SPRINGHOUSE’S FROM NOW TO OK OUT TODAY FROM INDEPENDENT PROJECT RECORDS 

2008 Album Reissued on CD, Vinyl and Digital Formats with Full-Album of Bonus Tracks Out Now!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA (FRIDAY MARCH 14, 2025) – Independent Project Records (IPR) and the New York City three-piece Springhouse announce that the band’s 12-track album, From Now to OK, is released today. Originally appearing as a limited edition CD in 2008 on Independent Project Records, the new reissue is now available on vinyl, CD and digital formats and includes a bonus CD of previously unreleased demos and live tracks. Full album & purchase details here.

All physical formats are presented in a beautiful package from master designer and IPR co-owner Bruce Licher. This new LP edition available today is on both black vinyl as well as clear orange vinyl. A super-limited translucent green tint vinyl of only 200 copies was released for RSD Black Friday in November of 2024. The album has been remastered by Josh Bonati and includes a second bonus disc of previously unreleased demos and rarities, packaged with a folding insert in an oversized CD pocket folder letterpress-printed by hand at Independent Project Press.

Press coverage has already begun with reviews confirmed in the March print issue of Spin, the U.K. print magazine Shindig!, The Big Takeover, the Second Disc as well as interviews on The Lydian Spin podcast with host Lydia Lunch, an upcoming episode of both It’s Another Sunday & Only Three Lads podcasts as well as airplay on KXLU’s Part Time Punks show.

New York trio Springhouse may be best remembered as the first major-signed, nationally touring U.S. shoegaze band of the original era: a 1991 MTV video, “Layers,” a Rolling Stone feature and copious airplay brought notice to two memorable albums on the fabled Virgin Records’ subsidiary Caroline Records. The group started with a hot 1990 debut single for Singles Only (a label founded by Bob Mould, Maxwell’s Steve Fallon and radio DJ Nick Hill) then signed to Caroline, who released their first two albums, 1991’s Land Falls (featuring superb design by IPR’s Bruce Licher) and 1993’s Postcards From the Arctic.

Springhouse were among the first Americans to cover My Bloody Valentine and share stages across the country with the likes of Ride, House of Love, The Chills, Psychedelic Furs, Belly and Lemonheads. The three are also fondly recalled for their utterly unique contribution to the original dream pop movement/explosion: singer/songwriter Mitch Friedland exclusively played small, nylon-stringed acoustic guitars, heavily processed through customized pickups with wicked effects, while employing an endless battery of alternate tunings. Amidst the trio’s melodic guitar-pop prowess, Friedland’s accentuation of latent Sixties Brit-folk underpinnings made them truly singular in the shoegaze/dream pop era. This, combined with bassist Larry Heinemann and drummer Jack Rabid’s supple yet sometimes more punky, bolstering attack, a crisp sound, exuberant ensemble playing, highly evolved arrangements, and a love of a tune to die for, proved to be their calling card.

From Now to OK captures Springhouse exploring a more acoustic, folk rock-indebted sound; still showing their trademark flair for dreamy melodic textures, the ever-Anglophile Springhouse can be heard embracing the influence of late Sixties greats from The Beatles to Nick Drake.

All in all, Springhouse were one of New York’s, and the U.S.’s, finest pre-Nirvana indie rock bands—and remain one whenever they choose to come out of retirement again.

LP Track Listing:

1.   Passion
2.   Moving Van
3.   Time Runs Out
4.   No More Yesterdays
5.   Grateful
6.   Pomegranate Tree
7.   Sea and Rain
8.   Never Impossible
9.   Mercedes Marxist
10. Snapshot
11. 10 Count
12. Anew

Bonus CD Track Listing:

1.   Passion (Instrumental)
2.   Time Runs Out (Instrumental)
3.   No More Yesterdays (Instrumental)
4.   Sea and Rain (Instrumental)
5.   Mercedes Marxist (Instrumental)
6.   Snapshot (Instrumental)
7.   Passion (Demo)
8.   Sea and Rain (Demo)
9.   Rescue Work (Mercedes Marxist – Demo)
10. No One Has to Know (James Mastro Cover)
11. Open Your Eyes (Live)
12. Passion (Live)
13. Moving Van (Live)
14. Enslave Me (Live)
15. Alley Park (Live)

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.

 
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