SPRINGHOUSE’S FROM NOW TO OK REISSUED FOR FIRST TIME ON VINYL WITH PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS CD OF RARITIES AS PART OF RECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY

NYC Three-Piece Most Recent Full-Length Album Originally Released in 2008 by Independent Project Records

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2024) – Independent Project Records (IPR) and the New York City three-piece Springhouse announced today that they will reissue the band’s 12-track album, From Now to OK on Record Store Day Black Friday. Originally released as a limited edition CD in 2008 by Independent Project Records, this will be its first time on vinyl and includes a bonus CD of previously unreleased demos and live tracks. Full details here.

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 late sixties influence of Nick Drake and The Beatles. Preserved in a beautiful package from master designer Bruce Licher, this custom-cut metallic ink jacket, with super-limited translucent green tint vinyl (200 copies for RSD Black Friday), is sure to be a collector’s highlight.

“It’s amazingly gratifying to have From Now to Ok released on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day Black Friday with a bonus CD of rarities,” said Jack Rabid from Springhouse. “What’s even more gratifying is that it’s being released by Independent Project Records who we have released more of our albums with and who do such amazing hand-letterpress work.”

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 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 dreampop 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 Britfolk underpinnings made them truly singular in the shoegaze/dreampop 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.

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
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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