BOWERY ELECTRIC - s/t 2LP

Highly recommended.

Debut album from New York City’s Bowery Electric was released in late summer 1995 after they came to the label’s attention via their self-released 2x7" Drop EP from the year previous. The first in a trio of albums released by the core duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener finds them in their most raw form.

This new double LP version restores the track “Deep Sky Objects” to the original running order of the album as it was left off of the original single LP version due to side length restraints. This is the first time this album has been available on vinyl in almost two decades, and the first time the Drop EP has been available in any format since original release in 1994.

“The perfect realization of their aesthetic, each word and chord tuned and focused for maximum impact.” —Pitchfork

“Genuinely hypnotic.” —The Wire

On Pitchfork’s Best Shoegaze Albums Of All Time list and included in Andrew Earles’s Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996.