Feb. 13, 2012 marks the eight year anniversary since Vale and Year Create A Perfect History was released. Greg Cislon and myself entered the former H-Hour studio, home to Modey Lemon's recordings, and set about making our debut record. After two or three days trying to figure out the boards and patching, recording commenced. Each song was written and recorded by Greg and I in the studio, learning how to engineer with a 16-track 1" tape machine as we went. A lot of the record was room-mic'd with a some closer mics on amps, if memory serves. It was probably the most fun I have had in the studio and hasn't been matched since.
I believe we sold about 200 of these albums and it has been long out of print. A handful of copies may exist at Desolation Row. Outside of a very small stock, the album is gone. Packaging consisted of a four-side cardboard digipack, spray-painted by Greg in four separate colors in a simple rectangle on all four sides. In addition to the CD, mini-lyric cards were printed and cut, along with a student drawing of a shark. Jason Kirker was the only album guest, sitting in on background vocals on "Her Future Awaits". I posted that song below.
Press-wise, the album was well received by Justin Hopper for City Paper and Ed Masley in Post-Gazette, both of whom supported us greatly. Thank you.
Anyway, check out the press scans to see my first beard. Maybe we'll do something for the 10-yr...
