Hi there! Works Progress is an independent endeavor run by friends in Denton, TX. Records and other items are available here in our store.
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Works Progress Releases
Tre Orsi Devices + Emblems
WP003 – LP + MP3 – $13 – SOLD OUT
Sorry, this record is sold out. You can possibly purchase this from the Comedy Minus One Shop. MP3/FLAC/other format downloads available at the Tre Orsi Bandcamp site. You can also purchase this at the Tre Orsi Bandcamp page, as well as iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, and other online retailers.
9-song debut LP, produced by Bubba Kadane (The New Year, Bedhead). Tense, dynamic rock music that see-saws between restraint and explosiveness. Limited edition LP (200 copies), in hand-assembled packaging with free digital download coupon.
“. . . one of the year’s best albums.” – The Unblinking Ear
“I could listen to Tre Orsi’s “The Engineer” all day; it’s safely in the Sonic Youth/Unwound school of triumphant, open-chorded noise rock, to the perfect, head-nodding level of abstraction.” – Doug Mosurock, Dusted
Stumptone Gravity Suddenly Released
WP002 – LP + CD – $15
Long-awaited 2nd LP from this classic Texas psychedelic combo. Limited edition marbled-green vinyl housed in hand-screened packaging, with CD included for convenience.
“Somewhere Syd Barrett and Skip Spence are smiling.” – Fred Mills, MAGNET
Tre Orsi no. 7
WP001 – 7″ + MP3 – $4 – SOLD OUT
Debut from the new trio of Bryan VanDivier (South San Gabriel, History at our Disposal, Wiring Prank), Howard Draper (Shearwater, Okkervil River, Little Grizzly), and Matthew Barnhart (Little Grizzly). Sweeping, dynamic rock music, produced by Bubba Kadane of The New Year and Bedhead.
2-song 7″ + 4-song digital download (coupon included).
Songs: “The Illustrator”, “Faulkner’s Blues”, “Measured Against” (MP3-only), “Carbonade” (MP3-only)
Other Stuff
Tre Orsi no. 68 t-shirt – $8
Two-color design on Tultex cotton shirts. (Similar in fit to American Apparel.) Available in Olive or Black. I know this photo looks like brown and black, but trust me, it’s olive. Size XL is sold out, sorry.
Tre Orsi no. 15 t-shirt – $8
Organic cotton American Apparel t-shirt. Design based on/shamelessly ripped off from the classic Faema e61 espresso machine. Sizes: Unisex L — only 1 shirt left in stock.
Stumptone Stumptone CD – $10
Beautiful song writing, beautiful packaging. Intimate lyrics and music all with a sense of goodwill. Noisy Rock. CD in jewel box with hand-screened tray cards on transparent vellum. 70 minutes, 15 songs,
“This is delicate beautiful music often pushed to even more beautifully raw agitation, constant restlessness dosed with gentle goodwill…Meandering, echoing, exquisitely melodic, but never predictable. Plavidal’s (Stumptone) sensibilities blithely step right off the indie rock ship and into Oz”. – Christina Rees, Dallas Observer
Little Grizzly I’d Be Lying If I Said I Wasn’t Scared CD – $7
Little Grizzly’s second record is a rock and roll take on modern American folk music, full of stories of people who try hard and fail hard. Features Matthew Barnhart and Howard Draper of Tre Orsi.
“It’s been a few years since the Flaming Lips abandoned psychedelic guitar-punk for more experimental fare. In fact, so much time has elapsed that it only seems appropriate for the five men in the Denton, Texas, group Little Grizzly to pick up their Okie nieghbor’s flaming torch. With this second slab, the band lives up to the expectations set by its 1999 debut: Guitars bang and soar while singer George Neal whinnies above the fray, greeting the universe with open arms and a great big heart.” – Time Out New York
Light Bright Highway Moon Glory and the 7th Sun LP – $12
A psychedelic orchestra on guitar, bass, and drums. A beautiful wall of sound. Instrumental. Heavy Mellow. A lost Texas psych classic.
White vinyl with double-sided, fold-over cover. Limited to 500 copies. 45 minutes, 1 song split over two sides.
“Galatic rock for the ages…one critic said that Light Bright Highway only have one song, but when it’s this monumental, one song is quite enough. 4 out of 5 stars.” – Dave Segal, Alternative Press
The Baptist Generals Dog CD – $7
One of the most striking and original bands to ever come from Texas. Their first official release before signing with Sub Pop. Released in 2000 on Quality Park Records. 8 songs. Limited to 1000 copies, only 20 copies left in stock.
“This feverish stomp n’ howl is what I once expected Johnny Dowd to sound like, instead of the mannered performance artist he turned out to be when I finally caught his act. By contrast, the Baptist Generals stir up a flailing clatter that reeks of absolute conviction; there is not a wink to be found in these Denton, Texas musical primitives’ fierce, blunt songs. Chris Flemmons has the wail of a man three times his age as he tears away at his $20 acoustic guitar, while Steve Hill whacks out forceful rhythms on drums and/or what sounds like everything else in reach. Flemmon’s songs draw you in with a compulsive, convulsive melodic sense as his alternately tender and gruesome stories unfold. Flemmons knows how to keep the listener on edge, but his songs never sound contrived. At the turn of the new century a crude, rustic style like this has to be deliberately chosen (even in a smallish Texas college town), but these lo-fi acoustic songs are ultimately vehicles for unbridled emotion, not exercises in rootsy posing. I only wonder if this kind of awesome intensity can be sustained through a full-length CD or a long career. Whatever the case, these eight brief songs have the mark of something special. Possibly genius: we’ll have to wait and see.” – Puncture
The Paper Chase Cntrl-Alt-Delete-U LP – $10
A five-song soundtrack to an unreleased film about God, technology, and man’s interaction with both. A pre-Kill Rock Stars release from these Dallas veterans, released in 2002 on Quality Park Records. 5 songs. Black vinyl. Limited to 500 copies, only 25 copies left in stock.