Hardly Released: Bedroom Recordings, Demos, Rarities, Unreleased, and Widely Ignored Material

Description

• Featuring artwork by Seth Bogart (Hunx & His Punx)
• A portion of proceeds from sales will be donated to theACLU
• Cassette versiondoes notinclude a digital download

Often referred to as Sub Pop’s “sister label,” Hardly Art is an offshoot of Sub Pop designed to spotlight emerging talent. While the label’s initial focus was local when it started up in 2007, over the past decade it has expanded beyond the Cascade region to welcome artists from all over the United States and abroad to a roster that has grown increasingly varied and eclectic, encompassing the sounds of garage rock, post-punk, surf rock, power pop, electronic, and other debatably useful genre descriptors.

Hardly Released: Bedroom Recordings, Demos, Rarities, Unreleased, and Widely-Ignored Materialmakes a strong case for Hardly Arts sonic diversity. Spanning a decade of recordings, the seventeen tracks of Hardly Released culls together a wide-ranging assortment of songs from the labels history, including a little-heard gem from Hardly Arts inaugural signing (Arthur & Yu) and a tune from Chastity BeltsI Used to Spend So Much Time Alonesessions, the labels most recent release. The full list of contributors includes Colleen Green, The Dutchess & the Duke, Fergus & Geronimo, Gazebos, Grave Babies, Hausu, Hunx & His Punx, IAN SWEET, Jacuzzi Boys, Jenn Champion, La Luz, The Moondoggies, Protomartyr, Seapony, and Shannon and the Clams.