Captured Tracks

Alex Calder: Time [EP]

CD / Captured Tracks / 2013-03-19

Tracks: Suki and Me; Light Leave Your Eyes; Location; Time; Captivate; Fatal Delay; Lethargic
Artists: Alex Calder

Audio Mixer: Alex Calder.

Recording information: Montreal, Quebec.

Photographer: Ellery Lane.

Alex Calder's debut EP, Time, was recorded in his Montreal living room, with Calder p...continue...

Beach Fossils: Clash the Truth *

CD / Captured Tracks / 2013-02-19

Tracks: Clash the Truth; Generational Synthetic; Sleep Apnea; Careless; Modern Holiday; Taking Off; Shallow; Burn You Down; Birthday; In Vertigo; Brighter; Caustic Cross; Ascension; Crashed Out
Artists: Beach Fossils

Personnel: Tommy Gardner (drums).

Audio Mixers: Ben Greenberg; Dustin Payseur.

After recording the first Beach Fossils album in decidedly lo-fi fashion and mostly by himself, Dustin Pays...continue...

Widowspeak: Almanac *

CD / Captured Tracks / 2013-01-22

Tracks: Perennials; Dyed in the Wool; Dark Age, The; Thick as Thieves; Almanac; Ballad of the Golden Hour; Devil Knows; Sore Eyes; Locusts; Minnewaska; Spirit Is Willing; Storm King
Artists: Widowspeak

Personnel: Molly Hamilton (vocals, guitar, autoharp); Robert Earl Thomas (guitar, harmonium, keyboards); Kyle Clairmont Jacques (percussion); Willy Muse (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Kevin ...continue...

Naomi Punk: The Feeling

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-11-19

Tracks: Voodoo Trust; Spell, The; CLS + Death Junket; Trashworld; Burned Body; Gentle Movement Toward Sensual Liberation; Feeling, The; Eon of Love; Buzz, The
Artists: Naomi Punk

It's too bad that the term "post-grunge" was coined to describe the likes of Creed and Staind, who made grunge's brooding heaviness more conventional, because later bands such as Nü Sensae and es...continue...

The Soft Moon: Zeros *

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-10-30

Tracks: It Ends; Machines; Zeros; Insides; Remember the Future; Crush; Die Life; Lost Years; Want; sdnE tI
Artists: The Soft Moon

Audio Mixer: Monte Vallier.

Fittingly released near Halloween, the Soft Moon's second album, Zeros, maintains the darkness of Luis Vasquez's first album and the Total Decay EP, but also reveals...continue...

Mac DeMarco: 2

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-10-16

Tracks: Cooking Up Something Good; Dreamin'; Freaking Out the Neighborhood; Annie; Ode To Viceroy; Robson Girl; Stars Keep On Calling My Name, The; My Kind of Woman; Boe Zaah; Sherrill; Still Together
Artists: Mac DeMarco

Audio Mixer: Mac DeMarco.

Recording information: Jizz Jazz Studios (06/2012).

Photographer: Joe McMurray.

Vancouver, British Columbia weirdo Mac DeMarco appeared under his own nam...continue...

Chris Cohen: Overgrown Path

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Monad; Solitude; Caller No. 99; Rollercoaster Rider; Heart Beat; Optimist High; Inside a Seashell; Don't Look Today; Open Theme
Artists: Chris Cohen

Recording information: Bennington, VT (2010-2012); South Pasadena, CA (2010-2012).

Photographer: Wilson Alwyn Bentley.

Though Chris Cohen's name might not ring any bells for a lot of peo...continue...

Wild Nothing: Nocturne

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Shadow; Midnight Song; Nocturne; Through the Grass; Only Heather; This Chain Won't Break; Disappear Always; Paradise; Counting Days; Blue Dress, The; Rheya
Artists: Wild Nothing

Audio Mixers: Jack Tatum; Nicolas Vernhes.

Recording information: Rare Book Room Studios, Brooklyn, NY.

Photographer: Shawn Brackbill.

Wild Nothing's excellent debut album Gemini ...continue...

