Home - Seventeen

LP contains digital download coupon for free MP3s. One of the longest running, most enigmatic, and decidedly overlooked bands in the underground, the ever-evolving Brooklyn-via-Florida avant-rock combo Home released their seventeenth album--entitled, appropriately enough, Seventeen--in early 2010. Choogling their way through grand-scale cosmic terrain in a manner not unlike that of Oneida--albeit with a distinct pop element that the latter often lacks—it’s no surprise that the album will be handled by Kid and crew’s Jagjaguwar imprint.. Home converged in the Devils Isle WetLab Studio to record the skeleton tracks of Home XVII and then embarked on a leisurely summer of overdubbery, during which they tackled the long-overdue task of digitizing and mastering their first eight albums which had dangerously oxidized in a Makers Mark wooden box for nearly 15 years. Somewhere in analyzing these early recordings, Home became re-interested in the sound of songs in their genesis: the (wholley) imperfect object that is felt but not yet processed; the carefully crafted uber-story abandoned for passing fancy; the MS-16 fullness for the red-line compression of a 4-track. When they reconvened, they sorted through some 60+ songs to file down to the "new" Home XVII, a scattershot sampling of moments and perspectives that somewhat awkwardly left archeological traces of cross-dressing and identity destruction. Pianist Eric Morrison and guitarist Andrew Deutsch met in a performing arts high school in South Florida and soon start collaborating on camcorder movies. The two rambled around various Floridian cities, moving from filmmaking to music. Eventually they landed in Tampa where they meet bassist Brad Truax and drummer Sean Martin and formally dubbed themselves Home (a nod to a fictional band in a soap opera they were writing). As the recordings started to pile up, they formed a label/collective called Screw Music Forever and began to offer $1 cassettes at local record stores. In a freak happenstance, one of these cassettes landed in the lap of a Relativity Records A&R man, who soon rolled up smoking large cigars and offering money for Home IX. After Home IX, Sean got a hold of some bad shellfish and disappeared for 10 years. Home carried on, making six more albums. Then, Sean reemerged, just as Brah Records befriended Home.

Tracks :
Hello From Texas
Worldwide Suicide
Sugarplum
What You Put Inside
Photographed With Ease
Wall Walker
Pop! Pop!
L-O-V-E
Loss, Any Way That You Go
Gladdy Glad
It’s Sticking
Easter Snow
Brainwaves
Walking Talking Slab Of Heaven
 

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