VA - I Eat Records: Appetizers & Leftovers
ARTIST.....: VA
TITLE......: I Eat Records: Appetizers & Leftovers
LABEL......: I Eat Records
URL........: www.ieatrecords.com
RIP DATE...: Mar-24-2006
STORE DATE.: 000-00-2005
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 102,7 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Vetran - Half Drunk 02:42
02 - The Casting Couch - Row Your Boat 02:47
03 - The Glass Family - Stop Dead In Your 03:51
Tracks
04 - Ethan Azarian - Mexico 03:53
05 - Orange Mothers - Kids (Don't Know) 03:19
06 - Okkervil River - Nancy 04:40
07 - Hitchhike - Genevieve 03:31
08 - Phosphorescent - Sunday Morning Coming 05:08
Down
09 - Fluffer's Union - Hungarian Death March 03:31
10 - Fine Fifteen - Dream 03:34
11 - Shearwater - Professor Nightmare 05:30
12 - Tom Banjo - Leatherwing Bat 02:41
13 - The Handsome Charlies - Makes Me Love You 02:38
14 - The Places - One Morning In May 03:40
15 - Thor - Untitled 02:47
16 - Summer Hymns - Stick And Leaf 03:42
17 - Murder Beach - Any Day 02:31
(But The Day That It Happens)
18 - Darling New Neighbors - Grocery 05:05
19 - I Love You & I Miss You - Leaving For Home 02:53
20 - Acadia - Return Flight, Window Seat 02:59
21 - Small Things Amplified - Tide 06:16
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77:38 min
Release Notes:
Exclusive tracks by Okkervil River, Summer Hymns, Shearwater,
Phosphorescent, and many others!
How can we begin to describe the delectable eclecticism found on i
eat records' "Appetizers & Leftoversö" compilation? Well, here are
some numbers: the disc logs in at a hearty 1 hour 17 1/2 minutes,
and features 21 different bands. You'll hear 44 different voices,
32 guitars, 15 basses, 13 drum sets, 8 pianos, 5 organs, 4
accordions, 3 synthesizers, 3 violins, 2 glockenspiels, 2
vibraphones, and a partridge in a pear tree. Well, maybe not, but
you will find a banjo, a dulcimer, a euphonium, a horn-section,
some drums that are so peculiar we don't even know their technical
name, a smorgasbord of other percussion, a telephone, and a
private dancer... and that just covers (most of) the
instrumentation! Oh, and it reached #3 at KVRX 91.7 FM in Austin
(the national mailout began the first week of December 2005).
In March 2005, i eat records released an EP by The Casting Couch.
In 2006, you can expect new, full-length albums from i eat artists
The Glass Family, Ethan Azarian, The Handsome Charlies, The
Casting Couch, and Vetran (featuring Bren Mead from Masters of the
Hemisphere) as well as an Orange Mothers greatest hits CD. All of
these artists also contributed to "Appetizers & Leftovers."
"Make no mistake, the album's modest titling almost deliberately
shrouds the fact that hidden within lies an ambitious 21-course
aural feast . . ."
- Allen Y. Chen, Austinist.com
"A very promising 21-track introduction to I Eat Records, a local
label specializing in eclectic, folk-flavored indie-pop from
locals like Fluffers Union, Okkervil River, and the Glass Family.
The Orange Mothers' graying-templed anthem 'Kids (Don't Know)'
shares pick-hit status along with the Handsome Charlies' horn-
infused barroom rambler 'Makes Me Love You.' Solo Mother Ethan
Azarian scores with the haunting "Mexico," and his folk legend
father Tom Banjo does the same with 'Leatherwing Bat.'"
- Greg Beets, The Austin Chronicle
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In a sea of indie labels, how does an upstart make itself known to
music fans of discriminating taste? One way to do it is to put
together a compilation of tracks from all the artists on your
germinal roster, as well as some other friendly folks kind enough
to contribute to a good cause. This is precisely what i eat
records, a fledgling label based in Austin, TX, has done with its
first release, the compilation Appetizers & Leftovers. Boasting 21
tracks from some artists local to Austin and others from away,
this album shows clearly that the label's interests lie with
simple pop and rock, with perhaps some folk and quirkiness thrown
in for good measure.
Picking favorites from among the 21 tracks is rather tough, as
each track is really a little gem unto itself. For one of the
established acts, Okkervil River contribute a characteristically
beautiful rendition of "Nancy," a gentle ballad penned by fellow
Austinite Ethan Azarian. Azarian himself does double duty with the
country-influenced "Mexico" under his own name and the goofier pop
rock of "Kids (Don't Know") with his band Orange Mothers. Also
throwing in on the pop rock side of things, Hitchhike's
"Genevieve" plays it stripped down and lets the simple beauty of
the song's melodies shine through (albeit with a brass assist in
the closing moments). Another more familiar name, Summer Hymns
offer an appropriately spacey and meditative plea for love and
understanding with "Stick and Leaf," which as good as it is,
leaves one thirsty for more.
But there really is a lot to choose from to please even the most
finicky listener, from the slightly off-kilter rock of Fluffers
Union's "Hungarian Death March" to the haunting folk of Tom
Banjo's "Leatherwing Bat." What's apparent is that i eat records
has some far-reaching interests at this early stage of its
development, and such eclectic and consistently good taste is
laudable. With at least four releases slated for the fall, the
label will likely be promoting some great acts that might
otherwise go unheard. This compilation is really just a little
teaser, more appetizer than leftover, to get the public hungry for
the main courses to be served up in the near future.
(tinymixtapes.com)