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From Mac McCaughan of Superchunk To write the songs for Here's to Shutting Up, we gathered in Jim's garage (he lived way out in the woods) a couple times a week for what seemed like months. We started from actual scratch with no demos or concepts, just playing instrumental music with our usual gear plus a Casio. We recorded the album in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta at Zero Return, the studio built by Brian and Rob (aka Birdstuff and Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard) of Man or Astro-man? Brian Paulson came with us to produce it.Here's to Shutting Up was meant to be released on September 18, 2001. On September 11, the world changed. Our date moved a couple weeks, but our tour dates remained and we flew to Japan in October. It was a WILD time to be traveling the world. Receptions ranged from Inchthank you for giving us something else to think aboutInch to Inchwhy are you here?Inch We flew home from Japan and left for the UK the day the US started bombing Afghanistan. This was the climate, and the climate was not great for playing rock music. Album Tracks 1. Late-Century Dream 2. Rainy Streets 3. Phone S*x 4. Florida's on Fire 5. Out on the Wing 6. The Animal Has Left It's Shell 7. Act Surprised 8. Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama) 9. What Do You Look Forward To? 10. Drool Collection 1. Late-Century Dream 2. Rainy Streets 3. The Hot Break 4. Florida's on Fire 5. Act Surprised 6. A Collection of Accounts 7. Art Class (Song for Yayoi Kusama) 8. Flying Aka Out on the Wing 9. Becoming a Speck 10. Frank's Bath Aka Phone S*x 11. The Animal Has Left It's Shell 12. Corp Song Aka What Do You Look Forward To? 13. Drool Collection
