Superchunk - Wild Loneliness - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Superchunk's self-titled debut album is features updated artwork and includes a bonus download of Clambakes Vol 9 Other Music From Unshowered Grumblers - Live in NYC 1990, a show recorded at CBGB just four days after the album was released. Album Tracks 1. Sick to Move 2. My Noise 3. Let It Go 4. Swinging 5. Slow 6. Slack Motherfucker 7. Binding 8. Down the Hall 9. Half a Life 10. Not Tomorrow

Bruised Lung. InchNo Hope.Inch InchCare Less.Inch InchClimb the Walls.Inch InchEverybody Dies.Inch Scanning the tracklist of Songs in the Key of Yikes, one is given to wonder Is Superchunk okay? In a world that's arguably darker than the one that greeted Wild Loneliness in 2022 or What a Time to Be Alive in 2018, are any of us okay? InchIt's always been the case that everyone is going through something that you may not be aware of,Inch notes Mac McCaughan. InchThis is currently more true than ever-but also the case that we are all going through some things together. In the face of that, what good is art and where is happiness found? (Spoiler alert I don't know.)Inch In seeking an answer, Songs in the Key of Yikes unleashes a sound that is triumphant and bright in the darkness, Majesty Shredding in overdrive. Lead single InchIs It Making You Feel SomethingInch sets the tone early with the band-McCaughan, Laura Ballance, Jim Wilbur, and Laura King-building an anthem out of the potential for joy, diving into slop-polluted waters (Inchnow fakes are faking everything / that once made your poor heart singInch) and emerging with a pearl. InchNo HopeInch is similarly resilient, McCaughan's lyrics painting a crushing scene before entering it's titular refrain. He repeats the phrase nine times, pauses a beat, and transforms it's sentiment entirely, breaking the chant with the line Inchand here we are singing.Inch The lyric is sharp, at once a simple observation and a profound statement of being, the song's crushing nights and endless days no less so on it's account, but McCaughan's voice finds a certain sweetness in having endured, and continuing to do so. Paradoxically, the energy of Songs in the Key of Yikes borders on and sometimes spills into euphoria, as in InchStuck in a DreamInch which emerges like a mirage-born oasis between InchEverybody DiesInch and InchTrain on Fir

In March of 1999, Superchunk traveled to Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago to record the tracks that would become Come Pick Me Up. The addition of producer Jim O'Rourke allowed Superchunk to advance their sound with more experimentation, including horn and string accompaniments. Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, and Bob Weston provided the horn section (saxophone, trombone, and trumpet, respectively) while Fred Longberg-Holm and Suzanne Roberts contributed on cello and violin. InchIt was exciting to work in the big room downstairs at Electrical. For part of our visit we also slept there, in the dark except for lights on all the gear blinking. It snowed a ton the day we got there, and I didn't go outside for the first five or six days we were there,Inch Mac recalls. InchI read an interview where O'Rourke said we tried to make a two-month record in two weeks or something. I'm sure he's right - we never wanted to spend the time or money making records the 'proper' way, but I like how this record came out, and it has some of my favorite songs of ours on it.Inch Album Tracks 1. So Convinced 2. Hello Hawk 3. Cursed Mirror 4. 1000 Pounds 5. Good Dreams 6. Low Branches 7. Pink Clouds 8. Smarter Hearts 9. Honey Bee 10. June Showers 11. Pulled Muscle 12. Tiny Bombs 13. You Can Always Count on Me (In the Worst Way)