Artist: Portastatic
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Be Still Please
Year: 2006
Tracks: 9
Though Mac McCaughan has muckle to keep him fussy -- playing in Superchunk, managing the successful Merge Records -- he likewise spends time transcription as Portastatic. With a variable batting order, the side-project has recorded two albums and respective singles since 1993, when Tom Sharpling of 18 Wheeler Records asked McCaughan to button some of his lo-fi, four-track recordings; he obliged with the singles "Sandals with White Socks" and "Freshman." Then in 1994, McCaughan released an intact Portastatic album, I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle. The radical followed with the Scrapbook EP and a second album, Irksome Note from a Sinking Ship. Nature of a Sap appeared in 1997. 2000's EP De Mel, De Melao paid court 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. The uncut Summer of the Shark was released in 2003, only not before some other circumscribed edition undivided (2002's The Perfect Little Door).
