Portastatic - Be Still Please - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A double-disc of rarities, collecting B-Sides, compilation tracks, EPs, fanzine vinyl and previously unreleased material between 1990 and 2007. Album Tracks 1. Starter 2. Sandals with White Socks 3. Oh My Sweet Carolina 4. Lousy Penpal 5. A Cunning Latch 6. Teenage Kicks 7. Too Trashed to Smoke 8. Skinny Glasses Girl 9. Trajectory 10. Power Supply 11. Josephine 12. Race You Home Mix 13. Make You Up 14. Your Own Cloud 15. When Love Breaks Down 16. Portraits from Before the War 17. Soft Fruit 18. Easily Aroused 19. Guessing 20. Little Fern 21. All I Need Is You 22. You Love to Fail 23. Some Small History 24. San Andreas Crouch 25. Not the Same 26. And I Was a Boy from School 27. Spying on the Spys 28. Weighted Raft 29. Dragging a Crow 30. Gray Robins 31. I Wanna Know Girls (Demo) 32. Feel Better 33. Useless Switch 34. Had 35. Secret Session 36. Tugboat 37. Codes, Runes, Dunes 38. Candy Cigarettes 39. Firefly 40. La Pelicula 41. Look, Honey, Peaches 42. Replacement Parts 43. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

The solo project of Mac McCaughan, known for his work in Superchunk and as co-owner of Merge Records. The latest in a long series of seminal recordings from one of indie rock's most distinguished and prolific songwriters, and the first proper Portastatic full-length since 1997's InchThe Nature of SapInch. Far from lo-fi, it's a fully realized musical statement. Guests include Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi), Tony Crow (Lambchop), Margaret White (Sparklehorse, North Elementary), Matthew McCaughan, Aaron Oliva, and John Plymale. Album Tracks 1. Oh Come Down 2. In the Lines 3. Windy Village 4. Through a Rainy Lens 5. Don't Disappear 6. Swimming Through Tires 7. Chesapeake 8. Noisy Night 9. Clay Cakes 10. Drill Me 11. Paratrooper 12. Hey Salty 13. Bonus Track 1

Album Tracks 1. All I Do 2. Crestfallen 3. The Queen of Detroit 4. Beverley Road 5. Manifest Destiny (In General) 6. The Declaration of Independence 7. Setting Your Head on Fire 8. The Industrial Revolution 9. Yo Yo Yo (Please Don't Fall in Love) 10. I Sleep Forever 11. All I Have to Do Is Make You 12. Ill Advised 13. The Seperation of Church and State