Thursday, July 10, 2008

Portastatic set to release double disc rarities collection

Good news for Portastatic fans. The band (Mac McCaughan and friends) is gearing up to release a collection of covers, demos and other rarities as a 2-disc set. The collection is titled Some Small History and features songs that were released as b-sides, on 7" vinyl and on other releases. There are also seven previously unreleased tracks.

Some Small History will be released on September 9 on Merge Records. Check out our review and photos from Portastatic's recent show at Duke Gardens here.

Some Small History track list:

Disc 1:
  1. Starter
  2. Sandals With White Socks
  3. Oh My Sweet Carolina [Ryan Adams cover]
  4. Lousy Penpal *
  5. A Cunning Latch (acoustic) *
  6. Teenage Kicks [The Undertones cover]
  7. Too Trashed to Smoke *
  8. Skinny Glasses Girl
  9. Trajectory
  10. Power Supply
  11. Josephine [The Magnetic Fields cover]
  12. Race You Home
  13. Make You Up *
  14. Your Own Cloud
  15. Love Breaks Down [Prefab Sprout cover] *
  16. Portraits From Before the War
  17. Soft Fruit
  18. Easily Aroused
  19. Guessing
  20. Little Fern
  21. All I Need Is You [Sandy Denny & the Strawbs cover]
  22. You Love to Fail [The Magnetic Fields cover]
Disc 2:
  1. Some Small History
  2. San Andreas Crouch
  3. Not the Same
  4. And I Was Boy From School [Hot Chip cover]
  5. Spying on the Spys
  6. Weighted Raft
  7. Dragging a Crow
  8. Gray Robins
  9. I Wanna Know Girls (acoustic demo)
  10. Feel Better
  11. Useless Switch
  12. Had (full band) *
  13. Secret Session
  14. Tugboat [Galaxie 500 cover]
  15. Codes, Runes, Dunes
  16. Candy Cigarettes
  17. Firefly [American Music Club cover]
  18. La Pelicula
  19. Look, Honey, Peaches
  20. Replacement Parts *
  21. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [Bob Dylan cover]
* previously unreleased

Pre-order the album here.

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