IDEAOFNORTH

Peapod comp available free at Ferdinand’s Renegade Craft Fair booths in Brooklyn and San Francisco. All handmade with covers folded from a single sheet of 9×12 school paper.

Features tracks from all four of our newest releases and most of our 2007 releases, plus an amazing song from our friends Cougars Kill Cobras, who will be releasing an ep with us this fall, and an untitled track from the R2T2 project featuring members of The Baltic Sea and Honey Clouds, whose album will also be out this fall.

Download a .ZIP file of this entire compilation:
Peapod Recordings RCF 2008 [89mb]

Peapod Recordings + Ferdinand at Renegade Craft Fair 2008

Treasures By The Ounce [Dead End Armory - Hope You’re Good]
Oct. 3 [Hearts by Darts S/T]
Four Letter [The Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes]
The Ice and Snow Haunt Me Still [Brown Bird - The Bottom of the Sea]
Your Spanish Scarf [Dan Blakeslee - Lincoln Street Roughs]
Color Spills In [Honey Clouds - Earl Grey Demos]
Tripleplay [Nord Express - Loveland 1995 - 2005]
Colfax [Brown Bird - The Bottom of the Sea]
Prime [Hearts by Darts S/T]
Ribbon [Honey Clouds - Earl Grey Demos]
Dog [The Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes]
Slipping on the Wooden Overcoat [Dead End Armory - Hope You’re Good]
Ashes to Ashes [Cougars Kill Cobras - forthcoming ep]
Untitled [R2T2]
Carrie [Dan Blakeslee - Lincoln Street Roughs]
Off-Eyed Manx [Nathan Halverson - Nurse/Shark]

by mikael kennedy

I designed the packaging for the newest additions to Slumberland Records’ Searching for the Now series of split 7″s.
Letterpress printed by Diane from ferdinand in black inks slightly tinted to match the 7″ label colors. On colored vinyl.

Vol. 3
1. A Sunny Day In Glasgow
Sometimes I Think About You
mp3, edit
2. The Sunny Street
Pottery & Glass
mp3, edit

Vol. 4
1. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
Come Saturday
mp3, edit
2. Summer Cats
Let’s Go!
mp3, edit

Now Available from Peapod Recordings!

mp3s
Dog
Four Letter

The Hands of the Wrong People is the musical vehicle of Scotland-bred, Berlin-based visual artist Dominic Hislop, accompanied live and on album by drummer Robert Wiesner, and most recently by bassist Plus Fox live. They released 2 eps in Germany, and Spring Flakes is their first full length.
Dominic’s songs draw from such seemingly disparate genres such as 80s Scottish pop, 90s Chicago style post-rock and contemporary underground folk. Imagine the jazz-influenced rock of Karate mixed with the pseudo-Chic funk of Orange Juice and the pop jangle of early Aztec Camera, and you begin to get a sense of the sound of Spring Flakes. The album addresses relationships & politics in the same breath, becoming a subtle form of protest music performed on the deceptively traditional lineup of amplified acoustic guitar, drums & bass.

If you’re in or near Berlin, make sure to catch their CD release at West Germany on July 3, with Erste Stufe Haifisch and Getting Up Every Morning.

Mail order from Peapod Recordings! iTunes, eMusic and other digital outlets available soon!

Available from peapodrecordings.com, iTunes, eMusic, toneVENDOR and select record stores.

brown bird
bottom of the sea

brown bird’s sound ranges from simple sea-shanty style folk to complex counterpoints with an eastern european flavor. their influences of indie rock, classical music, and old american hymns rise and fall within their songs like whitecaps on a dark and stormy sea.

brown bird’s newest full-length, the bottom of the sea, is a collection of very old and brand new songs recorded in chronological order in February 2008. The album is more stripped-down and traditionally song oriented than the earlier releases, with beautiful vocals and instrumentation from fellow brown birds jeremy and jerusha, along with annie palmer and eliza blue.

Dave will be on an extensive national tour in support of the album this summer. Check their MySpace page for details.

“Frontman and songwriter David Lamb is like an ancient foundation peeking up through wild grass, deeply rooted but whipped raw by the elements.”
— Sam Pfeifle, Portland Phoenix

the ice and snow haunt me still

dead end armory
hope you’re good

Equal parts Texas-style indie rock and New England wintercore. The often cited comparison of Willie Nelson meets The Pixies is apt — Hartley’s southern croon recalls the legendary Texan’s heartfelt delivery, and the 4 piece rock band’s sound ranges from spare, solemn songs that bring to mind The Red House Painters, early Low, and of course, the Red Headed Stranger, to the cacophonous noise of Sister-era Sonic Youth or classic Crazy Horse.

“DEA combine fire and ice musicianship with unpredictable meter changes, sharp guitars, and mellow, haunting vocals to create one of the most interesting sounds in the downtown scene.”
— Bill Reese, Good Times

treasures by the ounce

hearts by darts
self-titled debut

Baltimore’s Hearts by Darts started as a recording project by Sei Petersen and Mike Evitts after the demise of their band Sharky. They began crafting songs from the ground up, drawing from a diverse range of influences including 60s soundtrack music, 80s shoegaze, 90s indie rock, and Julee Cruise’s lovely Twin Peaks songs. With the addition of Wendy Weihs’ understated vocal style and intriguing lyrics (often referencing mathematical rules and impossible, far away locales), Hearts by Darts have succeeded in crafting a dream pop landscape that is simultaneously springtime and atmosphere, comforting and strange.

prime

honey clouds
earl grey demos

“… i am definitely diggin their sound which is very reminiscent of early pavement, velvet underground, the fall, east river pipe, etc. i love the use of the jangly guitar, it always goes far with me. will definitely be reporting on these guys in the future.”
— Captain’s Dead

“The guitars alternately jangle a la early R.E.M. and crunch like Crazy Horse. Killer riffs abound. The new group’s exuberance is palpable …”
— Chris Busby, The Bollard

color spills in
spinning from tops

From “Hope You’re Good”, available in March 2008.