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Title: Lights From The Wheelhouse
Release date: 25 July, 2006
Record label: 4AD
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The dual nature and strange coherence of The Late Cord isn’t surprising, considering its members, John-Mark Lapham and Micah P. Hinson, are each from completely different musical backgrounds despite sharing the same birthplace - the small, arid West Texas town of Abilene. Though John-Mark and Micah grew up within ten miles of each other, they didn't meet until 1999. They were introduced by a mutual friend, Brandon Carr, who had helped Hinson record his first album, The Baby And The Satellite, and who would go on to become lead singer with The Earlies.
"I gave [Micah] a three-minute track of a simple, droning bass loop, which he miraculously took away and devised a full set of lyrics for," Lapham remembers. "This hit me hard - it was so close to the same mood and feel of the sort of emotional, sedating sounds I grew up with from labels like 4AD."
The two continued recording together, producing fragmentary tracks either from sudden inspiration or from song ideas Hinson had been working on. Lapham took these bits and pieces with him to England and worked on them between Earlies sessions. Lapham helped his friend score a deal at Sketchbook around the time The Earlies were taking off, but he never gave up work on The Late Cord, and when the opportunity came for The Earlies to do a remix of a Rachel Goswell song, Lapham leapt at the chance to bring 4AD's
attention to his and Hinson's side project. Lights From The Wheelhouse is the initial result, and a full-length will follow in the yet-to-be-determined future. Hinson and Lapham go all-out multi-instrumental on the record, with John-Mark holding down organs, synthesizers, bells, tape recordings, space echo, loops and programming; and Micah handling vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin, upright piano, Casio keyboards, a Salvation Army organ, thumb piano, blow tuner, synthesizer, harmonica, toy accordion, trap set and samples.
With these two young musicians' individual careers taking off so rapidly, it's a miracle that Lights From The Wheelhouse even happened. And it's a good thing it did happen, because this short recording holds enough weight and beauty to last for the rest of the year.
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