June of 44

[dthomas]

Someone gave me 'the anatomy of sharks' recently and it blew me away, really strong stuff. I'm quite gutted it took me this long to get into them. what's the feelings on this band, anything I should know?

[Ladt]

I've never heard of them. I they the next big thing or just another band I haven't heard of?

[dthomas]

they release on 1/4 stick, have connections/members? with the rachels/rodan?/shipping news possibly. good stretched out mixture of calm and noise, and have now split up after several records. thats about it.

[tinobeat]

June of 44 were a 1/4Stick band, now, at least to my knowledge, broken up or on extended hiatus (so yeah, broken up). they were alright.

their first album sounded like Slint (not like how mogwai "sounds like" Slint, which I don't buy, but seriously, it sounds like 'spiderland outtakes)

their second album sounded like Shellac

their third album finally started to sound like something of their own

their last album was really all them, soundwise.

I haven't heard that EP (anatomy of sharks).

the members are now involved with Shipping News (w/ Jason Noble from Rachel's), HiM, and maybe some others. Shipping News is a band seeking for direction, but I think they want it that way. HiM is some pretty great "dubby" rock (I use the quotation marks because everyone calls them that, and I can tell why, but I wouldn't call it "dub")

so yeah, June of 44 is dead, long live June of 44, footnote in the Louisville/Chicago "boat rock" history books.

[onedeadjet]

I had a friend who was totally obsessed with Jeff Mueller and everything he's ever done, Rodan through Shipping News, who drove some ungodly distance (which is just about anywhere from SD) to go see Trans Am. He apparently ran into Sebastian, Phil and Nathan at a bar afterwards and started talking to them. He claims that the Trans Am boys were dissing the whole lot as 'boat rock.' Having one party of his idols insult another apparently snapped something in him, and now he just wanders around singing Shellac's 'Prayer to God' over and over. This has been several years now.

That really wasn't important.

[tinobeat]

but a funny story.

I'll take Trans Am over the boat rock crew any day.

[onedeadjet]

The Interpol interview that PItchfork did a while back had a great bit where one of the Interpol boys related that 'Shadow Boogie' isn't jsut a studio fabrication - they play it live, albeit trigger-style. I don't know if it'd be really cool, or really odd to see that.