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Sad Eyed Beatniks Cassette Bundle: POI & Self-Titled
Cassette + Digital Album
Sad Eyed Beatniks Cassette Bundle includes Places Of Interest cassette & Self-titled "Sad Eyed Beatniks" cassette tape. Places Of Interest duplicated by National Audio Company, "Sad Eyed Beatniks" s/t home duplicated.
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Sad Eyed Beatniks - Places Of Interest Cassette Tape
Cassette + Digital Album
Sad Eyed Beatniks "Places Of Interest" Cassette Tape duplicated by National Audio Company. Includes lyric sheet. All orders come with the mini-album "Curio Shop's Ruse"...
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Cassette Bundle: Sad Eyed Beatniks “Places Of Interest” + Present Electric “It’s Happening”
Cassette + Digital Album
Second duplication of Sad Eyed Beatniks “Places Of Interest” and limited home-duplicated copy of Present Electric’s “It’s Happening”. Originally released as 3-4 copies in May, 2015. “It’s Happening” was the unreleased tracks that didn’t fit in the Sad Eyed Beatniks album “& Other Memorable Selections”. POI is a Clear Cassette in clear case duplicated by National Audio Company; includes lyric sheet. IH is a home-duplicated black cassette, in clear jewel cases, J-cards printed from Dragon Printing (450 Taraval St, San Francisco, CA). Tapes start shipping 5/14/2021 presentelectric.bandcamp.com/album/its-happening
Includes unlimited streaming of Places Of Interest
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Sad Eyed Beatniks - Places Of Interest Cassette Tape
Cassette + Digital Album
2nd Duplication of Sad Eyed Beatniks "Places Of Interest" Cassette Tape duplicated by National Audio Company. Clear tape, clear case, Includes lyric sheet.
Includes unlimited streaming of Places Of Interest
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Sirens ring out, trains rumble underfoot, and the wind gusts in a wall of clouds...Places Of Interest tries to channel early-Rough Trade & Revolver-like sounds with the city of San Francisco as its focal point. Songs about intersections, parks, and donut shops put this lo-fi indie rock album on a map.
Sad Eyed Beatniks has been a project of mine since 2014. After getting burned out from recording the final Milky Baskets album, I decided I wanted to make something a little more straightforward with 4-track cassette recorders. When creating the Soundcloud account for the new project, I was prompted to include an artist title, so I just took two tracks from The Clean’s Anthology box set (that I was listening to at that moment) and had a new name.
The most recent Sad Eyed Beatniks album, Music From Big White, was about places I had lived in; rooms, apartments, neighborhoods; I love these types of songs that put you in a location like Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street”, Nilsson singing Newman’s “Vine Street”, Jonathan Richman’s “Lonely Financial Zone”, Husker Du’s “Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill”, “Violent Change’s “2nd and South Park”, etc. It’s just a simple backdrop where the story takes place and an easy way to frame a song, or in this case, an album.
The bulk of this album is made up of repeatedly listening to The Mekons self-titled album, going on long walks, learning to play the drums, playing around with varying 4-track cassette recorders, voice memos on MUNI, and cutting out segments of my favorite tracks and moving them around.
Everyone that lives in the city has their own experience; their own story to tell. Places Of Interest doesn’t try to define or frame it in a certain light. Rather, it collects moments of thought, happiness, confusion and puts you where it happened. Places Of Interest is my celebration of the city that I truly love.
credits
released November 13, 2020
Front cover by Peter Gray Hurley
Mastered by Mikey Young
All tracks written and performed by K Linn
Recorded at home, San Francisco 2019-2020
PSR-36
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