Album rétro : Bomb The Music Industry! - SCRAMBLES [Quote Unquote / Asian Man]

Désormais un pilier punk-rock, Jeff Rosenstock s'est d'abord fait connaître via ses bands The Arrogant Sons Of Bitches et Bomb The Music Industry!. Porté par l'ethos punk DIY, il a aussi fondé son propre label, Quote Unquote Records, qui serait le premier du genre à fonctionner sur base de donations (!). Via Bomb The Music Industry! (que Noisey a décrit comme étant « the Fugazi for the internet age of punk »), Rosenstock a sorti 7 albums de 2005 à 2011, à raison d'un par année SAUF pour SCRAMBLES, qui lui a pris DEUX ANS avant de paraître, peut-être notamment parce que le groupe a décidé d'investir plus largement dans l'album : ça a coûté CINQUANTE (50) PIASSES à faire c'te disque-là (contrairement à presque rien pour les autres albums) pis en plus pour la première fois y avait du reverb sur les tounes!

« Fall 2008: I wanted to record an album that cost $50. Truthfully, we never spent that much money on a record before, but that's just because Joel recorded us pretty cheap on the last one. This time, I wanted to go at it without any help. I horned in on Halo Fauna/Get Bent/Red and Blue's practice space in Ridgewood, Queens, and prepared to record every day until the record sounded very very big. There were some problems however. Like the fact that the gate to the practice space would often roll back over the door so the alarm would go off and the door wouldn't open so you couldn't stop it. Or like the fact that someone in the space has been practicing to the same Marnie Stern song every Friday at 2 PM for the past three months. Or of course, what anyone who has ever recorded in a practice space knows, bad metal bands. »