Colin Meloy Ausverkauf, alles muss raus:
These days, Colin Meloy fronts the Decemberists. But that wasn’t always the case. During his college days, at the University of Montana in Missoula, Meloy was in a band called Tarkio. The band, which took its name from a small town in Western Montana, was comprised of Meloy, Gibson Hartwell (guitar), Louis Stein (bass), and Brian Collins (drums). There was a self-titled debut, followed by an LP, I Guess I Was Hoping For Something More (1998), and an EP, Sea Songs for Landlocked Sailors (1999). In an interview with Amplifier, Meloy said: „We [Tarkio] had aspirations of being able to base ourselves as a band out of Missoula, Montana, like Low is from Duluth and Modest Mouse is from Issaquah [Washington], but I think we pretty quickly discovered that the reason why those bands succeeded was that were within an hour’s drive from a major metropolitan area.“
All of the band members weren’t able to leave Missoula, and Meloy relocated to Portland, Oregon with hopes of starting another band. There, he met some dudes and dudettes, added new instrumentation, and wrote about pirates and such. Albums were released, fans rejoiced, and Pitchfork raved. And that, boys and girls, is how the Decemberists were born into this world.
So that brings us to the present. With the success of the Decemberists, Kill Rock Stars will be releasing a complete and comprehensive set of Tarkio material. Neither a date nor a full tracklist is available. That said, here are the tracklists from the aforementioned LP and EP.
>>I Guess I Was Hoping For Something More
01 Keeping Me Awake
02 Caroline Avenue
03 Neapolitan Bridesmaid
04 Save Yourself
05 Better Half
06 Eva Luna
07 Kickaround
08 If I Had More Time
09 Sister Nebraska
10 Helena Won’t Get Stoned
11 Your Own Kind
12 Candle>>Sea Songs For Landlocked Sailors
01 Devil’s Elbow
02 Weight of the World
03 My Mother Was A Chinese Trapeze Artist
04 Mountains of Mourne
05 Tristan and Iseult
06 Never Will Marry
Quelle: Pitchfork
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