the black watch the end of when
Selling Points
• Debut release on Pop Culture Press Records, an offshoot of the former indie music magazine. • CD includes bonus best-of disc (included as a download with the vinyl version). • Upcoming touring in Fall 2013. • Liner notes by David Kilgour (The Clean). • John Andrew Fredrick’s new novel The King of Good Intentions was recently released via Verse Chorus Press, and is getting great reviews! • RIYL: The Cure, Deerhunter, The Beatles.
Media & Marketing
• Review in summer issue of The Big Takeover. • Service to music and media outlets.
Los Angeles band the black watch has released 17 records since 1988 and is, according to the equally venerable Trouser Press, “a national treasure of fuzzy-jangly-catchy super literate indie pop.” Joined since 2008 by ex-The Chills lead guitarist and singer Steven Schayer, the band has a live sound that the Austin Chronicle has called “VU meets Soft Boys madness.” Interestingly, founder John Andrew Fredrick has just published his second work of fiction, a novel about an indie rock band; it’s called The King of Good Intentions (Verse Chorus Press) and pre-orders and early Amazon sales have been nothing less than astonishing — the best VCP have enjoyed in 20 years in the business! Fredrick has been giving readings accompanied by solo acoustic shows in order to promote the novel, and a full-band tour is in the works for Fall 2013.
“John Andrew Fredrick, after a zillion albums, always has an uncanny knack for finding melody in the dissonance, chaos in the calm.” — AUSTIN CHRONICLE “With its sweet melodies and dreamy distortion, this LP is chock-full of wonderful tunes and harmonies that put one in mind of The Go-Betweens x My Bloody Valentine.” — DETROIT METRO TIMES “With a vocal prowess that rivals Robert Smith’s, John Andrew Fredrick writes the dreamiest pop songs this side of Kevin Shields.” — POPMATTERS Key Markets: Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, Portland, Eugene, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, Boston
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VINYL: CHX PCP 1 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 9/10/13 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT D
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John Andrew Fredrick: guitars, mellotron, vocals Steven Schayer: guitars, percussion, vocals Rick Woodard: drums, percussion Chris Rackard: bass Andrew Lynch: piano, trumpet, flugelhorn Scott Campbell: additional noises, guitar, keyboards, bass Track Listing: i don’t feel the same • meg • hardly nothing never ending • oh oh • sum • always honey • the end of when • of lovely surprises • the spare side • a pleasing dream/that’s you and me all over • unlistening CD Bonus Disc (and LP Download): how much about love • emily, are you sleeping • like in the movies • kinda sorta • on another plane (scott campbell remix) • come inside • quasi stellar radio source • williamsburg • innercity garden • all these shivers • tear the sky • the wrong people • caroline • christopher smart • whatever you need • the tennis playing poet roethke said
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“Blessed by all the familiar hallmarks (brainy romantic lyrics, folky dreampop leavened by searing fret buzz) and powered by uncommonly meaty arrangements and production … when will this band ever get what it deserves?” — MAGNET
Genre: Alt Rock Label: Pop Culture Press Records CD: CHX PCP 1 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 30
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