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01. Speech With Animals
02. Grey Snake
03. The Clarion Way
04. Up My Sleeve
05. Camera
06. Lamplighter
07. The Criminal Mind
08. Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (L Cohen)
09. Me & You & Him
10. Legs On The Ladder
11. Dead Language
12. Twelve Rooms
Heavily inspired in theme by the writings of Raymond Carver, Twelve Rooms is essentially twelve different stories - some fiction, some not. Present here are songs about everything from a ghost looking for her lost daughter ("Grey Snake"), murder ("Camera", "The Criminal Mind"), fading love ("Me & You & Him") and non-communication ("Dead Language"), to a cover of Leonard Cohen’s "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy."
Twelve Rooms finds us once again working with Ted Cho behind the controls, and a brilliant job was done. This is easily our best sounding record to date. Guests on the record include Dave Max Crawford (Archer Prewitt's band, Poi Dog Pondering), Tim Rutili (Red Red Meat, Califone), Alison Chesley (Poi Dog Pondering), Frank Orrall (Poi Dog Pondering), and, of course, Ted Cho.
A limited special-edition release of the record is in the works and will feature a handmade package with completely different artwork and possibly even a couple of extra songs.
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01. The Sediment
02. The Wasp
03. Walking Backwards
04. Girls On Bikes
05. Posthumous
06. Cedarland
07. Aim For Providence
08. To The Chicago Abyss
09. Good Morning, Nurse
10. The Awful Truth
11. Song About A Ghost
This is our first record in three years, and our first since
our big move from Austin, Texas to Chicago, Illinois. It's something of an accidental
concept record about the ghosts of our pasts and the many different forms they
take in our lives. This time around we took a much more minimal approach to the
recorded song than on The Long Wind Down, shooting instead for a more personal-sounding
record.
For Cedarland, we invited a number of different guest musicians to add
something to the songs that we knew we never could. Among these musicians were:
Evelyn Weston, who played musical saw; Dave Max Crawford (tour keyboardist for
The Sea And Cake) who played mellotron; Jonathan Meiburg (Okkervil River and Shearwater)
who played piano, banjo, wurlitzer, and accordion; Will R. Sheff (Okkervil River
and Shearwater) who played piano; Chad Gifford who played Violin; Jeff Carleton
who played Piano; and Jeff Hoskins who played drums.
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01. Long Arms ¹
02. The Occupant ¹
03. Man About Town ¹
04. Long Ride ¹
05. What I Meant To Say Was ¹
06. Endive ¹
07. Nobody Said Anything ²
08. The Awful Truth ²
09. Holly Grove ³
10. Touch The Magic Lantern ³
¹ Recorded specially for this release.
² Home demos for Cedarland. "Nobody Said Anything"
did not make it onto the album.
³ Rare tracks from 1997 recorded during The Long
Wind Down sessions. "Touch The Magic Lantern" is a re-recording
of a song from an earlier, out-of-print record of our's called "Caught By
A New Invention." The songs have never been released.
This is a collection of rare and unreleased Palaxy Tracks
songs that Insound is releasing
as a part of their Tour Support Series. Here you will find a few demos for Cedarland,
a handful of previously unreleased tracks, as well as some songs recorded specially
for this collection. "Long Ride" is a Shearwater
song. "What I Meant To Say Was" was written by our new drummer Ben Kane.
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01. We Go Way Back
02. I'm Swimming
03. If I Were A Julie London
04. A Million Things To Do
05. This Is The World
06. Malory Is Dead
07. The Golden Days
08. Maxwell's Army
09. The Family Tree
10. The Fountainhead
11. Me And The Weather
12. From "Royals"
13. Cats For Drowning
This is our very first proper record. It was recorded over
the course of one year in a tiny, dank little "studio" in Austin, Texas.
The title "The Long Wind Down" is actually something of a reference
to the act of recording a problematic record and the toll it can take on those
involved.
The original digipak version is out of stock having been replaced by a slightly
redesigned jewel case version with, get this, lyrics included!
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01. Dooms U.K. - Spelunker Cave
02. Macha - Light the Chinese Flower
03. Sounds of Soviet Lightning - Johnny Lion
04. Explosions in the Sky - Remember Me as a Time of Day
05. The Futants - Thinking Giants
06. Middle Finger - Freudian Cock
07. Mariachi Estrella - Chango Wongo
08. Woozy Helmet - Whistle Happy
09. Mazarin - Wheats
10. The Swells - When the Light Goes Out
11. L'Uisine - Glitch
12. Spaceheads - Fall of the Machine Empire
13. Blue Noise Band - Visitor ll
14. Cinders - Fast Clouds, Slow Moon (intro), Sad Music for Sad Russian People
15. Palaxy Tracks - The Golden Days
16. The Barbers - Tens and Twenties
Every year, Austin's premiere college radio station, KVRX,
puts out a compilation of live recordings made in their studios during on-air
sessions.
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01. The Family Tree
02. If I Were A Julie London
It was during the recording of The Long Wind Down
that we had agreed to release the record on Grey Flat Records. We were all anxious
to get it out, but it was taking much longer than it should have taken, so we
released two early, alternate mixes of "The Family Tree" and "If
I Were A Julie London" as this single. "The Family Tree" has since
become our least favorite song we've ever played, and "If I Were A Julie
London" one of our favorites.
Little known fact: "If I Were A Julie London" was actually written for
a side project Brandon and friend Greg Wallace (Palaxy Tracks' original vocalist)
had put together called The Julie Londons. The project quickly fell apart,
so the song was adopted by Palaxy Tracks.
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A baby blue talk bubble screen-printed on a soft, chocolate brown, 100% cotton Anvil tee. Sizes
left are large and x-large.
Printed by the fabulous Lo-fi With Love. No minimum order!
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This is Palaxy Tracks' very first t-shirt. A hand-written
"The Palaxy Tracks" is printed in red ink on a navy blue tee.
Printed by the fantastic Propaganda
of Chicago.
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This is a promotional poster for Twelve Rooms that is sent to record stores and used for tours and such. It's one-color (black) printed on 80# white. Run of 500.
Printed by the fantastic, INSANELY CHEAP Imprint.
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This is a promotional poster for Cedarland that's
sent out to clubs for tour dates and to record shops. It's a one-color (black)
print on 70# kraft paper stock. Very nice. Limited number printed.
Printed by the fantastic, INSANELY CHEAP Imprint.
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LATEST
REVIEWS
BigYawn.net
“This album is storytelling at its absolute finest.”
Prefix Mag
“Palaxy Tracks’ third full-length sees the band discovering the gas pedal while keeping everything bathed in the sepia tones of faded photographs.”
Resonance
“Expansive songwriting yields a richness of sound and feeling that culminates in the gorgeous eight-minute title track.”
Faces
“One wants to be eternally surrender to the attacks of pieces such as the meticously balanced “Grey Snake”…”
The Crutch
“Everything about this album is gorgeous and yet wrenching. The tracks are evocative of the feeling that occurs upon seeing an ex for the first time, post-breakup…”
Harp Magazine
“Although constructed in relatively basic fashion—only occasionally do instruments like a pump organ or a violin show up to augment the guitar-bass-drums setup—the sound this Chicago quartet generates is anything but simplistic.”
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THE
NAME - EXPLAINED
Ever wonder where we got the name Palaxy Tracks?
Well now you don't have to wonder anymore. Go
here for the full, completely uninteresting
story. It involves dinosaurs, the occult, and creationist theories.
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