new EP The Old Way by my band The Laughing Group

[marqueemoon]

Hey, OSG.

My band The Laughing Group has a new EP out today. This is our first to be recorded and mixed by yours truly. Drums and main guitar were tracked at our practice space, with bass, vocals, and other overdubs at my home studio which I've dubbed 101 Strings. It's good old fashioned 3 piece indie rock. If you like stuff like Nada Surf, The Soft Boys, and electric Elliott Smith you may dig it.

It's available now on Bandcamp, and the usual streaming places including Apple Music and Spotify.

Offset-wise the primary guitar for all tracks was my blue sparkle Rhoney Oceana Jr plugged straight into my At Mars Specialist. My vintage XII made an appearance on some overdubs. There’s a little sprinkle of JM, but the overdubs are mostly Tele and Strat with my Tech 21 Liverpool and Neunaber Iconoclast. I also used my Euthymia Crucible fuzz quite a bit on overdub guitars for its sparkly cleanup.

Acoustics were my 1949 00-17 on the more shimmery parts and my 1977 Takamine F312 on the chunkier ones. Our bass player's MIJ Squier series Jazz was recorded direct with a little compression on the way in and an SVT-style amp sim in the box.

I went down to Portland to master with Gus Elg at Sky Onion Mastering, and he did an excellent job of preserving the raw DIY-ness of the recording while taming some of the wooly stuff. Easily the best mastering experience I have ever had.

If you like it, share it with a friend. We're going to be spending as close to $0 as possible promoting it.

[BoringPostcards]

Outstanding! The main opening riff from Hand Me the Machete is fucking awesome.
Thanks for sharing.

Edit: on the second track now. Really reminds me of some friends from here who live in Nova Scotia now. They’re called The Disengagement. They did a few albums in the mid to late 2000s.

Third track now. Really digging this stuff. My wife says it reminds her of a lot of Canadian rock from the 90s.
I can hear the Nada Surf and other influences.
That Rhoney sounds excellent.

Anyhow, thanks again.

[marqueemoon]

Outstanding! The main opening riff from Hand Me the Machete is fucking awesome.
Thanks for sharing.

Edit: on the second track now. Really reminds me of some friends from here who live in Nova Scotia now. They’re called The Disengagement. They did a few albums in the mid to late 2000s.

Third track now. Really digging this stuff. My wife says it reminds her of a lot of Canadian rock from the 90s.
I can hear the Nada Surf and other influences.
That Rhoney sounds excellent.

Anyhow, thanks again.

Thanks! The riff on Hand Me The Machete is something that had been kicking around for literally years. Eventually I realized it wasn’t something I needed to sing over and that unlocked it for me.

We are close-ish to Canada, so maybe it’s rubbing off.

[cestlamort]

Cool. Excited to check it out!

[marqueemoon]

Added some streaming links to the OP. Thanks for listening.

[marqueemoon]

Just giving this a lil’ Friday bump.

If you’re Seattleish our release show is Sunday afternoon the 27th at Tim’s Tavern with The Burning Negatives and Guest Directors. We’re kicking off the festivities at 3pm and it’s all ages.