Great Record, by U.S.Highball

Great Record

by U.S.Highball

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1.	Kelvinhall 02:26	buy track
2.	Hall of Heads 01:43	buy track
3.	Don't Travel Far 02:45	buy track
4.	697 President 02:08	buy track
5.	Summer Boy 00:59	buy track
6.	Gold Coast 01:33	buy track
7.	Shapovalov and Tsitsipas 02:18	buy track
8.	Love Theme From "Great Record" 01:28	buy track
9.	My Frankenstein 02:30	buy track
10.	Old Place 01:28	buy track
11.	Where'd The Century Go? 02:40	buy track
12.	Do It Yourself 01:53	buy track
13.	Pedro 2 01:57	buy track
14.	Old Dumbarton Road 01:15	buy track

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U.S. HIGHBALL

From the bedrooms of Glasgow, Scotland comes “Great Record”, the debut full-length from U.S. Highball, formed of lifelong friends and neighbours Calvin Halliday and James Hindle. While taking a break from playing together in The Pooches, the twosome hunkered down and begin working in earnest on a batch of new songs exploring their shared passion for melody and brevity.

Foregoing a live drummer for the sound of an Alesis HR-16 drum machine, and employing a trusty Casiotone organ alongside guitars and synth, every note was recorded using just one SM58 microphone. Dozens of songs were assembled piecemeal at home over several months, with fourteen being dispatched across the pond to be mixed by Modern Baseball's Ian Farmer at The Metal Shop in Philadelphia.

The result is “Great Record”, an irresistible half-hour of jangling power pop with hooks for days, on which songs about plush toys and Greek tennis stars sit cosily alongside ambivalent meditations on DIY culture, art school posturing and the vagaries of modern queer existence. Above all it's a document of living in Glasgow and knowing that, despite the ceaseless rain, it’s actually the greatest city on earth.

“Great Record” is an album for any fan of short, sharply observed pop songs that make a point of lodging themselves resolutely in your brain on first listen. It's astonishingly addictive, over before you know it, and demands to be flipped over and played again. It's not called “Great Record” for nothing, you know.

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released July 12, 2019

All songs written and recorded in Yorkhill, Glasgow between Autumn 2018 and Spring 2019 by Calvin Halliday & James Hindle.

Mixed by Ian Farmer @ The Metal Shop, Philadelphia PA

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Calvin & James
Glasgow, Scotland

Est. 2018

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