LOS ANGELES, CA (FRIDAY MAY 3, 2024) – Today, Independent Project Records and David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) are releasing the triple album Tracks From the Attic on CD, digital, colored vinyl LP and a Supreme Deluxe Art Edition Box Set on vinyl. A new video for one of the set’s bonus tracks, “The Wrecking Ball is Coming Down,” is also out today.

First appearing as part of Record Store Day’s RSD Black Friday 2023, Tracks From the Attic were hand-picked by David himself and features solo demos recorded on audio-cassette between 1984 and 2004. The Supreme Deluxe Art Box Set Edition is numbered, autographed and extremely limited (70 copies only), comes in translucent natural vinyl and features a new color scheme cover, lyric sheets, plus one-of-a-kind autographed David J artwork. What makes each of the Supreme Deluxe Art Box Set so unique is the inclusion of an actual cassette tape from David’s personal home archive, one of the very copies that were used to compile this career-spanning archival release. This Supreme Deluxe Box Set version of Tracks From the Attic is only available from the IPR web store. More details here.

A West Coast Tour in support of Tracks From the Attic begins today with a one-of-kind event at the Bodecker Foundation in Portland, OR titled Enter the Attic: an Evening with David J. This will be a tiered ticketed event featuring an interview and Q&A with David and moderator Jeffrey Clark (Shiva Burlesque, IPR co-founder), a two-part live performance (solo acoustic and full band), a screening of music videos, and an art gallery showing. A digital download of the live show will be provided to all guests after the event. Full tour dates here.

With Tracks From the Attic, the Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder invites listeners on a most fascinating journey. Even while busy with his two legendary groups he was bursting with songs, and this is a thrilling selection of recordings he made sometimes on the road and mostly at home, with only the help of his Muse, a recorder and a lit candle. The sumptuous triple album that now collects these very jewels offers a unique experience that gives equal importance to the aural, the visual and the tactile.

Tracks From The Attic is already getting enthusiastic early press coverage including interviews, reviews, podcasts, airplay and news items in outlets including SiriusXM’s Darkwave “Slicing Up Eyeballs”, Outside Left (UK), Strutter (Netherlands), the Watt from Pedro radio show, the Sound Up! With Mark Goodman and Alan Light podcast, Side-Line Magazine (Belgium). Music Connection said: “Musically, this is J exploring his folky side. Lo-fi, chill and intimate, it’s wonderful to hear a man often associated with pomp and epic, stripped down. The music is great and, as one might expect from an IPR release, the packaging is beautiful. Embossed card sleeves, an essay by Jeffrey Clark — it generally looks incredible.“

Track Listing:

1.   Punishment by Roses
2.   The Dream Collector
3.   Blackmail
4.   The Murders in the Rue Morgue
5.   My Soul Was Still Shouting, ‘MORE!’
6.   I Wish Those Spacemen Would Come
7.   Badge of Lead (A Western)
8.   Small Death of a Broken Doll
9.   She Calls the Morning Cruel
10. Lady Bureaux
11. Is There Anybody There?
12. The Wolf Knows
13. Castles of Limburg
14. If Muzak Be the Junk Food of Love
15. Homo Sapien Blues
16. This Town
17. Vincent In the Flames
18. They’ve Murdered Christ Again
19. Lucky Dog
20. Old Man in the Rain
21. Conspiracy of Shadows
22. The Long Ride Home
23. Cruel Brittania
24. All the Pilgrims
25. It’s Got to Be the Angels
26. I’ll Put Off Thinking About You for Awhile
27. Or Do I Speak Too Soon?
28. Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!
29. Diamonds, Black Eyes and Valentines Blues
30. The Most Beautiful Girls in the World
31. Before the Positive Was Negative
32. At Paradise
33. New Year’s Day
34. Leaning Towards the Falls
35. Dying Embers (Bonus Track – Digital Only)
36. The Rattler (Bonus Track – Digital Only)
37. The Wrecking Ball is Coming Down (Bonus Track – Digital Only)

ABOUT INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS

Founded in 1980 by musician and artist Bruce Licher, Independent Project Records and its sister entity Independent Project Press are known for their instantly recognizable hand-printed record covers for bands including Camper Van Beethoven, For Against, Polvo, R.E.M., Savage Republic, Silversun Pickups, Stereolab and more. Aside from creating much of the artwork on his vintage two-ton hand-fed letterpress, Licher was nominated for a Grammy Award for his design work on the IPR released debut album from For Against. In 2020, the label was relaunched by both Licher and Jeffrey Clark with new and archival releases and is distributed by MRI/The Orchard & via Proper Music Group  outside the USA & Canada. IPR is based in Bishop, California, at the base of the Eastern Sierra Mountains.