CD compilation of Asheville punk and alternative bands to be released Dec. 11; Forty Furies, Grammer School, more to be featured

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Press release here:

On December 11, 2010 Umbrella Tree Records will issue their first CD release, Natural Selections: Sounds of Asheville’s Indie Underground, a compilation of local punk and alternative bands.

The release will include the Forty Furies, Grammer School, the Machiavillains, Solito, Balloon Wars, the Spandrels and Pallas Cats. The many different styles that permeate the CD correlate the richness and incredible variety that’s all too often underappreciated due to the over-saturation of the local music scene.

Represented styles could be described as power-pop, soul, chamber-pop, post-hardcore, post-punk, post-rock, math-rock, art-punk as well as many other genres come to mind, making this release as fun as it is prescient. Recorded locally at Anarchy Audio and locally mastered by J Ferris at Discfunctional Family Studio, the album has a warm lo-fi sound from the integration of key analog instruments used during the production process giving it a fluid consistency from track to track. With the release of Natural Selections, Umbrella Tree hopes to invigorate the region’s indie music community and to instigate greater interest into these up and coming artists as well as this thriving music scene.