DOT DASH - Earthquakes & Tidal Waves CD + FREE CD (NEW) (M)

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Like its three predecessors — Half-Remembered Dream (released in 2013), WinterGarden Light (2012), and spark>flame>ember>ash (2011) — the new album is released by us. Earthquakes & Tidal Waves is the label’s 31st release.

This time out the Washington D.C.-based Dot Dash travelled 300 miles south to Fidelitorium Studios just outside Winston-Salem, North Carolina where, with the legendary Mitch Easter producing, the 10-track Earthquakes & Tidal Waves was recorded.

Although perhaps best known for his production work on R.E.M.’s first three records, Chronic Town, Murmur, and Reckoning, plus the band’s original indie 7”, Easter — who added a guitar lead to Earthquakes & Tidal Waves’ album-opening “The Winter of Discontent” and played piano on album closer “Sleep, Sleep” — has been a pivotal figure in melodic, left-of-center, guitar-based music for nearly 35 years, both with his own band, Let’s Active, and as a producer of bands such as The dB’s, Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr., Wilco, Pavement, and Ride, to name just a few.

In addition to working with a new producer, Dot Dash’s Earthquakes & Tidal Waves also marks the entrance of Dot Dash’s newest member, lead guitarist Steve Hansgen, who began musical life in the early 1980s as a member of hardcore pioneers Minor Threat and, later, Government Issue. Hansgen’s authoritative, melodically astute playing helps make Earthquakes & Tidal Waves Dot Dash’s most focused, dynamic effort yet.

FEATURES

1-The Winter Of Discontent

2-Flowers

3-Rainclouds

4-Satellite (Far Out)

5-Tatters

6-Walls Closing In

7-Transparent

8-Thru The Dark

9-Semaphore

10-Sleep.Sleep

BONUS CDr

Live Rabid Session

1

Hands Of Time

 

2

Here's To The 'Ghosts Of The Past'

 

3

That Was Now, This Is Then

 

4

The Color And The Sound

 

5

Transparent Disguise

 

6

Winter Of Discontent

 

7

Bloom/Decay

 

Extras

8

Countdown (Demo)

 

9

Faraway (Demo)

 

10

Heyday (Cover Of The Sound)