SPECIAL NOTICE FOR OUR REGULAR CUSTOMERS : IF YOU BUY ANY SEVEN TRACKS FROM 'FREAK SCENE' HERE ON BANDCAMP (from either the Frizz Records or Silver Panda stores), WE'LL SEND YOU THE REMAINING THREE SONGS FROM THE ALBUM, PLUS THE ALBUM ARTWORK FREE OF CHARGE IN THE FORMAT OF YOUR CHOICE. JUST DROP US A NOTE WHEN YOU BUY THE SEVENTH TO LET US KNOW!
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'Summer Babe' is the second of ten instalments of our debut album, entitled ‘Freak Scene’, which we're releasing song by song, one every two weeks over the next few months...
The album is a set of ‘weird covers’… The original versions were all recorded between ’88 & ’92, by bands that used guitar noise at the centre of their sound (call it grunge, art punk, indie rock, shoegaze, whatever) - Dinosaur Jr, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine… - and our versions strip away the dirt & the electricity, and reinvent what’s left with acoustic instruments, harmony voices, Latin percussion, jazz-inflected woodwinds… You’ll see…
The first single, a version of Dinosaur Jr.'s 'Freak Scene' featuring Maree Choie's velvety clarinet & skronking baritone sax, is available from a sidebar near you >>>
credits
released May 27, 2022
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MAREE CHOIE vocals, clarinets
MIKA MANN vocals
RAPHAEL MANN vocals, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, percussion, ukulele, kalimba, glockenspiel
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Written by Stephen Joseph Malkmus & Scott Kannberg
Produced & arranged by Raphael Mann
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Original version by Pavement, 1991 (single A-side)
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