The 2nd Volume followup to our successful Friends and Friends of Friends compilation. We've expanded the comp to a 2 disc affair this year to include more of our out of town friends. Its only $8.00 and comes in an eco friendly case with beautiful hand screenprinted art in 3 blues by Andrew Sloan. The bands on the comp are top notch and its been expertly mastered by our family at Forbesound.com
Buy it from us and we'll e mail you a download code where you can get the digital version free!
The Neighbors disc is made up entirely of bands from Tender Loving Empire's beloved hometown of Portland Oregon. From the sugary synth pop of Mega*Church to the breakbeatage of Boy Eats Drum Machine to the hushed hugeness of Inside Voices, the Neighbors disc features some acts who have broken into the national limelight (Starfucker,Lacktherof) and some who have only recently played their first show (Yeah Great Fine, Gratitillium)
The Pen Pals disc is largely made up of friends and encountereesfrom various TLE tours. We found the unmatchable Tune-Yards stomping and strumming her yuke without amplification followinga visit from Boise’s finest. The beautiful “Beard” by Owls Go was recorded specifically for the comp after we heard them play it at a show in Baltimore, MD. Scene mainstays Kickball gave us a glimpse into a house party singalong in Olympia. The comp is hand silkscreened in 3 blues with art by Andrew Sloan.
The comp is on sale for $8.00 retail at selected Portland Retailers including:
Tender Loving Empire Store (NW 18th & Lovejoy, PDX), Backspace, (NW 5th & Davis) Half and Half (SW 10th & Ankeny) World Cup Coffe (Powells Location and NW18th & Glisan) Breeze Block (NE Burnside & 19th)
Neighbors (Portland, OR)
1. World's Greatest Ghost's - Butterscotch Sunday
2. Super XX Man - Medication (Podington Bear Premix)
3. Boy Eats Drum Machine - lalalalaLA!
4. Starfucker - Boy Toy
5. Gratitilium - Monkey Play
6. Yeah:Great:Fine - Manifest Destiny's Child
7. Nurses - Technicolor
8. The Woodlands - Summerland
9. Sam Cooper - Spiritual Billionaire
10. The Ocean Floor - What's On?
11. Dirty Mittens - The Small Things
12. MEGA*CHURCH - PRAISE*A*TRON
13. Autopilot Is For Lovers - Trust
14. Shoeshine Blue - All the Pretty Women
15. Reporter - Valin Seel
16. Inside Voices - So Mysterious
17. Y La Bamba - Chiquilla
18. Alan Singley + Pants Machine - Le Rain
19. Gingerbread Patriots - Mr. Persimmons
20. Typhoon - Affliction
21. Lackthereof - Ask Permission
22. St. Frankie Lee - Ballad of a Hole
23. Jared Mees & The Grown Children (Trampling Daisies (Dash! Premix)
Pen-Pals (Other than Portland)
1. tUnE-YArdS - News (Montreal, Quebec)
2. Halloween Swim Team - Inside/Out TV (Los Angeles, CA)
3. Finn Riggins - Mahoney (Boise, ID)
4. Small Sur - Sand Dollar (Baltimore, MD)
5. The Bicycles - What a Fool (Toronto, CA)
6. The Owls Go - Beard (Baltimore, MD)
7. Absolutely Parched - Backyard BBQ in 99º Heat
(Rancho Cucamonga. CA)
8. Raise High the Roofbeam - A Letter to Noelle (Chicago, IL)
9. Geographer - Rushing In, Rushing Out (San Francisco, CA)
10. The Fling - Out of My Head (Los Angeles, CA)
11. Gretchen Phillips - Burning Inside (Austin, TX)
12. Clara Clara - Dolphins (Lyon, France)
13. Massive Moth - Awaiting Thy Erotic Mercies (Salem, OR)
14. The Dont's - So Strung Out (San Francisco, CA)
15. The Mutineers - Nihlisteria (Santa Barbara, CA)
16. Test Audiences - Mazed Mr. Medicine (La Grande, OR)
17. Low Red Land - Landmark (San Francisco, CA)
18. Red River - Tomahawk (Long Beach, CA)
19. Starving Daughters - Impossible Things (Los Angeles, CA)
20. Kickball - My Friends (Olympia, WA)

