November’s album will be Teenage Hells, a “solo” album. That means it will be under my own name rather than a band name or an alter-ego/alias.
There are 17 original tracks, plus a bonus cover song on here. Most of them were recorded in my high school years (1991-1995) on either a boombox or home stereo system, upgraded to 4-track cassette sometime in ‘94 or ‘95. A few tracks are newer ones, sneakily added to the compilation when they don’t belong there. I’ll leave it up to listeners to decide which ones are which.
Teenage Hells is intended to become a series, much like Phantom Limbs. If you don’t know about Phantom Limbs, it’s an ongoing series of recordings with songs recorded immediately after they are written, in the most bare-bones, lo-fi format, usually just an acoustic guitar and voice on a cassette. I’ve got tons and tons of cassettes that I am going through, a painful process. If I find anything else good (a subjective term, for these recordings and compositions hardly meet any accepted criteria for musical “goodness”) then there might be a Teenage Hells Vol 2 as well.