SPLIT DON'T SPLIT
May 18 2009
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FROM THE PRESS DESK:

ATTACK IN BLACK/BABY EAGLE
SPLIT – YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS 002
AVAILABLE MAY 5TH, 2009

You’ve Changed Records 002, ‘SPLIT’ was born in the backseat of a Ford Econoline, somewhere near the Quebec - New Brunswick border. Some old tour van in summer. Some guys in bands. We were on our way home from the 3rd Annual Sappy Records Music Festival and we were inspired. The drive was long but the passions were high. We were full of fire and sunshine. We were hopped up on road snacks and ready. I’ll sing your songs if you sing mine. Let’s make a record, start a label. Why not?

The idea grew once the tape was rolling. We started with one song each, Attack in Black covering Baby Eagle, Baby Eagle covering and backed by Attack in Black. This became two, and finally a happy four.  Eight tracks in total, two sides of a vinyl LP. Our favourite songs of each other’s, ruthlessly manhandled, reinvented, knocked around and abused, cut into new shapes. Baby Eagle’s rickety folk songs polished and tuned. Attack in Black’s youthful anthems busted into shards and aged. Sounds like a good idea.

‘Split’ was recorded in Welland ON, in the Romano household. It’s all a blur, making this record and ‘Still Jimmie’ (YCR001), like one memory of people coming and going, making songs, making dinner, pot roast and coffee. Sleeping on a couch by the mixing board, sitting around the kitchen table singing. The Fall of 2008, like any moment, a split between the past and the future. This is the record we made.

Attack in Black recently released the double album Years (by one thousand fingertips) on DineAloneRecords and are on tour across the world. Baby Eagle is writing songs for a followup to 2007’s No Blues and touring with the Constantines.

Side A: Attack in Black covering Baby Eagle
1.    Some Things We Lose
2.    Half Moon on the City High
3.    Let Wander Your Restless Hearts
4.    Rainwater Blues
Side B: Baby Eagle covering Attack in Black
1.    Inches and Ages
2.    Leather Jacket
3.    Leaving Your Death in a Flowerbed
4.    Marriage
 

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