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The Mae Shi

The Mae Shi: Heartbeeps

  Catalog:  CD-GER-049   Format:  CD
 Date:  05/01/2009   MSRP:  $10.99
 UPC:  759656104920  Class:  K
Ten home-recorded tracks that plumb the depths of their musical taste, as influenced by their current infatuation with Melt-Banana, Deerhoof and overhyped UK grime as by their pimply adolescent love of Def Leppard, Nine Inch Nails, Dante’s Inferno and worship music. It’s a record that would have made the 11-year-old versions of the Mae Shi very excited. As with Terrorbird, they recorded it themselves in their bedrooms and living rooms, making up recording techniques as they went along. And as with Terrorbird, anything goes: drum machines, cut-and-paste choruses, handclaps, recycled riffs, hoots, hollers, and lyrics pulled from neuroscience textbooks and Plato’s Republic.

Sam McPheeters, of Born Against, Mens Recovery Project and Wrangler Brutes, provided the artwork.

TRACK LISTING

Single Disc: 
Heartbeeps(0:10)
Born For A Short Time(2:26)
Crimes of Infancy(1:44)
Heartbeeps(0:17)
The Meat of the Inquiry(1:40)
Spoils of Injury(0:42)
Eat the Prize(3:16)
Spoils of Victory(2:02)
The Universal Polymath(2:22)
10 Heartbeeps(2:20)