Splice Premiere: Height With Friends - Swiss Chard, Vol. 1

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:44 -0500

This is the first in a series of free Height With Friends EPs. These are songs that couldn't be on Baltimore Highlands or on our forthcoming album, due to time constraints. Here's a little breakdown of each track...

SWISS CHARD:

Last November, Mickey Free, Travis Allen, Emily Slaughter and myself spent ten days writing and recording in a cabin in Deep Creek Lake, MD. This is one of the first songs we made.

PINECONE BOYS:

This was originally written as a sequel to the PT Burnem/Height song “Pinecone Hill,” from his forthcoming album, Paper Cranes (which comes out on December 5th). It worked out better as a little interlude, rather than a big production.

RIGHT ROAD:

This riff was lifted (with permission) from an unreleased Frenemies song. This was also from our cabin session. It's one of my favorite songs from that time. It was cut from our forthcoming full-length at the last minute, because it just didn't fit.

FERRYBOAT:

This song was created when PT Burnem and I tried to write and record an EP in one day. It didn’t work that way, but we came out with a lot of good stuff, including this joint.

ROCK ROLL JAM MIX:

This is a cover of the last part of the Schoolly D song, "Put Your Filas On." I changed the words to the verse, but it's the same idea. It was done with maximum respect.

--Height (Nov. 16, 2009)

Many thanks to Jasen Reeder for his mastering of the EP, and to Height for making this Splice Premiere possible.

Help put officer Jason Anderson in jail for a long, long time

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:40 -0500

Nature Fight!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:03:57 -0500

Wait, wait, did you just say Bus Puss? Oh, man. So lame.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:54:23 -0500

Skeet shooting? In a tank? Genius

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:44:38 -0500

Earliest known live footage of Jimi Hendrix

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:27:59 -0500

I don't know what's going on here

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:29:23 -0500

Soccer game may start WWIII. The controversial goal that put France in the World Cup

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:58:03 -0500

Nothing but net on that one

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:41:00 -0500

It's kind of like Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:02:00 -0500

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