The Notes & Scratches are back with a smart new batch of songs, having recorded their much anticipated follow up to 2005’s “Uh Oh” (Tense Forms). The yet-to-be-titled album was recorded in sessions throughout July and August 2007 with engineer/producer Matt DeWine at Pieholden Suite Sound Studios. These recordings mark the entrance of the newest member of the Notes family, Whitney Johnson (Dave Fischoff), who can really tear it up on the viola! Some of the new delights are available here to get a taste of the new record, coming in 2008!
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"Broken Social Scene’s manic party vibe is present, but their closest neighbor is the Arcade Fire, although singer Josh Dumas is a husky-throated Tom Waits-alike, not a Bowie/Byrne disciple. ...Taken all together it’s not so much high lonesome as lo-fi hopeful." -pulsetc.com
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"The Notes and Scratches' raspy, writerly country pop sounds like early Tom Waits channelling Ben Gibbard." -3hive
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"Highly recommended" -gorilla vs. bear
Hello all, hope to hear more of your new album soon. Glad you came to Detroit last year. Hope you can again. Trying to make a trip to Chicago to see you.
hey! there's more to life than one city! i don't care how faceted it is. get on the road and stop ignoring the southern cities ur pulling so much of your sound from. embrace it and i'm sure we will too. just thinking bout y'all.
Hey there. Just wanted to let you know that Too Much Rock posted up photos of your show on Monday January 28th, 2008 at The Empty Bottle in Chicago, IL with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, & The Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Black Apple.
Hurry the hell up Monday, we've all got a serious Notes & Scratches jones! Free show means more beer for me and all my friends. Jason, I'm going to pretend you are a fountain and throw pennies at you for good luck.
The new tunes are sounding great on the old world wide web. The next time you guys come down we should record on our new 24 track ipod mp3 blogging machine. I have a plug in that makes it sound "vintage" and it also receives text messages. can't wait to see ya! Robbie it's your turn to bring the eagle.
since we can't post our amazing ad of mushi <---, we're just going to say that we have a new album out on April 26 (www.svcrecords.co.uk) that benefits RAINN (www.rainn.org). I (Hiram)have been listening to the album a lot lately. What a wonderful piece of work. We miss you (is that weird?). Thanks for letting us pimp ourselves.
