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Artist:	PLUSH
Title:	Fed
Label:	BROKEN HORSE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	BKH 015CD

"Six years after its Japan-only release on the After Hours label, Broken Horse is thrilled to announce the first European release of the much-talked-about but seldom-heard Fed, the second album by Liam Hayes' Plush. Since Plush's debut 7", Three Quarters Blind Eyes / Found A Little Baby was released to universal praise in 1994 on Drag City, the tale of Plush has been one mostly concerned with the promise of new recordings, scrapped sessions, rumor and speculation concerning Hayes' quest to match the songs in his head with the recordings in his hand. What has been vastly overlooked is the music. It was four years before Drag City released Plush's debut album, More You Becomes You. Few albums can be described as being truly unique, but More You Becomes You is, without doubt, one of those albums that can actually put in a serious bid for that description. While a full-blown orchestral pop album was indeed planned, Hayes instead delivered a uniquely minimal set of intimate piano & vocal ballads, which somehow managed to present a unique, first-take feel despite the incredible attention to detail Hayes applied to the performances and recordings that had actually taken place. Although upon completion Hayes found himself without a label in either the US or Europe, the artistic success of the album could not be denied. Throughout its 14 tracks, from the roaring opening track 'Whose Blues' to the epic 'No Education' to the pop-masterpiece 'Born Together' to the closing lullaby 'The Woods,' Fed remains spectacularly melodic and inventive throughout. Upon its Japanese release, Uncut called the album 'the dazzling symphonic album he always threatened to produce,' whilst Rolling Stone called it a 'soulful symphonic masterpiece' suggesting that its non-domestic release was further proof of the decline of American culture."

Artist:	PLUSH
Title:	More You Becomes You
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	DC 070CD

"Representing a night without sleep of the soul, More You Becomes You is a collection of awake dreams all played to the tender accompaniment of a long piano. By a lone piano player. Liam Hayes' visions have been placed by those who know in the category of what we like to call chamber-pop, which implies the presence of some sort of orchestra, or faux-orchestra, or at least some kind of classically-oriented harmonic and melodic are. References points for the LP include: Nicky Hopkins' rare solo LP, The Tin Man Was a Dreamer, and Harry and Randy's Nilsson Sings Newman. And of course no comparison would be complete without John Phillips' bottom of the barrel pop classic, Wolf King of LA.

Artist:	PLUSH
Title:	Underfed
Label:	DRAG CITY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SN 010CD

Underfed is the homegrown early version of Plush's 2002 release, Fed. "Ever wonder what it's like to try and build a mountain? Fed was a record put together over countless days and nights, rehearsals and recording sessions, finally spanning a seven-year period. Basic tracks were recorded over an entire summer. Once they were completed, Plush-man Liam Hayes spent an entire winter making overdubs on them as a guide for an arranger to write the charts that would finish the album once the Earth grew warm again. When this finally happened, Fed took on a different shape. Underfed is the record before those other contours were cast upon it. It's the sound of trains passing a makeshift studio on Lake Street, the buzz of ancient gear carted uptown and down, the organic aura of secret places caught on tape, a fading smell of incense, Chamberlins whirring mysteriously and scoring paper fluttering in the wind on the coldest days of our lives."

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