Chris Brokaw
Puritan (LP)
Label12XUGenreFolk & Traditional
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Chris Brokaw is the consummate underground rock musician. In a career spanning thirty-plus years he has been in countless bands (Come, Codeine, Charnel Ground, The Lemonheads, to name a few) has been a sideman with everyone from Thurston Moore to GG Allin, pounded countless stages on nonstop tours, and played on over seventy recordings, including lp's, ep's, cassettes and soundtracks. 'Puritan' is his tenth solo lp and it's a killer.
From the hypnotic repetition on the extended instrumental outro of title-track opener "Puritan", the wounded grace of "Depending", to the fragile beauty of the Velvets-esque duet with Claudia Groom, "I'm the Only One for You",, and the ghost of Alex Chilton echoing through "The Bragging Rights", onto the GBV-like firestorm of 'Periscope Kids', and ending with the 'On The Beach'-era Neil Young minimal strum of his cover of the late Karl Hendricks' "The Night Has No Eyes", Brokaw has crafted an understated masterpiece. Puritan is an album that is all heartache and rebirth, resignation and joy, the kind of record that is so needed but all too rare these days. A classic from front to back.
Format
Recorded and mixed by Andy Hong at Kimchee, Cambridge MA 2019/2020. "Bragging Rights" and "The Night Has No Eyes", recorded by Britt Robischeaux at Cloudland, Fort Worth, TX, November 2019. Mastered at Chicago Mastering Service by Matthew Barnhart.
All songs written by Chris Brokaw except "The Night Has No Eyes" (written by Karl Hendricks, lyrics used by permission). LP layout and design by James Keeler.
Thank you : Gerard Cosloy, Andy, Britt, Griz, James K., Jimena + Emiliano, Anna + Ruthie, Julie + Bob Noyes, Erin/Jonah/Bootsie/Benjie/Dee + David Koeplin, Steve Lowenthal/VDSQ, Baptiste + Anoc, Codeine + Come, Possum, Ferries!, Charnel Ground, Lemonheads, Findlay Sandsmark, Pentagon Booking, Undertow, Born Music, my family, my friends, my pupils, all the cool clubs, all the cool people, thank you for being so cool.
p&c Chris Brokaw 2021 under license to 12XU
Release notes
Recorded and mixed by Andy Hong at Kimchee, Cambridge MA 2019/2020. "Bragging Rights" and "The Night Has No Eyes", recorded by Britt Robischeaux at Cloudland, Fort Worth, TX, November 2019. Mastered at Chicago Mastering Service by Matthew Barnhart. All songs written by Chris Brokaw except "The Night Has No Eyes" (written by Karl Hendricks, lyrics used by permission). LP layout and design by James Keeler. Thank you : Gerard Cosloy, Andy, Britt, Griz, James K., Jimena + Emiliano, Anna + Ruthie,…
| A1 | Puritan | 5:50 | |
| A2 | Depending | 4:07 | |
| A3 | I'm The Only One For You | 4:23 | |
| A4 | The Bragging Rights | 2:24 | |
| A5 | I Can't Sleep | 1:28 | |
| B1 | The Heart Of Human Trafficking | 7:15 | |
| B2 | Periscope Kids | 4:57 | |
| B3 | Report To An Academy | 2:51 | |
| B4 | The Night Has No Eyes | 4:22 |
- Dave Carlson
- Band [The Chris Brokaw Band], Bass Guitar
- Pete Koeplin
- Band [The Chris Brokaw Band], Drums
- Chris Brokaw
- Band [The Chris Brokaw Band], Guitar, Vocals, Photography By [Chico Photo], Written-By (A1 to B3)
- James Keeler
- Layout, Design
- Matthew Barnhart
- Mastered By
- Andy Hong
- Mixed By, Photography By [Band Photo], Recorded By (A1 to A3, A5 to B3 )
- Sasha Syeed
- Photography By [Front Cover]
- Britt Robischeaux
- Recorded By (A4, B4)
