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Artist: Soft Tags
Album: Seafoam Green
Label: Local Cut
Playtime: 27:23 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/softtags
Rip date: 2009-09-07
Street date: 2009-09-08
Size: 39.16 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 190 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Really awesome shoegaze from portland!
"Soft Tags have been playing shows in Portland for just over a year and a
half and have been performing music that gets described by journalists as
'indie-beat' - a sound somewhere between college radio circa 1982 and London
1967.
Taking musical inspiration from dreams as well as frontman Richard Shirk's
uncanny ability to stumble upon bizarre events; he spent an atypical
childhood in the midwest where he lived in a haunted house and had 3 run-ins
with what is described in journals of the paranormal as a poltergeist. Three
years later outside of newton, iowa, he saw a UFO from about a hundred feet
away.
The band started when kitchen four-tracker Richard Shirk (vox, gtr) met
multi-instrumentalists Tim Yates and Paul Notley working on a film-shoot.
They began working out songs (starting with Who covers) and brought Yate's
university pal Gordon Nickel into the group on drums. Thomas Bradley Meyers
(gtr) joined Tags after the band saw and loved an exhibition of his paintings
at a local art gallery.
A true DIY collective, the band records, mixes, screenprints and manufactures
it's own work using mostly analog recording gear. The most recent record,
Seafoam Green EP (the fifth in a year and a year a half) was recorded for
$1.72.
Tags have been enjoying a growing cult audience and playing shows with likes
of The Prids, The Mint Chicks, Chikita Violenta (the best band in Mexico City
as well as Broken Social Scene associates) and psychedelic legends The Green
Pajamas. "
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01. Secret Shoppers pt. 2 ( 4:13)
02. Seafoam Green ( 3:59)
03. Catherine Sings ( 3:53)
04. Deathstar Is Ascendant ( 4:34)
05. Voices ( 4:27)
06. Tesla On The Beach (Instrumental) ( 6:17)
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