Portastatic
Mac McCaughan became an indie rock hero while fronting Superchunk and by founding and managing the successful Merge Records -- Portastatic was the outlet for his solo recordings and songs that didn't quite fit his day job band. The side project began in 1992 when Tom Scharpling of 18 Wheeler Records asked McCaughan to release some of his lo-fi four-track recordings; he obliged with the singles "Sandals with White Socks" and "Starter." Then in 1994 McCaughan released an entire Portastatic album, I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle, followed by the Scrapbook EP and more albums, 1995's Slow Note from a Sinking Ship and 1997's The Nature of Sap, which progressively became less lo-fi in nature. Released in 2000, the De Mel, de Melão EP paid homage to classic Brazilian artists like Caetano Veloso and Arnaldo Baptista. In 2001 McCaughan returned with Looking for Leonard, the score to a film written and directed by Superchunk fans Matt Bissonette and Steven Clark.
Around this time Superchunk went into semi-retirement and Portastatic became McCaughan's full-time group and a real band with revolving membership (though often including Superchunk'sJim Wilbur on drums). The full-length Summer of the Shark was released in 2003, followed by an album of covers and live songs (Autumn Was a Lark) later that same year. As Merge's profile in the indie world and beyond continued to grow (Arcade Fire and Spoon even reaching the upper reaches of the Billboard charts), so did the quality of Portastatic's output. Bright Ideas (2005) and Be Still Please (2006) are excellent albums that exhibit McCaughan's first-rate songwriting, and his 2006 soundtrack for Who Loves the Sun shows off his arranging and composing skills. In 2008 the band released a career-spanning collection of rarities and singles, Some Small History.
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Discographie
15 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Bright Ideas
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 23 août 2005
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Some Small History
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 9 sept. 2008
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The Summer of the Shark
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 8 avr. 2003
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Slow Note from a Sinking Ship
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 20 juin 1995
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I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 1 janv. 1994
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Autumn Was a Lark
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 7 oct. 2003
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The Nature of Sap
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 11 mars 1997
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Scrapbook
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 6 mars 1995
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De Mel, De Melão
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 9 mai 2000
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The Perfect Little Door
Portastatic, Ken Vandermark, Tim Mulvenna
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 23 oct. 2001
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Who Loves the Sun
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 6 juin 2006
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Looking for Leonard
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 22 mai 2001
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Sour Shores
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez Merge Records le 12 sept. 2006
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I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle
Alternatif et Indé - Paru chez One Little Independent Records le 1 janv. 1994
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Looking For A Power Supply
Pop - Paru chez Houston Party. le 7 juin 2005
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