
It didn't strike me as a remarkable album at first blush when it dropped in 1993, but
Pond's debut album for Sub Pop was an ever so slow-charmer, gradually inculcating it's tuneful guitar crunch and sinewy pitch and sway into my cerebellum over the next several years. Two respectable albums followed -
The Practice of Joy Before Death and
Rock Collection, but neither quite held a candle to it's immensely more intoxicating precursor. While there were pre-album singles, there wasn't much evidence of life prior to
Pond. That was until one of my readers contacted me last year and shared a 1989 cassette by an Oregon trio dubbed
Mood Paint who contained in their lineup soon to be Pond stalwarts
Charles Campbell (guitars/vox) and
Chris Brady (vox/bass). For better or worse, Mood Paint's easy-goes-it penchant didn't carry over to the frenetic and feedback-ridden noise pop that would be uncorked by these very same hands in the Clinton-era. That being said, the relatively lucid hue of these half-dozen tunes aren't the stuff of embarrassment, rather the product of a humbler, and dare I say, more approachable muse than the one that was about to come roaring to life in Pond. A big thanks to Jeff for setting me up with everything!
01. When You Get What You Want
02. Cracks and Swirls
03. 25 Years Ago
04. Florida
05. Everything
06. The Dull Earth
https://www47.zippyshare.com/v/NG1BxoVN/file.html
7 comments:
Could you re-up this one? I had a Mood Paint demo a while ago... but lost it. Would love to add this to my digital collection. Thanks!
The link has been updated.
Thank you very much! Much appreciated.
Any chance for another re-up? It would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
Great stuff. Thanks
Thank you so much! This is amazing!
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