Appetizers & Leftovers

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Exclusive tracks by Okkervil River, Summer Hymns, Shearwater, Phosphorescent, and many others!

How can we begin to describe the delectable eclecticism found on i eat records’ “Appetizers & Leftovers” compilation? Well, here are some numbers: the disc logs in at a hearty 1 hour 17 1/2 minutes, and features 21 different bands. You’ll hear 44 different voices, 32 guitars, 15 basses, 13 drum sets, 8 pianos, 5 organs, 4 accordions, 3 synthesizers, 3 violins, 2 glockenspiels, 2 vibraphones, and a partridge in a pear tree. Well, maybe not, but you will find a banjo, a dulcimer, a euphonium, a horn-section, some drums that are so peculiar we don’t even know their technical name, a smorgasbord of other percussion, a telephone, and a private dancer... and that just covers (most of) the instrumentation! Oh, and it reached #3 at KVRX 91.7 FM in Austin (the national mailout begins the first week of December 2005).

In March 2005, i eat records released an EP by The Casting Couch. Later this year, you can expect new, full-length albums from i eat artists The Glass Family, Ethan Azarian, The Handsome Charlies, The Casting Couch, and Vetran (featuring Bren Mead from Masters of the Hemisphere) as well as an Orange Mothers greatest hits CD. All of these artists also contributed to “Appetizers & Leftovers.”

  
     

1. Vetran,
"Half Drunk" (stream)

2. The Casting Couch,
"Row Your Boat" (stream)

3. The Glass Family,
"Stop Dead In Your Tracks" (stream)

4. Ethan Azarian,
"Mexico" (stream)

5. Orange Mothers,
"Kids (Don't Know)"(stream)

6. Okkervil River,
"Nancy" (stream)

7. Hitchhike,
"Genevieve"

8. Phosphorescent,
"Sunday Morning Coming Down" (stream)

9. Fluffers Union,
"Hungarian Death March"

10. Fine Fifteen,
"Dream"

11. Shearwater,
"Professor Nightmare" (stream)

12. Tom Banjo,
"Leatherwing Bat"

13. The Handsome Charlies,
"Makes Me Love You" (stream)

14. The Places,
"One Morning in May"

15. Thor

16. Summer Hymns,
"Stick and Leaf" (stream)

17. Murder Beach,
"Any Day (But the Day that it Happens)

18. Darling New Neighbors,
"Grocery"

19. I Love You and I Miss You,
"Leaving for Home"

20. Acadia,
"Return Flight, Window Seat"

21. Small Things Amplified,
"Tide"


 

    
     
 

"Each track is really a little gem unto itself...such eclectic and consistently good taste is laudable.
- Dave Gurney, Tiny Mix Tapes

"Make no mistake, the album’s modest titling almost deliberately shrouds the fact that hidden within lies an ambitious 21-course aural feast . . ."
- Allen Y. Chen, Austinist.com

"A very promising 21-track introduction to I Eat Records, a local label specializing in eclectic, folk-flavored indie-pop from locals like Fluffers Union, Okkervil River, and the Glass Family. The Orange Mothers’ graying-templed anthem 'Kids (Don’t Know)' shares pick-hit status along with the Handsome Charlies’ horn-infused barroom rambler 'Makes Me Love You.' Solo Mother Ethan Azarian scores with the haunting “Mexico,” and his folk legend father Tom Banjo does the same with 'Leatherwing Bat.'"
- Greg Beets, The Austin Chronicle

 

 

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