How Strange, Innocence

Reissue with etched fourth side. “How Strange, Innocence” was our first attempt at an album. We recorded it in January 2000 in Austin: recording took two days, mixing one day, mastering one day. Altogether we pressed 300 CD-R copies of this album…We had been a band about seven months when we recorded these songs. A lot of feelings (excitement/confusion/glimpses of visions/waking dreams/inability to play instruments) went into this record, but we didn’t quite know what to do with those feelings, none of us had even really been in a studio before, and it shows in the recording, the songs show it, too–it’s a young record
There are no tricks in it. There’s a lightness in a few of the songs that we probably won’t reach again. It sounds strange to say that instrumental songs are about something, but to us these songs were/are about such things as a couple walking through the park on a winter day, a child playing on 70’s shag carpet, the story of a boy hero leading a revolution against the tyranny of the coal mines. We’ve had a bit of a love/embarrassment relationship with the record. At certain points along the way several of us wanted to buy back all the copies and burn them. Listening now to this album, it almost seems like a different band composed of four different people. We finally feel okay in re-releasing it, probably because we’ve now made a couple of records that are recorded better and that are closer to our visions for them. Anyway, we truly appreciate anyone who is interested and listening. Thank you