Portastatic Some Small History

• Starter
• Sandals With White Socks
• Oh My Sweet Carolina
• Lousy Penpal
• A Cunning Latch
• Teenage Kicks
• Too Trashed to Smoke
• Skinny Glasses Girl
• Trajectory
• Power Supply
• Josephine
• Race You Home mix
• Make You Up
• Your Own Cloud
• When Love Breaks Down
• Portraits From Before the War
• Soft Fruit
• Easily Aroused
• Guessing
• Little Fern
• All I Need Is You
• You Love To Fail
• Some Small History
• San Andreas Crouch
• Not The Same
• And I Was a Boy From School
• Spying on the Spys
• Weighted Raft
• Dragging A Crow
• Gray Robins
• I Wanna Know Girls (demo)
• Feel Better
• Useless Switch
• Had
• Secret Session
• Tugboat
• Codes, Runes, Dunes
• Candy Cigarettes
• Firefly
• La Pelicula
• Look, Honey, Peaches
• Replacement Parts
• It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

For a side project, Portastatic has amassed quite a back catalogue. Always the little brother to Mac McCaughan's other band, Superchunk, Portastatic has nonetheless become a revered entity in its own right over the years. McCaughan, who is also a guiding force behind Merge Records, is cleaning out closets with Some Small History, which is not small by any means. It's a two-CD, 44-track collection of rarities, covers, B-sides, EPs, compilation tracks, unreleased songs, and otherwise hard to track down ephemera. Included are Portastatic's takes on Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," Hot Chip's "And I Was a Boy from School," and Galaxie 500's "Tugboat."

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Band: http://www.portastatic.com

Label: http://www.mergerecords.com

Audio: http://www.myspace.com/portastatic 

Abstract by John Zeiss