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.