberg – flugelhorn, trumpet
  • Carolyn Walter – bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet
  • Erin Paul – horn
  • Calliope Brass Quintet – brass
  • Del Sol Quartet – strings
  • Sabrina Tabby – violin
  • Jinty McTavish – violin
  • Rita Andrade – viola
  • Dharma Mooney – choir
  • Ezra Teshome – choir
  • Noor Al-Samarrai – choir
  • Ted Case – string arrangements
  • Nick Marchione – brass arrangement
  • Aleks Ozolins – engineer
  • John Finkbeiner – engineer
  • Drew Vandenberg – additional production, mixing
  • Adrian Morgan – mastering
  • Jonny Esser – mastering
  • Mike Johnson – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Spellling.

  1. Little Deer
  2. Always
  3. Turning Wheel
  4. The Future
  5. Awaken
  6. Emperor with an Egg
  7. Boys at School
  8. Legacy
  9. Queen of Wands
  10. Magic Act
  11. Revolution
  12. Sweet Talk

Ra Ra Riot: Beta Love

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On January 22, 2013, “Barsuk” label released “Beta Love”, the third Ra Ra Riot studio album.It was recorded in 2012, and was produced by Dennis Herring.

Personnel:

  • Wes Miles – vocals, keyboards
  • Milo Bonacci – guitar, keyboards
  • Mathieu Santos – bass
  • Rebecca Zeller – violin
  • Will Cole – engineer
  • Drew Vandenberg – engineer, mixing
  • Dennis Herring – mixing
  • Howie Weinberg – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Wes Miles, Mathieu Santos, Milo Bonacci, and Rebecca Zeller.

  1. Dance with Me
  2. Binary Mind
  3. Beta Love
  4. Is It Too Much
  5. For Once
  6. Angel, Please
  7. What I Do for U
  8. When I Dream
  9. That Much
  10. Wilderness
  11. I Shut Off

Camper Van Beethoven: La Costa Perdida

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On January 22, 2013, “429 Records” label released “La Costa Perdida”, the 8th Camper Van Beethoven studio album.

Personnel:

  • David Lowery – vocals, guitar
  • Jonathan Segel – guitar, mandolin, organ, violin, background vocals
  • Greg Lisher – guitar
  • Victor Krummenacher – guitar, bass
  • Chris Pedersen – drums
  • Michael Urbano – drums, percussion
  • David Barbe – percussion
  • Alex Kroh – percussion
  • Payton Bradford – backing vocals
  • Carter King – backing vocals
  • Thomas Johnson – backing vocals
  • Dennis Love – backing vocals
  • Brannen Miles – backing vocals
  • Hardy Morris – backing vocals
  • Sanna Olsson – backing vocals
  • Peach Boys – backing vocals
  • Daniel Womack – backing vocals
  • Ansley Stewart – backing vocals
  • Velena Vego – backing vocals
  • Drew Vandenberg – engineer, mixing
  • Myles Boisen – engineer
  • Russell Pilling – engineer
  • Jason Carmer – engineer
  • Joe Lambert – mastering
  • Michael Wertz – artwork, design

Track listing:

  1. Come Down the Coast
  2. Too High for the Love-In
  3. You’ve Got to Roll
  4. Someday Our Love Will Sell Us Out
  5. Peaches in the Summertime
  6. Northern California Girls
  7. Summer Days
  8. La Costa Perdida
  9. Aged in Wood
  10. A Love for All Time

of Montreal: Innocence Reaches

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On August 12, 2016, “Polyvinyl” label released “Innocence Reaches”, the fourteenth of Montreal studio album. It was recorded in 2016, and was produced by Kevin Barnes.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Barnes – vocals, bass, drum programming, guitar, synthesizer, engineer, mixing
  • Bennett Lewis – guitar
  • Clayton Rychlik – drums, percussion, piano
  • JoJo Glidewell – keyboards, piano, synthesizer
  • Keiko Ishibashi – violin
  • Philip Mayer – percussion
  • Robert Parins – acoustic guitar, pedal steel
  • Zac Colwell – brass, woodwind
  • Drew Vandenberg – engineer
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • David Barnes – artwork
  • Jerrod Landon Porter – layout, lettering

Track listing:

All tracks by Kevin Barnes.

  1. Let’s Relate
  2. It’s Different for Girls
  3. Gratuitous Abysses
  4. My Fair Lady
  5. Les Chants de Maldoror
  6. A Sport and a Pastime
  7. Ambassador Bridge
  8. Def Pacts
  9. Chaos Arpeggiating
  10. Nursing Slopes
  11. Trashed Exes
  12. Chap Plot

of Montreal: Paralytic Stalks

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On February 7, 2012, “Polyvinyl” label released “Paralytic Stalks”, the eleventh of Montreal studio album. It was recorded in 2011, at “Sunlandic Studios” in Athens, Georgia, and was produced by Kevin Barnes.

Personnel:

  • Kevin Barnes– vocals
  • Bryan Poole– guitar
  • Dottie Alexander– keyboards
  • Davey Pierce – bass
  • Clayton Rychlik – drums, keys, guitar, bass
  • Nicolas Dobbratz – keyboards, percussion, bass, guitar
  • Rebecca Cash – vocals, keyboards, bass, percussion
  • Kevin Barnes, Drew Vandenberg – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Kevin Barnes.

  1. Gelid Ascent
  2. Spiteful Intervention
  3. Dour Percentage
  4. We Will Commit Wolf Murder
  5. Malefic Dowery
  6. Ye, Renew the Plaintiff
  7. Wintered Debts
  8. Exorcismic Breeding Knife
  9. Authentic Pyrrhic Remission