- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: My Dad Is Dead
Album: A New Clear Route
Label: Unhinged
Playtime: 49:15 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/mydadisdead
Rip date: 2009-11-16
Street date: 2009-10-26
Size: 61.05 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 164 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Formed by drummer Mark Edwards in August 1984 after the break-up of the
Cleveland band Riot Architecture, My Dad Is Dead has remained his solo
project -- with occasional help from a revolving-door cast. Edwards learned
to play guitar during late 1984, and played his first show the following year
with a backing band consisting of a drum machine. He recorded his first LP
And He's Not Gonna Take It Anymore at a friend's home studio, and released it
in May 1986 on St. Valentine Records. After a lengthy tour supporting Modern
English and then the Butthole Surfers, he released Peace, Love and Murder in
May 1987. Edwards signed a contract with Homestead Records early the
following year, and released Let's Skip the Details in May 1988. Soon after,
he added the first bandmembers to My Dad Is Dead: bassist Jeff Curtis and
drummer John McEntire (later to gain fame in Tortoise). The Best Defense, an
album of material from the previous album's sessions, was released on
Homestead in December 1988.
With McEntire gone on to Bastro and Curtis unwilling to tour, Edwards
recruited the Prisonshake rhythm section -- Chris Burgess on bass and Scott
Pickering on drums -- for a 1989 tour of Europe. The group's fifth album, a
1989 double-LP titled The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get, was its last
for Homestead. With yet another lineup (this time guitarists Tim Gilbride and
Doug Gillard plus Burgess on bass), My Dad Is Dead moved to Scat Records in
April 1990 for the Shine EP. The band's first album for Scat, Chopping Down
the Family Tree, was released in October 1991. Over two years later, Out of
Sight, Out of Mind also appeared on Scat, credited to MDID. Edwards and co.
moved to Trance Syndicate the following year, and released For Richer, For
Poorer in 1995.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Carolina Blue ( 3:31)
02. A New Clear Route ( 4:07)
03. Sometimes I Feel ( 4:12)
04. Old Friends ( 3:20)
05. Tribal Blood ( 3:46)
06. Indefensible ( 3:42)
07. The Rising Tide ( 4:35)
08. Manifest ( 5:35)
09. Walls ( 4:51)
10. Map in a Box ( 6:05)
11. Might Have Been ( 5:31)
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