Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Sarah Jaffe - Even Born Again





















SBR-0019 features:

1. Even Born Again
2. Black Hoax Lie
3. Adeline
4. Under
5. Two Intangibles Can't Be Had
6. Backward/Forward

Thursday, May 1, 2008

The Cut Off - Packaged Up For Beginners






















SBR-00016 features:

1. Enjoy The Weather
2. Black Market Value
3. Need A Release
4. Waiting in the Dark
5. Luggage for Light Years
6. Pleased to Please You
7. Better Off Dead
8. Big House
9. Unarius
10. Shanghaied
11. Dull to Numb

An amazing leap forward from the boys who brought you The Rorschach E.P. Fine musicianship at work on this disc.
Produced by Salim Nourallah.
Review at the Dallas Observer.
Review at FW Weekly.
Purchase at CD Baby.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Sparrows - Snowflakes















1. All Time Low
2. All My Dreams Come True
3. Bee Nice
4. Am I Still Loaded
5. Snowflake
6. I Need to Hear a Quieter Song
7. My Beautiful Life
8. Sidereal
9. Moonlight
10. 2nd Hand Sunshine
11. The Dallas Curse
12. I Will Love You to the End of My Eternity
13. You're In My Dreams
14. Angel in Heat

The final album by the late, great Carter Albrecht's band. Sometimes called 5nowflake5.
Possibly the best SBR release of all. Every track a perfect, literate gem.
Called a masterpiece off the bat at Ghost of Blind Lemon.
Two five-star reviews and purchase at CD Baby.
One review at Amazon.

Monday, March 10, 2008

I Love Math - Getting To the Point Is Beside It






















1. Some Bridges Are for Burning
2. Only Clowns Are Scary
3. This Is Something I Might Miss
4. I've Seen Better Days
5. Josephine Street
6. The Shape of the Sun
7. Run Back Inside
8. Too Many Demons
9. Volcanic Ash
10 Some People Get Away
11. These Paper Walls
12. Better Days (Reprise)

(Released in conjunction with Glurp Records out of Seattle.)
Review at AMG.
Review by the lovely Catherine Cuellar at Pegasus News.
Purchase at Amazon.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Sorta - Little Bay















1. sink or swim
2. sweet little bay
3. bridges
4. song for birds
5. laugh out loud
6. starry-eyed
7. fallinlove
8. to Jenny
9. Christmas day
10. world at my feet
11. see the lite
12. tidalwave

Reviews and purchase at CD Baby.

Friday, February 15, 2008

The Happiness Factor - Critical Mess EP






















SBR-010 features:

1. Mr. Critic
2. Hurry Up
3. If You Could be the Star
4. I Liked You (for just about a minute)
5. I'd Rather Be Famous... And Suck

A fine EP by the band that features Salim Nourallah.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

I Love Math - I Love Math















SBR-009 features:

1. A Drive By the House of the Girl That Broke My Heart
2. Just Like Everyone
3. The Damage Needs Repair
4. On the Green
5. $100
6. Shave Yer Head
7. At the Track
8. The Radio's a Drag
9. Bus Stop
10. Amsterdam
11. No Long Goodbyes


The debut from the Dallas "supergroup" composed of members of the Deathray Davies and the drummer for the Old 97's.
One review at Amazon.
Purchase from CD Baby.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Sparrows - Rock And Roll Days















SBR-008 features:

1. Rockin'rocknroll
2. Visit Sunny Sodom
3. Digging Deeper Holes for the Future
4. Slip My Mind
5. You were Cryin'
6. (wound up tight, upside down, in a cage) Underwater with a timer
7. Placebo
8. Last night
9. Bring me the head of Jose Cuervo
10. Slave of Fashion
11. Freedom of the press
12. Things I need more of
13. Assassins
14. Rock and Roll Days

One of the true overlooked greats. Tracks three, nine, eleven and fourteen stand out.
Reviews and purchase at Amazon.
Purchase at CD Baby.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Sorta - Laugh Out Loud

















SBR-007
features:

1. crazy
2. paperweight eyes
3. look like a fool
4. tastes like...
5. outerspace
6. boobjob
7. chinese feet
8. long arm of the law
9. hospitals and sex
10. if i only had a gun
11. telescope

Sorta's MySpace page.
Info and review at CD Baby.

Friday, January 25, 2008

Todd Deatherage - Dream Upon a Fallen Star

1. Man of Me
2.Desperate
3.Too Late Now
4.Over You
5.Too Late Now
6.Over You
7.Lose Myself
8.My Payback
9.I Wouldn't Lie to You
10. Make It Thru
11.She's Leaving Me
12.>Walking in the Rain
13.Say the Things You Should

Purchase at CD Universe.
Reviews at Amazon.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Sunny Teriyaki Hamburger Breakfast




















The best anthology ever to come out of Dallas, SBR-005 features:

1. I Hate The Sun - Deathray Davies
2. Need You Badly - Happiness Factor
3. Freedom Of the Press - Sparrows
4. Holy Cross - Old 97's
5. Mariposa - Prescott Curlywolf
6. Alcohol Drip - Sorta
7. Stopping Me Is You - Todd Deatherage and Rhett Miller
8. Increasing Speed - Calvert
9. Its All Gone Wrong - Pennywhistle Park
10. Americana - Chomsky
11. Cruise Control - Hydroponic Sound Lab
12. Misanthrope - Jetty Webb
13. Pent Up Brunette - Fury III
14. Only A Mountain - Pleasant Grove
15. Sweet Thing Pine Bluff - Ranchero Brothers
16. Make It Thru - Todd Deatherage Band
17. Little Drops Of Summer - Li'l Cap'n Travis

Highlights include Holy Cross, Alcohol Drip, Stopping Me Is You, Freedom of the Press, Only a Mountain, and Mariposa.

Reviews and purchase at CD Baby.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Pennywhistle Park - The Build Up For the Big Let Down





















SBR-004 features:

1. It's All Gone Wrong
2. Oh, Bother
3. A Victim of Her Own Memory
4. Keep Me Down
5. "Man, it sounds just like pentatonic suicide," said Brandon Curtis
6. Dashboard
7. Not Yet Fully Realized
8. Never Knew
9. I Thought I Saw You Smile

Agreeable girl-pop.
Sadly unavailable.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

The Cut Off - The Rorscharch EP















1. adults we know
2. the basement theory
3. magdalene
4. hold me down
5. porcelain

Notes and purchase at CD Baby.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Happiness Factor - Self-Improvement?















SBR-001 features:

1. Self-improvement?
2. Facelift
3. Gonna Be a Rockstar
4. Lovable
5. I Want You but I Don't
6. I Don't Wanna Be Your Everything
7. Hold
8. Sucking Out My Faith
9. The Bastard Song
10. World of You
11. Baby for the Day
12. Rock 'n' Roll Pimp
13. Everything's a Lie

The debut of a terrific band featuring the awesome Salim Nourallah.
Reviews and purchase at CD Baby.