Bound Stems' The Family Afloat
01 Taking Tips from the Gallery Gang
02 Happens to Us All Otherwise
03 Passing Bell
04 The Palace Flophouse and Grill
05 Clear Water and Concrete
06 Cloak of Blue Sky
07 Only Clementine Knows
08 Winston
09 Crossed Off Together
10 Sugar City Magic
"The Family
Afloat" will be available July 11th, in 12-inch, and September 9th everywhere else. Handled exclusively and lovingly
by Flameshovel Records.
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Bound Stems is Bobby, Dan, Janie, Radz, and Evan, and it's been that way for a while now. In 2006, they released a record called Appreciation Night, and all of their families were proud, and their friends came out and stomped and clapped.
Then, rather gracefully, people who were neither family nor friends also cheered – enough to convince Bobby, Dan, Janie, Radz, and Evan to quit their jobs and pile into a van for a year.
As they rumbled from coast to coast, all of the usual things happened. They played for no one, and then the next night, they played for everyone. They acquired parking tickets in 4 time zones. They sweated and shouted and sang, until they were tired and hoarse and broke. They ate peanut butter and drank champagne. Once, they stood beside their broken van in the desert, and decided they could make it to Texas – isn't that just perfect?
But sure enough, surely enough, they each got about a year older.
The usual signs weren't there – not a set of tell-tale laugh lines or love handles, or law degrees. But when they unloaded the van and stretched out their legs and started playing again, well, hell. Somewhere out there they found the best part about growing up.
Bound Stems' new record is called The Family Afloat.
If you are running down a checklist, here are the highlights: intricate male and female vocals, harmonies stacked to the rafters, layers of gifted instrumentation, charged rhythms, and crafted songwriting. It sounds exactly how it should.
The first song is called Taking Tips from the Gallery Gang; it might be about seeing old friends. It might be about that moment where the old friends turn new again.
Passing Bell sounds like if Bound Stems covered a Bound Stems song. A crisp, back-to-school morning chorus falls knee deep in a dance party. After the show, you will know which one was Passing Bell.
The Palace Flophouse and Grill seems to emit a silvery speaker haze. You haven't called home in a while.
Bound Stems are touring this summer, toting The Family Afloat on vinyl. Well, vinyl with a catch: you have to ask for one, in person.
So come on, then!
Bound Stems will bring the rousing choruses and their fierce, loud hearts.
And you! The neighborhood grins – the real character kids.
Bound Stems' Appreciation Night, 2006
01 Appreciation Night
02 Andover
03 Western Biographic
04 Wake Up, Ma and Pa are Gone
05 At What Point Did You Stop Believing Me?
06 Pulling on Pigtails
07 Excellent News, Colonel
08 This Is Grand
09 Fire, Burglary, Flood
10 Risking Life and Limb for the Coupon
11 Book of Baby Names
12 Refuse the Refuse
13 Walter Waters Addresses the Bonus Army
14 Rented a Tent (A Tent! A Tent!)
15 55 Cross St.
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