RR011-Unnatural
Helpers-Four Wolfs (LP)
Recorded in our
practice space with Kurt Bloch in 2013 on a Tascam 388 home recording 8-track
gifted by Kelley Stoltz (thanks again Kel!) by the same group (Andrew Greager,
Johnnie Heinz, Andrew Sullivan, Dean Whitmore) who recorded 2012's "Land
Grab".
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
Released
November 24, 2019 on Reefers Records
Side
A:
Heavy
Sugar
Museum
of Kenneth
Civil
Man
Black
Marks
Blunt
Daggers
Side
B:
Code
of Silence
Lie
To Me
The
Seed
You're
Thinking Wrong
Liberator
Dominator
Unnatural
Helpers are
Dean
Whitmore (drums, vox)
Andrew
Greager (guitar, vox)
Johnnie
Heinz (guitar, vox)
Andrew
Sullivan (bass, vox)
Recorded,
mixed & mastered by Kurt Bloch
RR011
Reefers
Records, Seattle, WA.
Copyright
2019