The Poor Turns’ debut disk got an unexpected early release—or an impossibly late one, depending on what side of the road you’re on.
The delays were all in the studio—scheduling mishaps, equipment breakdowns and at one point the breakdown of an engineer (poor Mark Hammersmith’s heart episode). That’s par for the studio course, except that this was a spring-themed album (Turn of the season, see) and was thus kind of on a deadline.
Miraculously, time was made up on the production end, where the cancellation of a big-label order meant that a lot of in-limbo projects got rushed through.
Good thing, since “BGB” is already getting radio play. Also good since the band had scheduled a CD release party at the Bullfinch, then taken the “CD release” status of the gig, and can now put it back on again.
Now if only it would stop snowing.
Tonight: The Percy Phones at the Bullfinch, with the cool retro synths…Private party at Hamilton’s, no music so didn’t even bother to crash… Or Refuse at D’Ollaire’s, with an all-new set that will totally turn off their above-ground fans…