Portastatic, Slow Note From a Sinking Ship - 55m 27s

Tracks & Durations

1. When You Crashed	3:58
2. Skinny Glasses Girl	3:12
3. San Andreas	2:36
4. Taking You With Me	4:29
5. The Angels of Sleep	2:11
6. A Cunning Latch	4:09
7. Spooky	1:41
8. The Great Escape	3:25
9. Running Water	2:48
10. You Can't Win	3:35
11. Isn't That the Way?	1:09
12. On Our Hands	3:18
13. Pastime	3:03
14. In the Manner of Anne Frank	3:11
15. <extra track>	12:32

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Review

Mac McCaughan, founder of the North Carolina label Merge, takes a break from the melodic punk guitars of his better-known band, Superchunk, to brew a low-key batch of songs under an alias that salutes the static of the Portastudio four-track tape recorder. His second album of home and studio concoctions featuring mostly Mac (with friends like Helium's Ash Bowie and Superchunk's Jon Wurster), Slow Note from a Sinking Ship is a taste of the stuff McCaughan dreams up that falls outside the narrow stylistic realm of his main band. Much of Slow Note--notably "When You Crashed," "Running Water," and "A Cunning Latch"--is an unusual but not entirely unfamiliar clash of lazy lap steel, woozy acoustic strumming, new wave synth sounds, and postpunk guitar-effect washes. Mac impressively balances the looseness and immediacy of lo-fi with a fairly clean studio sound to make what he calls a "totally mid-fi" record. --Roni Sarig

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