Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the week’s best new titles! The Left Banke, Strangers on a Train (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Omnivore brings The Left Banke’s 1978 reunion album – featuring Steve Martin Caro, Tom Finn, and George Cameron – to CD for the first time, and adds a previously unreleased 2001 session from Michael Brown, Caro, and Finn. Scott Schinder provides the liner notes, and Michael Graves has remastered the audio. The original Strangers on a Train album is a fascinating curio, presented…
A Fascination with Heights: Independent Project Records Relaunches with Expanded, Remastered Reissues
Independent Project Records, formed in 1980, helped launch the careers of bands such as Camper Van Beethoven and Savage Republic. Now, founder Bruce Licher of Savage Republic and partner Jeffrey Clark are relaunching IPR with a new campaign featuring remastered and expanded editions of the label’s back catalogue titles plus previously unreleased recordings from a variety of underground musicians. The IPR relaunch kicks into high gear in early 2021 with reissues from Half String (1996’s A Fascination with Heights), Bruce Licher’s band Scenic (1995’s Incident at Cima), and Jeffrey Clark’s band Shiva…




