"Like a Shakespearean mise en abyme, Wilderness Days contains all of Nothing Is Enough! alongside six additional recordings sequenced into a compelling whole. The full-length is intended to capture and contextualize most if not all of Lubec's early work as the band prepares what it considers a proper first full-length, which it is currently recording. That said, there is nothing in this collection that can be characterized as "improper;" Wilderness Days feels like a single collection of music, not a pastiche. As we've quipped elsewhere, there's only one way Lubec could have improved on Nothing Is Enough!, and that would be to make it longer."
- Jay Breitling
credits
released January 15, 2013
Side A:
1.) Evan Wright
2.) Your Magic Wand
3.) Cherry Adair
4.) Gang Knife Battles
5.) Salar's Decay Theory
6.) You'll Know Then
Side B:
7.) Holiday Traffic
8.) Rip Tide
9.) Run With What You've Found
10.) You'll Know Then Reprise
11.) You're A Good Idea
12.) Wilderness Days
Side 1 from Nothing Is Enough!, TAT002, 2011
Side 2 previously unreleased
Recorded at Ernestine Studios Tobacco Farm
Drum Engineerng on tracks 1-6 by Alan Weatherhead at Sound Of Music Studios, Richmond, VA
Drum Engineering on tracks 7-12 by Christopher Compton at Metro Sound Studios, Richmond, VA
Additional engineering on tracks 7-12 by Mark Adams
Mastered by Jamal Ruhe at West West Side, NY and Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering, Portland, OR
Artwork by Matt Dressen and Caroline Jackson
Brandon Martin- Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Caroline Jackson- Piano, Synth, Vocals
Eddie Charlton- Guitar, Vocals
Jesse Threatt- Guitar, Vocals
David McClendon- Guitar, Piano
Noah Wan- Cello on "Holiday Traffic"
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