Dignan Porch: Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-08-14

Tracks: Picking Up Dust; Sad Shape; She Is Landing; Darkness; TV Shows; Pink Oil; Sleep with the Dead; Never; Sixteen Hits; And Are Now Not; Cancelled TV Shows; Interlude; You Win, You Win
Artists: Dignan Porch

Personnel: Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar); Hayley Akins (vocals, keyboards); Sam Walsh (guitar); Stephen Keane (drums).

Recording information: Sound Savers Studio.

Dignan Porch tiptoe a few ...continue...

Heavenly Beat: Talent

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-07-24

Tracks: Lust; Messiah; Faithless; Tolerance; Elite; Talent; Hurting; Tradition; Presence; Influence; Consensual
Artists: Heavenly Beat

Audio Mixer: Heavenly Beat.

If you come to John Pena's project Heavenly Beat expecting a certain reverb-heavy sound thanks to his membership in Beach Fossils, you might be surprised that he owe...continue...

Holograms (Sweden): Holograms

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-07-10

Tracks: Monolith; Chasing My Mind; Orpheo; Memories of Sweat; Transform; Apostate; ABC City; Stress; Astray; Tower, A; Fever; You Are Ancient (Sweden's Pride)
Artists: Holograms (Sweden)

Personnel: Anton Spetze (vocals, guitar); Andreas Lagerström (vocals); Filip Spetze (synthesizer); Anton Strandberg (drums).

Recording information: The Dust Ward Studio.

Sweden's Ho...continue...

DIIV: Oshin

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-06-26

Tracks: (Druun); Past Lives; Human; Air Conditioning; How Long Have You Known?; Wait; Earthboy; (Druun, Pt. 2); Follow; Sometime; Oshin (Subsume); Doused; Home
Artists: DIIV

Audio Mixer: Daniel James Schlett.

Illustrator: Simeonie Kopapik.

Photographer: Sandy Kim.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there was a high tide of bittersweet, beach-inspired ...continue...

Cleaners from Venus: The Cleaners from Venus, Vol. 1 [Box]

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-04-21

Tracks: Swinging London; Blue Wave, A; 3 Union Lads; Helpless; Winter in the Country; Modern TV; Kool of the Night; Trevor Rutter Experience, The; Marathon; Personal Issue, A; Marathon (2); Urban Jungle; Min...
Artists: Cleaners from Venus

Liner Note Author: Martin Newell.

Recording information: Marvy Mono (07/1982-11/1982); Marvy Mono (11/1980-04/1981).

This three-disc set collects the first three albums -- Blow Away Your...continue...

Medicine: Shot Forth Self Living [Digipak]

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-04-21

Tracks: One More; Aruca; Defective; Short Happy Life, A; 5ive; Sweet Explosion; Queen of Tension; Miss Drugstore; Christmas Song; World Hello; Time Baby 2; Onion Flower; Powder, The; Lime Sicks; Wrought; Gum...
Artists: Medicine

Medicine: Beth Thompson (vocals), Brad Laner (vocals, guitar, piano, percussion), Jim Putnam (guitar), Eddie Ruscha (bass, tapes), Jim Goodall (drums).

Additional personnel: Sneaky Pete Kleinow...continue...

Medicine: The Buried Life [Digipak]

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-04-21

Tracks: Pink, The; Babydoll; Slut; She Knows Everything; Something Goes Wrong; Never Click; Fried Awake; Beneath the Sands; Emmeline; I Hear; Live It Down; Earth Is Soft and White, The; Time Baby VDP; Live I...
Artists: Medicine

Medicine: Beth Thompson (vocals, sound effects); Brad Laner (guitars, vocals, piano, noise); Jim Goodall (drums, tape recorder).

Additional personnel: Van Dyke Parks (piano); He Goak (bass)....continue...

Mac DeMarco: Rock and Roll Night Club

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-03-27

Tracks: Rock and Roll Night Club; 96.7 the Pipe; Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans; One More Tear to Cry; European Vegas; 106.2 Breeze FM; She's Really All I Need; Moving Like Mike; Me and Jon, Hanging On; I'm a Man...
Artists: Mac DeMarco

Recording information: Jizz Jazz Studios (2011).

Mac DeMarco is a hard one to pin down. Before switching to his given name for Rock and Roll Night Club, DeMarco existed as cassette-issuing Make...continue...

