Blurbin’ Fridays – Apr 7

Hello and welcome to April. Well, it’s already 7 days into it but it feels like it just started. Today we’re running another special Blurbin’ Fridays here on Palebear. Please feast your senses on some of the songs from the awesome Keep Recordings label.

Based in Tuscon, AZ this great label has always been one of my favorites because of the quality of their artists as well as the great packaging. Even though their earliest releases were all CD-Rs, the packaging completely kicked the ass of many manufactured releases out there. The designs are sometimes letterpressed and other times laser printed, but in both cases are imaginative and unique. You really feel like each CD is a “keepsake”… something that is fast disappearing in the Itunes-driven indie music landscape.

Lately, they have been moving toward the direction of fully manufactured CDs though the same attention to detail in the design and packaging is still there. As far as the music goes, they are a bit like a Hush Records of the southwest. In any case, here are some tracks for you to judge for yourself:

1. Chad King – Naomi

2. Anamude – No One

3. Brian Michael Roff & The Deer – I Fell At The Opera

4. Tony Moreno – Longest Day

5. Campo Bravo – Haste/Waste

by Palebear