Bombs!Away, by Yellow Squares

Bombs!Away

by Yellow Squares

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Joe A McCann Love the Lo-Fi sound and this captures the true spirit of of the sound. Favorite track: The KMart Song.

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1.	Am I A Peanut Butter Soda? (free) 02:29		download
2.	The KMart Song (free) 04:06		download
3.	Oops, We Didn't Mean It (free) 02:28		download
4.	Mould pt i (free) 01:50		download
5.	Mould pt ii (free) 03:56		download
6.	the acoustic solo (free) 02:04	info	download
7.	Run And Hide (free) 04:16		download
8.	Socks (free) 04:33		download
9.	Pizza Shop (free) 02:05		download
10.	Purple Fun Day (free) 04:48		download
11.	Headstand (free) 05:23		download

about

After completing 'Yellow Squares Volume I,' we actually hankered down and put our chops to the semi-serious task of assembling an album.

where 'Volume I' was a flinging, flailing, 90-minute ode-by-irony to cheeseballs and poseurs everywhere--

and where the Grapefruit era to come later was us at our most focused (if that's saying much)-- twice or thrice rehearsing the numbers and repaving over outtakes so that we could put out decent cassettes--

Bombs!Away is the apt and ample culprit for the space between: the improvs are still occasionally jarring, while never capsizing (unlike on Volume I, though there it was deliberate), and if the rehearsed portions catch us being reverent, we're still not stern.

The album was partly inspired by a short story that I wrote, part of a serial called '42 Sponge St.' This episode took the same name as the album, and in it, protagonist Bill Amzik was getting the new Yellow Squares album by mail-order, so he invited his friend (a character based on a composite of John Devereaux, AKA slushyhut, and Kris) over to mosh around the house with him while listening to the record for the first time.

"Green" and "Orange" from 'Volume I' are mentioned in the story, as well as Bomb's closer "Headstand", which appeared in the narrative before we actually wrote the song belonging to title.

"Pizza Shop" evolved into "Tulips" in the Dave-era, with his collaboration on lyrics. Though "Pizza Shop" actually had its own lyrics, which were never used at all. The chorus was "A haircut in the pizza shop."

"Run And Hide" was written as an instrumental with that title; all parts but the main pattern were improvised here, then kept for the final, Dave-era version, for which I also later added the lyrics, as prompted by the title. The final vocal melody was also indeed ripped directly off a Detritus song: the rumors are true.

"Pizza Shop", "Run And Hide", and "Socks" are the only numbers on Bombs!Away to have parts written before recording. The rest are fully improvised.

Our earliest material to be catalogued in the A-Sides, Bombs!Away is on-mark but unhinged-- the best portrait of our youth that we have to offer.

credits

released December 20, 2011

andre.W as Robert Bonk- guitar
Kris Cullen as Buford Jenkins Leroy- drums

recorded at The Grapefruit on a GE tape deck, except the acoustic solo:
recorded at Lincoln's Beard on a Sanyo tape deck.

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