(Post-Punk) Bush Tetras - Happy - 2012, MP3, 320 kbps

Influential post-punk band the Bush Tetras will finally release an album that’s been lost in the archives for years. Happy, which was originally recorded and mastered back in 1997, will finally see a release Nov. 13 via ROIR. It was produced by Gumball frontman Don Fleming, who’s also done work with Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees and the Posies, among others.
Happy was first supposed to be released on Mercury Records, but the label was sold and the band’s A&R was laid off, leaving the album shelved until now. After countless label mergers, ROIR–who put out Bush Tetras’ 1983 Wild Thing cassette–finally secured the rights to the album.
”Happy is the last cohesive body of work that the band made together and the first CD that we recorded with bass player Julia Murphy,” explains Pat Place, guitarist for the Bush Tetras. “We had a great experience recording in the studio with producer Don Fleming. We are so ‘happy’ that Happy will finally be out in the world after being lost in record company crossfire for 15 years!”
Bush Tetras formed in 1979, in the lower east side of Manhattan. Pioneers of the indie movement long before the term had been coined, the band’s first 7″ single on historic NYC label 99 Records (Liquid Liquid, ESG, Glenn Branca), “Too Many Creeps,” landed the quirky, post-punk band on Billboard’s dance chart. Straddling the line between No Wave, New Wave and Art-funk, the co-ed quartet’s influence, and the band’s distinctive guitar sounds, can still be heard today!