Superchunk's new album, Songs in the Key of Yikes, is out now!

The new Superchunk album is here, and – no surprise – it rocks. I interviewed singer/guitarist/songwriter Mac MacCaughan way back in 2009 [Tape Op #76], in Seattle as they prepared to play the Bumbershoot festival. It was great to meet Mac and Laura Ballance (bass), as they are also the founders of my fave label, indie stalwarts Merge Records. Songs in the Key of Yikes is their 13th studio album, and over the years they've worked with many of the folks we've talked to in Tape Op: Jim O'Rourke [Tape Op #16], Jerry Kee [Tape Op #145], John Plymale [Tape Op #152], Steve Albini [Tape Op #87], Beau Sorenson [Tape Op #148], Brian Paulson [Tape Op #78], and likely others I am forgetting.

New drummer, Laura King, fits into the band perfectly, replacing their longtime basher (and funny guy), Jon Wurster. The new album was recorded by Paul Voran and Eli Webb at Sonark in Chapel Hill, NC, mixed by Mike Montgomery at Candyland in Dayton, KY, (Steve Wethington assisted), and mastered by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering [Tape Op #86]. Did I mention it rocks? 

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