Thieves Like Us (France): Bleed Bleed Bleed

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-03-20

Tracks: Bleed Bleed Bleed, Pt. 1; Stay Blue; Still Life; Fatima; Killing Revelation; Bleed Bleed Bleed, Pt. 2; Maria Marie; Memory Song; Your Love Runs Still; Worthy to Me
Artists: Thieves Like Us (France)

Personnel: Andy Grier (vocals, guitar); Martine Duverglas (vocals); Björn Berglund (synthesizer); Pontus Berghe (drums, percussion).

Recording information: Berlin (2011); Paris (2011).
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Half String: Maps for Sleep 1991-1994

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-03-20

Tracks: Eclipse; Maps for Sleep; Arc-Fold; Pelican; Slow Engine Kill Over; Oval; Sun Less Sea; Hue; Evergreen; Quiet Like Seeds; Slipknot; Brief as Photographs; *; Landscape Burning; Tripped Up Breathing; Sa...
Artists: Half String

Personnel: Brandon Capps (vocals, guitar); Matt Kruse (guitar); Kimber Lanning (drums).

Liner Note Author: Jack Rabid.

Recording information: Beautiful Noise Festival (04/30/1993); The G...continue...

Jesse Ruins: Dream Analysis

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-03-20

Tracks: Dream Analysis; Inner Ambient; Lust & Fame; I Knew It; Shatter the Jewel; Sofija; Bookshelf Sinks Into the Sand, A; In Icarus
Artists: Jesse Ruins

Photographer: Derek Vincent.

Before signing to Captured Tracks in December 2011, Tokyo-based electronic duo Jesse Ruins perpetuated an air of mystery, but the secret's been out ever since... so...continue...

Deardarkhead: Oceanside: 1991-1993 *

CD / Captured Tracks / 2012-02-14

Tracks: Fish; Auburn; One of a Kind; Lighthouse; Surf's Up; Crystallize; Oceanside; Enough; Just for You; Rollercoaster; Invisible; June 28th; Strobelight; Little Marinara
Artists: Deardarkhead

Personnel: Michael Craig Amper (vocals); Kevin Harrington, Kurt Douglas (guitar); Blakely Parent (bass guitar); Robert Weiss (drums).

Liner Note Authors: Bob Portella; Tim Hinley.

Record...continue...

Should: A Folding Sieve

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-12-06

Artists: Should

A re-release of Should's seminal 1995 release of A Folding Sieve, the 2002 update adds seven tracks to the critically acclaimed original and expands upon the obscure grandeur surrounding this sadly fo...continue...

Deardarkhead: Oceanside: 1991-1993 *

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-12-06

Tracks: Surf's Up; Crystallized; Oceanside; Enough; Just for You; Rollercoaster; Invisible; June 28th; Strobelight; Little Marinara; Fish; Auburn; One of a Kind; Lighthouse
Artists: Deardarkhead

One of the inaugural releases in Captured Tracks' Shoegaze Archives series, Oceanside: 1991-1993 captures cult favorite dream poppers Deardarkhead at a pivotal point in their history. Compiling 1991's...continue...

Blank Dogs: Land and Fixed

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Blank Dogs

Plenty of musicians look to the past for inspiration, but it's hard to imagine anyone who has willfully moved themselves back to the 1980s with as much determination as Mike Sniper, who also trades un...continue...

Dignan Porch: Tendrils

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Dignan Porch

Dignan Porch are a lo-fi pop quartet from London, although on their debut album Tendrils you might not think there are actually four people playing most of the time. In the grand tradition of bedroom ...continue...

Beach Fossils: Beach Fossils

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Beach Fossils

In 2010, there were a lot of bands doing roughly the same thing as Beach Fossils. Namely, a lo-fi take on the indie pop sound with loads of reverb, guitar parts reminiscent of surf music, simple-to-ru...continue...

Aias: A La Piscina

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Aias

Like the environs of their native Barcelona, the music of Spanish noise popsters Aias is bright, warm, and breezy. On full-length debut A la Piscina, the trio members build on the foundation set by th...continue...

