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Pack Up Your Shadows

by The Successful Failures

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  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Pack Up Your Shadows. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases July 10, 2020

      $10 USD  or more

     

  • Ticket

    We will come to your place and play the album live - you provide the outdoor space, invite your friends. Let's celebrate. The full band will perform the entire new album plus whatever other SF tunes you want to hear. Basically you get a house concert. For those further out than a 50 mile radius of central NJ we may have to negotiate a different price to accommodate travel expenses. You can do this (and still be safe via common sense social distancing and face masks). Live music is not dead!! Of course you get a digital download of the new album plus CD or vinyl. Let us know your preference. Oh and of course you get the full acoustic album as a bonus too.

      $200 USD or more 

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The album jacket, designed by our graphics guru Mike Virok, features a reworking of images from a Mick Chorba collage. It's such a joy to see this design in a 12 x 12 format - but the real allure here is the beautiful sound of this album on the vinyl. Also included in this order is the 11 x 11 full color insert / lyric sheet, the SF Beer Tour sticker (designed by freelance artist Jason Kochis), and the "The Successful Failures" classic logo sticker in green. With the order of the vinyl you will also receive a digital download and physical cd of an intimate acoustic version of the full album. So let's tally it up....12" record, digital files of entire album, plus digital download/physical cd of acoustic version of album...plus the stickers! We'll sign the record if you want...just let us know (we'll have to break the seal).

    Includes digital pre-order of Pack Up Your Shadows. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases July 10, 2020
    item ships out within 2 days

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Enjoy the new album on compact disc technology - the jewel case packaging, designed by graphics guru Mike Virok, includes a reworking of images from a Mick Chorba collage. All CD orders will be fulfilled by Kool Kat Musik who is exclusively releasing the album on compact disc You will also receive the bonus CD from Kool Kat Musik featuring an acoustic guitar-only recording of each song in sequence. Finally your order will be accompanied by an SF sticker for you to slap on your notebook, car bumper, or laptop computer (or wherever you feel it will look best obviously).

    Includes digital pre-order of Pack Up Your Shadows. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases July 10, 2020
    item ships out within 2 days

      $16 USD or more 

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    For those of you who did not order our last album ("Saratoga")on vinyl here's a special offer - you get both "Pack Up Your Shadows" and "Saratoga" on vinyl. This is a very limited offer as we don't have many Saratoga's left. You will also get the digital download of "Pack Up Your Shadows" as well as the bonus acoustic album and the SF stickers. This is pretty good deal I must say.

    Includes digital pre-order of Pack Up Your Shadows. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases July 10, 2020
    item ships out within 2 days

      $30 USD or more 

     

1.
Honeycomb
2.
On Down the Line
3.
Murder 'Neath the Silver Moon
4.
This Girl 03:48
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5.
How Many Words
6.
More of the Same
7.
Whiskey Song
8.
Something Good
9.
My Bucket's Got a Hole In It

about

Originally intended as a between album ep this project blossomed into a full-blown album. Thanks to some late February in-studio inspiration and extra time due to the coronavirus quarantine this collection came together in a very short period of time. "It's how I always wanted to make an album," says Mick Chorba, "show up at the studio with a rudimentary knowledge of the material and work through it together, get it done in a few weeks." So here it is - less than a year after the 7th SF record, "Saratoga"! "Pack Up Your Shadows" is being co-released with the NJ based label Kool Kat Musik who will be exclusively distributing the physical CD version of the album which will be accompanied by an acoustic full album (all 9 songs) bonus cd (you will also receive the bonus CD as a digital download). The acoustic album features a live performance of each song by Mick Chorba and his acoustic guitar (he plays a little harmonica and whistles once or twice). The limited edition 12" vinyl version is available exclusively here. Order it up!

Here's an advance review from the most excellent The Big Takeover rock magazine:

Chesterfield, NJ’s SFs make a one-off Americana rock album they’ve been flirting with, going in full on a style that’s flecked recent records Saratoga and Ichor of Nettle. Now, Ron Bechamps mans mandolin as often as bass. Mick Chorba remains a supreme songwriter and throaty vocalist whatever they play, while his Replacements-esque flair has proceeded from “Hold My Life” to “Hey Good Looking.” What if Hank Williams hadn’t died at 29 and became a rock ’n’ roller, recording for Sam Phillips’s Sun with punkier guitars? He’d change the words to “I Saw the Light” to become “Something Good!” Other songs drive by Drive-By-Truckers; ‘More of the Same” is like a Lead Belly-via-Creedence “Midnight Special,” update; and the temptation-turns-tragic “Murder ’Neath the Silver Moon” duet with Grace Quackenboss reverses 1930s “lass gets murdered” ballads—“Omi Wise,” “Pearl Bryan,” “Pretty Polly,” “Fair Florella”—by making the maiden the motive-free murderess—he didn’t have it coming” like “Goodbye Earl.” Pack is another Failures’ success.

credits

releases July 10, 2020

Rob Martin - drums, vocals
Ron Bechamps - bass, vocals, mandolin
Pete Smith - electric guitar, bass, vocals
Mick Chorba - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano
Grace Quackenboss - vocal and organ on "Murder 'Neath the Silver Moon"
Greg Potter - electric guitar and vocal on "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It"


All songs written by Mick Chorba Dinner Time Music c 2020
Except for “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” written by Clarence Williams
Recorded by Matt Weber at Gradwell House in Haddon Heights, NJ
Except for “My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It” recorded live at Retromedia Studios in Red Bank, NJ
Additional recording at FDR Studio C in Chesterfield, NJ
Mixed by Adam Vaccarelli in Red Bank, NJ
Mastered by Drew Mazurek in Baltimore, MD
Graphic Design and Album Layout by Mike Virok in Hamilton, NJ

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FDR Label is the small NJ indie label with the big power pop heart. Formed in 1996, FDR Label is known for wildly popular tribute CDs to the Replacements, The Who, and the 80s movie tribute, High School Reunion.

Releases have featured Guided By Voices, Frank Black, Matthew Sweet, Pat Dinizio, The Bigger Lovers, Bastards of Melody, The Successful Failures, the Dipsomaniacs, Taggart, and many more. ... more

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