The record was the
first we'd collectively written & felt like a turning point to me. I wanted
Johnnie to incorporate his uke jams, Andrew G to incorporate his love of
C&W fireside song. Andrew S wanted to write really embarrassingly sweet pop
songs. I'd written a couple Jesus songs though I'm not religious! Fuck yeah.
All of it! But at that point we'd been at it a bit & in the end we couldn't
survive to see this metamorphisis or even the release of 4 Wolfs. Out with a
wimper. Something about practice schedules & space rent and.. splat. That
bugged us all. We were proud of the record. We were also proud of the cover
painted by Max Nordile, retrieved from above Max's marinara splattered stove
& walls of his shared (by many) Oakland house. It all felt like... us!
There were two
attempts to release the record by labels that collectively yielded a test
press. The last effort agitated us into examining our strangely still existent
band fund & seeing the remainder not too overwhelming, I decided to release
it on Reefers Records, a label run by my partner Gabi Page-Fort and I.
And now what
happens? Well nothing! It's done. Fucking 4 Wolfs. We liked it and we wanted
copies to exist! We hope our friends & another 250 people get a copy &
like it too. Mayhaps you will. If not pass it along to someone who might!
Love,
Dean & the
Unnatural Helper Bewgie Wewgie Rock Band Oufit