The Independent Hand, by The Throats

The Independent Hand

by The Throats

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1.	Good Job 01:33	info
2.	Old Tale (free) 02:40	info	download
3.	Exinstrumenta 01:54	info
4.	Always Losing (free) 02:17	info	download
5.	The Light Goes On When You Kneel 05:12	info
6.	Rummysomething 02:22	info
7.	Constellation 01:59	info
8.	Stumbling We 01:36	info
9.	It's Okay to Run Away 03:14	info
10.	Suckerpunch 02:14	info
11.	End of Side 1 00:19	info
12.	Pretty Spring Girls (free) 02:50	info	download
13.	Little Divorces 03:43	info
14.	The Maroons 02:35	info
15.	Intellectual Thirst 05:08	info
16.	Out of Your Hands (And Into Mine) 02:00	info
17.	End of Side 2 00:04	info

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The Throats' third album reveals the inner psyche (is there an outer psyche?) of a busboy stumbling through the alt. landscape of mid-90s America, wandering in the soft glow of a pre-internet dusk. A diorama in a wine jug constructed with sticky fingers and existential ennui. Recorded in early 1997 in The Carolina Room, Calabash, NC.

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released July 1, 1997

The Throats: Martyrs guitarist leaves Long Island for Calabash, North Carolina; starts solo project as the Throats. The lost years follow from 1994-1997. Records three and a half albums; self-destructs, returns to LI, continues recording. Moves to Oregon; issues swan song in 2010. After 15 years, it's enough already. The Throats were Mike O'Shaughnessy.

Words & music by Michael O'Shaughnessy (except "Intellectual Thirst" written by Chris Dal Ceredo & Pauline Dal Ceredo)
cp 1997 Michael O'Shaughnessy
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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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