Numero Group

When you don’t have all of the CDs in time for announce day so you make do...Today we are announcing the third chapter in the Magnolia CD Bundle which includes Codeine’s Dessau, Headsparks by Seam and Macha Loved Behead, Bedhead Loved Macha.

NUM900: Codeine - Dessau
After the success of Codeine’s Frigid Stars LP, the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Chris Brokaw booked time at Harold Dessau Recording in June 1992 to track an eight-song sophomore album. A few days and a couple of unexplainable high-pitched frequencies later, the record was scrapped, shelved, and forgotten about. Brokaw left the band shortly after, and these songs were re-tracked in various iterations for Codeine’s final LP. On its 30th anniversary, we unearthed these recordings, restoring the original White Birch to the band’s exacting standards with producer Mike McMackin. A slowcore masterpiece hidden in plain sight.

NUM910: Seam - Headsparks
In the wake of Bitch Magnet and current of Superchunk, Sooyoung Park and Mac McCaughan formed a raw version of Seam in the summer of ’91. With bassist Lexi Mitchell, the trio banged out an album and two singles worth of shambolic dream pop in the sweltering Chapel Hill heat. Ten songs of talk-whispered vocals, sloshing guitar solos, scattered snare rolls, Velocity Girl’s Sarah Shannon, and the original version of Codeine’s slowcore classic “New Year’s,” on LP for the first time in 30 years.

NUM933: Macha Loved Bedhead – Bedhead Loved Macha
A eulogy to a band and a millennium, the year 2000’s collaborative Macha Loved Bedhead has been remastered from the original analog tapes and finally makes its way to the mother format. Recorded long distance by Wichita Falls-born brothers Matt and Bubba Kadane and Josh and Mischo McKay, this five-song, 34-minute EP combines gamelan, slowcore, and a cover of Cher’s “Believe” pecked out on a touch tone phone into a seamless meditation on life at the end of the American century.

Only available as a collection of 3 right now, but if we have any left over, we will put up individual CDs soon. And we’re always down to take requests for CDs you want to see in the next bundles so let us know.