Works Progress releases

Stumptone Gravity Suddenly Released

WP002 | LP + CD | $18

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″ + CD-R | $5

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.

Songs: “The Illustrator”, “Faulkner’s Blues”, “Measured Against” (CD-R only), “Carbonade” (CD-R only)

RIYL: Polvo, Silkworm, Bedhead, Shellac

Related releases

Stumptone “Circles” b/w “Jeremy Bentham’s Boots”

Two Ohm Hop TOH-002, 1999 | 7″ | $5

Psychedelic guitar rock. One side acoustic, one side electric. Great songwriting, great packaging.

Clear vinyl, multiple inserts including hand-screened insert on transparent vellum. Limited to 500 copies.

Stumptone Stumptone

Two Ohm Hop TOH-005, 2000 | CD | $12

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.

“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

70 minutes, 15 songs

RIYL: Skip Spence, Syd Barrett

Little Grizzly I’d Be Lying If I Said I Wasn’t Scared

Quality Park QPR010CD, 2001 | CD | $8

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

Other stuff

Tre Orsi no. 15

t-shirt | $12

Organic cotton American Apparel t-shirt. Design based on/shamelessly ripped off from the classic Faema e61 espresso machine. Sizes Unisex S, M, L, and XL.

Light Bright Highway Moon Glory and the 7th Sun

Two Ohm Hop TOH-001, 1998 | LP | $15

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.

“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

45 minutes, 1 song split over two sides

The Baptist Generals Dog

Quality Park QPR003CD, 2000 | CDEP | $8

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

Quality Park QPR009, 2002 | 12″ | $12

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.

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