Download: Beachwood Sparks, ‘Make it Together’ (from their forthcoming ‘lost’ album ‘Desert Skies’)
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Longtime bearers of the California cosmic country torch, Beachwood Sparks resurfaced last year with the sparkling album “The Tarnished Gold” – the band’s first release since their original Sub Pop heyday from 2000 to ’02. It turns out there was some pre-heyday magic that is only now seeing the light of day. Shelved at the time and now remastered, “Desert Skies” is the “lost” Beachwood Sparks album that will be released Nov. 26 via Natural Sound Records. Recorded with the original six-piece lineup of Brent Rademaker (bass/vocals), Chris Gunst (guitar/vocals), “Farmer Dave” Scher (lap steel/organ/vocals), Josh Schwartz (guitar/vocals), Pete “Sleigher” Kinne (percussion/vocals) and Tom Sanford (drums/vocals), “Desert Skies” is more rawboned than Beachwood Sparks’ ensuing recordings for Sub Pop, a snapshot of some do-it-yourselfers just getting started and doing things like Spaceland residencies. “Make It Together” sounds like it could have come out in the ’60s, ’70s, ’90s or yesterday.
||| Download: “Make It Together”
Photo by Yasamine June
[…] a hippie’s hair. At the center of the spinning wheel is singer-guitarist Brent Rademaker (Beachwood Sparks, the Tyde, Further), who last year began jamming with former Beachwood Sparks bandmate and drummer […]