What do you do when your buddy no longer wants to make music? If you're Off Records you put out his CD! Goldcard is Charlie Campbell who used to be in Pond, a Portland band that had some bright moments. Here are tracks from sessions in studios, or at Quasi's house, or with Grandaddy, some recorded at home, and more. It all kind of ties together (miraculously) and Jeff Saltzman's mastering job (at Portland's Superdigital) must have been a task! If you like wacky records or any of the above- mentioned artists check this out. (www.offrecords.com)
Music Reviews | No. 36
Sometimes Up is the Only Direction
by Larry Crane
Classic-style indie rock recorded on 1" 16-track decks at Interval Music (Wow & Flutter's space in Milwaukie, OR) and at Type Foundry (a veritable institution in Portland). It has that basement-...