Name: Songs From Purgatory
Brand: June Panic

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

sc095

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2007-10-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

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3 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

June Panic

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

Label GB

june panic spent six years during the early 1990s crafting 14 lyrically disturbed and sonically self-mutilated albums that would make him the closest thing to an underground rock songwriting celebrity that the dakotas would bear during this era otherwise obsessed with grunge. while scratching an itch for dylan that could not be alleviated, june willed his bedroom songs into musical nuggets that find tonal residence between the hazy fog of ween and sebadoh, the great white isolationism of eric's trip, and the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink production style of '80s-era prince. the material embodied on 'songs from purgatory' was recorded in vans, dank basements and tiny apartments using crappy microphones on an even crappier 4-track machine. this body of work showcases a songwriting and producing talent that perhaps was only commercially held back by its medium - one which he initially embraced as a matter of necessity, but eventually grew to deliberately embrace with the zeal of a lo-fi revolutionary. according to june, "over time, i came to appreciate the sounds i was getting, and it dawned on me that recording in an expensive studio is not somehow inherently superior to 'lo-fi' recordings - it is simply a different medium". originally released as cassette-only albums on his own label 3 out of 4 records, june's master tapes were almost destroyed in the great flood of 1997 that consumed grand forks. over 200 master tapes sat submerged under the murky red river water for several days in his parents' basement until saved through a painstaking cleansing process that is hilariously documented in the liner notes to this collection. brought into this world by june, taken out by the flood, then brought back by june, these songs have been remastered by the able hands of the legendary kramer (shimmydisc, bongwater, galaxie 500).

Songs From Purgatory

Music GB