Davey Dreamnation

DNRC037 | 2LP | 2004 | DELETED
After the relentless mood-rock of “96302″, Teh seemed to flounder for a moment in their new-found popularity, before well and truly cocking it up by releasing this piece of toenail wax. Recorded live, as the name suggests, inside their friend Hari’s light plane, the unspeakable ordinariness of this [...]

DNRC036 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
Despite the barnstorming success of their first single “Extra Hair”, Cruns made the ridiculous decision in 2004 to stop listening to their own music. This, their debut album, is the result. Composed of what could loosely be described as instructions for session musicians, “Bed Hair” was a disappointment [...]

DNRC035 | EP | 2004 | DELETED
Footpath continued their short spurt of releases in 1994 with the excellent and underrrated “Spartan, Militaristic” EP, during the recording of which they officially replaced former drummer Ramp Boy with the talented Jim Turkey, due to the former’s excessive hiccupping. This short EP, clocking in at just three minutes [...]

DNRC034 | LP | 2004 | DELETED
A resurrection of Davey’s fortunes failed to coincide with the release of this, his incendiary though widely ignored sophomore album, due probably to his decision not to release every track as a single in its own right, a tactic which made the world sit up and croak when he [...]

DNRC033 | LP| 2004 | DELETED
How fitting that DNRC’s first offering for 2004 should be a reissue, timed to coincide with the ten year anniversary of the release of Footpath’s megalithically-themed debut, “Gigantic and Pedantic”. You see kids, way back in 1994, when most of you were still in primary school, a different dinosaur [...]

DNRC032 | LP| 2003 | DELETED
DNRC’s final release for 2003 returned, fittingly, to the Middle Ages. Medieval superstar Mead, whose talents were first spotted by Davey Dreamnation whilst trolling through the Bourke St Mall in search of a new act to sign, is probably best known for his second album “The Mists of Thyme” [...]

DNRC031 | LP| 2003 | DELETED
Anyone who’s taken a texta into a public toilet cubicle and written the name of a fictitious band on the wall knows how suggestion, exclusion, elitism and superiority become powerful tools in the hands of the ignorant. Pachinko(o) was never a real band; this record does not exist; and [...]

DNRC030 | LP| 2003 | DELETED
As far as definite articles go, The Songs may well be The. Hailing from Canada by way of the Peace Bridge, Jess & Tuckey Song give it all, y’awl on possibly their finest album in almost sixty years. You’ll know each track on this erratically recorded masterstroke, from the [...]

DNRC029 | LP| 2003 | DELETED
After abandoning both their double-barreled former name (Pitchfork Media) and their lucrative online music review business, the guys and girls of Bitchfork took, to bastardise Neil Young, a turn for the middle of the road, after finding they weren’t wanted in the ditch. Which wasn’t so very surprising, as the [...]

DNRC028 | LP| 2003 | DELETED
Louisville, Kentucky’s Barbara Ride has lived for the last 10 years in New York City. She was one of DNRC’s first overseas artists, and this, her debut album, gives ten eloquent reasons for that signing, in the form of ten sweeping and majestic songs on which she is accompanied by [...]

DNRC027 | LP| 2003 | DELETED
Scaramouche’s all time favourite band paid Stung a posthumou(rou)s compliment by name-checking him in the title of what will hopefully be remembered as their “difficult” third album. Of course, the banal industry discourse surrounding difficult third albums fails to acknowledge that for most bands, every album is difficult. In fact, [...]

DNRC026 | CASSINGLE | 2003 | DELETED
At the end of 2003, knowing full well that DNRC’s finances were, like Walt Disney’s head, in a state of perpetual suspended animation, and knowing also that the ability of small horses to sing and/or play instruments has never been proven or observed in the wild, Davey Dreamnation (in [...]

DNRC025 | LP | 2003 | DELETED
It’s sometimes easy to forget (and hard to believe, not to mention impossible to not remember) that merely three years ago The Various Journals did not exist; that indy-dorks with their earthtone clothes and hi-fi equipment could wander into their local record shop and say to the knobhead sitting [...]

DNRC024 | LP | 2003 | DELETED
Cynics may cry “Amen” however, while it’s certainly true that you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find anything sadder than the lead singer of The Weather undertaking a tour of Micronesia ten days after the band fizzled out like luke-warm piss floating down an alleyway behind the Tribesco Social Club, [...]