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Downers

by The Feebs

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Stuck Inside of Portland with the Deep Sea Blues Again 02:20
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Ten Years From Now 04:06
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My Selfish Head 03:20
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My Last Birthday Party 02:44
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Zebulon 03:35
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Downers 02:07
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Goddamn Lost and Lonesome 03:38
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Sing a Song 03:01
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DOWNERS, recorded in 2003, is the long awaited follow-up to the Feebs' anthology "I'm Afraid of Life." Suppressed for half a decade by the Feebs' Jim O'Shaughnessy (who often makes grand statements like "I'm never releasing this" and "I'm done recording music"), the album finally saw the light of day in 2008.

Recorded at little ease studios in Portland, Oregon, DOWNERS' has been declared the Feebs' "Like Flies on Sherbert", Alex Chilton's alternately praised and reviled document of untethered rock and roll havoc.

DOWNERS is full of manifestos to no one; theses on the invisible labor; amplified and crushing, with melodies that pierce the noise like light through a fist.

The Feebs' music has been described as "personal, varied, strongly based on traditional songwriting virtues but full of invention and fresh as can be." It's also been described as sounding like it was "recorded in the bathroom." Founding member of the seminal 80s Long Island, NY basement band The Martyrs, Jim O'Shaughnessy began recording as The Feebs in 1994 while living in North Carolina. A return to NY was followed by a none-too-soon relocation to Portland, Oregon where he recorded in his basement, dubbed Little Ease Studios. An obsession with the sounds of his favorite music (Costello, Westerberg, Beach Boys) inspires his own work. He plays all the instruments (guitar, bass, keyboards, lap steel, drums, an odd assortment of percussion, penny whistle, keymonica, etc., etc.) and records it all on a digital 8-track, which he tries as hard as possible to make sound like his old busted 4-track.

DOWNERS was the first release by Sleeping Brothers Records.

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released July 1, 2008

Words & Music by Jim O'Shaughnessy
Performed and recorded by Jim O'Shaughnessy
©℗ 2003/2008 Jim O'Shaughnessy
Sleeping Brothers Records
www.sleepingbrothers.com

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Sleeping Brothers Records Portland, Oregon

Semi-fictional netlabel reissuing homemade albums from the catalog of Long Island's 90s tape label Big Casserole Records as well as releasing new music from same old guys & gals. Check out the hiss! NY/OR/CA.

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