Sic Alps Napa Asylum Rarity

1. Sic Alps Napa Asylum Rarity City

90Have you ever heard Pleasures & Treasures? In 2007, I was in a Philadelphia record store, sort of propped in front of the new releases like living wannabe-hip sculpture. A brick of CDs in one hand, maybe some thin LPs warming underneath my armpit, I had limited funds and unlimited wants, (we’ve all been there), so I was in the process of making sure I had what I wanted before redistributing my hard-earned wealth.

Pleasures & Treasures caught my attention: a simple, green rusty shitbox of a van seemingly abandoned, the band’s name, SIC ALPS, almost subtly scrawled in Krylon. 80During the lo-fi/shitgaze craze that crested a couple of years ago (and keeps chugging along now, albeit to lesser blog buzz), bands were coming out of the woodwork to unleash an avalanche of cassettes, 7-inches, CD-Rs, and even some old-fashioned “proper” albums on established labels.

Sic Alps Napa Asylum Rarity City

The energy and excitement of these recordings were the major draws, with groups pounding them out as if they had invented home recording, even rock ‘n’ roll itself. But while there was certainly an abundance of talented musicians — The Hospitals, Eat Skull, Psychedelic Horseshit — it was unclear what some of these groups would do beyond their two- to three-minute up-tempo rock tunes, if they’d do anything at all.

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8 (compilation)LPAlmost Ready Records2009U.S. EZLP/CDSiltbreeze2008A Long Way Around To A ShortcutCDAnimal Disguise Recordings2008'United'7'Important Records2008Fool's MagCassFolding2008'Description of the Harbor'12'EPAwesome Vistas2007'Strawberry Guillotine'7'Woodsist Records2007'Semi-Streets'7' EPSkulltones2006Pleasures & TreasuresLP/CDAnimal Disguise Recordings2006Hip Hop Shop Sweepers Vol.

1CD-R777was6662006Teenage AlpsCassEPAnimal Disguise Recordings2006The Soft Tour in Rough Form12'EPMt.St.Mtn2006'Four Virgins'7'CITY2004'Semi-Streets'CassEPFolding2004.