Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Tape Club

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin are prolific songwriters despite only having released three albums in their 10-year history. In the summer of 2012, the band went through their archive of over 100 songs and picked out the cream of the crop for a truly unique double album that encapsulates the entire band's career.

Limited to 3,000 copies, Tape Club is a compilation of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's B-sides and demos in unreleased versions that range from polished studio recordings of the full band in action to rough solo takes on acoustic guitar. In the Midwestern indie pop group's downtime between 2002 and 2011, the trio (or sometimes quartet) recorded often. In fact, the 26 songs on the compilation were handpicked from over a hundred, hinting that they must have been of high caliber to have been considered. They are. Fans of the simple and true will appreciate "Spinning Sea" and "Let's Get Tired" from the early years, or the warm Shins and Deerhunter qualities of the "Phantomwise" and "Back in the Saddle" demos, which would later make it onto Let It Sway. Imperfections and all, the small basement or bedroom environments and accompanying tape hiss feel better suited to the band than the flashy sheen of its full-lengths. A chronological ordering gives a sense to the band's progress, a definite perk, but the big payoff with Tape Club is that it offers a chance to see through to the heart of SSLYBY's songs and realize how charming they can be without the big-league production.

1. The Clod and the Pebble

2. Let's Get Tired

3. What'll We Do [Demo]

4. Song W + Song L

5. Sweet Owl

6. Spinning Sea

7. Tin Floor

8. Lower the Gas Prices, Howard Johnson

9. Go Upstairs

10. Bigger Than Yr Yard

11. Half-Awake (Deb)

12. Not Worth Fighting

13. New Day

14. Coming Through

15. Dead Right [Wilmington demo]

16. We Can Win Missouri

17. Same Speed

18. Cardinal Rules

19. Chili Cook-Off

20. Song 1000

21. Phantomwise [Demo]

22. Back in the Saddle [Demo]

23. Yellow Missing Signs

24. Letter Divine

25. Bended

26. Bastard of Rome

Customer Reviews (4.00 Stars) 1 person(s) rated this product.

Pure fun posted on 11/01/2011 4 Stars Great indie sounds and just pure fun to listen to. I'm pretty conservative with 5 stars - this isn't one for the ages - but highly recommended

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