SCHOONER - YOU FORGET ABOUT YOUR HEART [20th ANNIVERSARY] (LP)

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION via, ahem, 10,000 Hz. 

• 1st time on vinyl
• expanded vinyl reissue w/ 3 previously unreleased demos
• remastered by Wes Wolfe of Tangible Formats
• extensive liner notes by Grayson Haver Currin
• LTD numbered edition of 300
• #1 - #100 on 180g black vinyl LP
• #101 - #300 on opaque green w/ white marbled vinyl LP
• standard LP jacket w/ obi strip + 4-panel insert
• 20-track companion download

"How quickly can a could-have-been-classic get lost? Can it happen in just four years? A decade? Two?

In 2004, North Carolina’s very new Schooner seemed poised to become the next beloved emissary of that state’s long-heralded indie rock and alt-country scenes. Reid Johnson’s uncanny knack for hooks and his sensitive little twang dovetailed so perfectly with the harmonies of his sister, Kathryn. Billy Alphin’s sweet lope and ready-when-you-are drive anchored their songs, alongside bassist Tripp Cox, with heart and insight. Their debut, You Forget About Your Heart, seemed a sure bet, its wry tunes about tender places inhabiting an unlikely intersection of slippery psychedelia and bleary-eyed country, home-recorded brooding and blown-out rock.

Bad breaks? Mismatched ambitions? Slipped opportunities? For whatever reasons, it never quite happened, and Schooner, at least as they are here, stalled after one more record, after just four more years. These nine songs, though, are Johnson’s poetic real-time documents of loss—lost love, lost time, lost possibility, all rendered with the faintly hopeful sense that good things may come back around.

And so it goes now for You Forget About Your Heart, a wistful but triumphal sliver of big feelings bound to still-bigger hooks, now reemerging from a vital circa-millennium scene 20 years after the fact. Remastered by Wes Wolfe in an edition of 300 LPs (for the first time ever, mind you), this version also includes liner notes that share the story of the band’s beginnings and three previously unreleased demos that reiterate Schooner’s lambent heart—never forgotten, per se, but reintroduced here through its could-still-be-a-classic debut."

AND ALSO, THIS IS IMPORTANT: if you live in North Carolina and want to pick up your copy at the vinyl release show at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro on Saturday, November 2nd, "select in-store pickup" at checkout. Anyone placing a pickup order with an NC billing address will be contacted and we'll bring your copy to the show, ok?

And, as always, the images here are mockups...colors may vary a bit in real life, let's not make a big deal out of it.

And in the meantime, check out our pal Ian Milby's animated trailer for this thing: