Sunday, January 1, 2023

Album of the Week: These Are Good People

Welcome to the new and improved Record Club! Not only do things look different around here, but things are going to function slightly different as well. Tomorrow, you're going to receive an email asking you if you'd like to pick an album. That's the only correspondence you'll receive about it. There will be no limitations as to who can pick an album. First come first serve (for the most part—details TBD). Let's test out whether that gets more people involved, or fewer. Hopefully the former.

Anyways, happy New Year's everybody! Perhaps some of you are here to achieve your New Year's resolution of writing more. It's a sincerely good idea! I'm really excited for you! Check out this week's album, and then put the figurative pen to the figurative paper. It's gonna be a good year, y'all.

Record Club:

WEEK 205 — January 1-7, 2023


There Are Good People
by Little Big League

LISTEN:

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PICKED BY JOE

JOE'S COMMENTS: "Besides Japanese Breakfast being some good shit, I got a book club coming up where we're reading Crying in H Mart, so I wanted to explore some of Zauner's work prior to her main project. Also, Philly indie rock is usually reliable. Also also, the phrase 'these are good people' felt like a good description of Record Club to start us off in the new year."

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ALBUM DETAILS

GENRE: indie rock, emo, punk

RELEASED: August 6, 2013

LENGTH: 33:00

TRACKLIST:
  1. Lindsey
  2. My Very Own You
  3. Dark Matter
  4. Summer Wounds
  5. Brackish Water
  6. Sportswriting
  7. Settlers
  8. Tokyo Drift
  9. Never Have I Ever Walked Away When the Time Was Right
LYRICS: Genius.com

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ARTIST DETAILS

ABOUT: An indie rock band from Philly. Active from 2011-2014. Fronted by Michelle Zauner, now best known for her work as Japanese Breakfast. Little Big League went on hiatus in 2014, when Zauner's mom was diagnosed with cancer, and she had to move back home (read about this time period in her critically acclaimed memoir Crying in H Mart). The band got back together for a bit in 2016, but then Japanese Breakfast started to blow up, so they called it for good.

DISCOGRAPHY: This is their first of two LPs, after a 2012 self-titled EP. Their second and final LP, Tropical Jinx, was released in 2014.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

READING SOME SHIT: New Noise Magazine, 2013

WATCHING SOME SHIT: a music video for "My Very Own You"

PREVIOUSLY ON RECORD CLUB: These Are Good People was produced and mixed by a dude named Craig Hendrix. He would later become a member of Japanese Breakfast. In this interview, he talks about headlining tours where the openers were Mannequin Pussy, and then later, Snail Mail.

Little Big League also adds to our pantheon of sports-related music titles in Record Club. Previously, we've had Fastball, Free Throw, Johnny Football Hero, last week's A Philly Special Christmas, and I dunno, maybe Kick? (Bad news, though: Michelle Zauner threw out the first pitch for the Mets.) Also, this isn't the first "League," since we listened to Philly brethren Stereo League. 

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Happy listening, RC family!
Have a great week!
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