Krebs Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings
CSR51
I Know It By Heart
CD

Legendary Portland songwriter Pete Krebs is back with his first full length since the superb dusty pop of the much lauded Sweet Ona Rose. This hot new release features the latest incarnation of Pete's band of thieves, the Gossamer Wings, including John Moen (Steve Malkmus' Jicks and the Maroons), Mike Clarke (the Jicks), Jimmy 'Talent' Talstra (Dharma Bums and No.2), and Portland chanteuse Michael Jodell. Twelve tracks about crying in your beer uptown, hot sweat in a sharkskin suit, and a girl too pretty to mention. Crucial.


Young Effectuals The Helio Sequence
CSR56
Young Effectuals
CD

And from the sprawling sprawl comes the calling call...

Following the critical darling that was their 2000 debut, Com Plex, the Helio Sequence takes it up and out on their second Cavity Search full length Young Effectuals. With their by-now-traditional diet of sleepless excess replete with temporary insanity and recurring mania, Brandon Summers (vocals/guitar) and Benjamin Weikel (keyboards/drums) once again holed up in the one room music store in suburban Portland, Oregon to engineer, produce, mix and master the album themselves.

Young Effectuals is the trademarked Apollonian pop cool of the "boys" from Beaverton set to the dynamite stun volume of their live sets. This is The Helio Sequence. This is effectual.