Hanoi Janes: Year of Panic *

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Hanoi Janes

In case you ever wondered what became of all those kids knocking out ragged but sweet pop songs on their four-track cassette machines in an age when digital technology has rendered them obsolete, Oliv...continue...

Thee Oh Sees: Dog Poison

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Thee Oh Sees

Widowspeak: Widowspeak

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Widowspeak

Widowspeak may be a trio from Brooklyn, but on their self-titled debut record they sound more like the results of a dark Southern California night spent conjuring up the spirit of Mazzy Star. A creepi...continue...

Soft Metals: Soft Metals

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Soft Metals

The Beets: Spit In the Face of People Who Don't Want To Be Cool LP

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: The Beets

On one level, the Beets clearly mean the title of their debut album, Spit in the Face of People Who Don't Want to Be Cool, to be some sort of a joke (especially given the cryptic humor of their cartoo...continue...

The Beets: Stay Home

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: The Beets

The Beets' music suggests the Ramones playing with Beat Happening's chops and equipment, which is to say, their songs are good in a simple, willfully primitive way, and that they play in such a manner...continue...

Wild Nothing: Golden Haze

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Wild Nothing

Blank Dogs: Collected By Itself 2006-2009

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Blank Dogs

Beach Fossils: What a Pleasure

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Beach Fossils

Coming half a year after Beach Fossils' debut album, this seven-song EP sounds like a placeholder made up of songs almost good enough to have been on the record but didn't quite make the cut. That doe...continue...

Minks: By the Hedge

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Minks

Minks' singles hinted they were onto something special with their moody brand of pop, but they truly come into their own on By the Hedge. Early descriptions of Minks called them "goth-pop"; while shad...continue...

Tim Cohen (Fresh & Onlys): Tim Cohen's Magic Tricks

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Tim Cohen (Fresh & Onlys)

The Soft Moon: The Soft Moon

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: The Soft Moon

The dead-of-night eeriness of the Soft Moon's singles suggested Luis Vasquez was the dark horse in the Captured Tracks stable, and this self-titled full-length confirms it. Vasquez's whispery vocals, ...continue...

Wild Nothing: Gemini

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-15

Artists: Wild Nothing

If Wild Nothing's debut album, Gemini, consisted of nothing more that the song "Summer Holiday" and 25 minutes of a dial tone, it would still be one of the best records to come out of the lo-fi, rever...continue...

The Soft Moon: Total Decay

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-01

Artists: The Soft Moon

Luis Vasquez already seemed pretty comfortable with the dark side of his music on the Soft Moon's self-titled debut album, but he dives even deeper into it on the Total Decay EP. It may be only four s...continue...

Blouse: Blouse

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-01

Artists: Blouse

On their self-titled Captured Tracks debut, Portland's Blouse serve up electronic pop that's equally sparkling and dark, yet considerably lighter-feeling than the label's usual fare. However, this dis...continue...

The Soft Moon: Total Decay

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-11-01

Tracks: Repetition; Alive; Total Decay; Visions
Artists: The Soft Moon

Luis Vasquez already seemed pretty comfortable with the dark side of his music on the Soft Moon's self-titled debut album, but he dives even deeper into it on the Total Decay EP. It may be only four s...continue...

Blank Dogs: Land and Fixed

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-07-05

Tracks: Goes By; Collides; Longlights; Northern Islands; Insides; Blurred Tonight; Languages; Elevens; Out the Door; All Around; Through the Wall; Treeline
Artists: Blank Dogs

Plenty of musicians look to the past for inspiration, but it's hard to imagine anyone who has willfully moved themselves back to the 1980s with as much determination as Mike Sniper, who also trades un...continue...

The Beets: Stay Home [Digipak]

CD / Captured Tracks / 2011-01-25

Tracks: Cold Lips; Dead; Hens & Roosters; Watching T.V.; Pops N Me; Floating; Ear No Dick 2; Let It Dim; Knock On Wod; Just A Whim; Your Name Is On My Bones; Young Girl; Flight 14
Artists: The Beets

The Beets' music suggests the Ramones playing with Beat Happening's chops and equipment, which is to say, their songs are good in a simple, willfully primitive way, and that they play in such a manner...continue...