RADAR BROTHERS The Illustrated Garden LP
Vinyl LP format
Jim Putnam has been making great music under the name Radar Brothers since the mid 1990s. In 2008, after the release of their fifth full length CD Auditorium, original bassist Senon Williams and drummer Steve Goodfriend departed the band and Putnam soon found himself with a new rhythm section. New bassist Brian Hussey and drummer Stevie Treichel have been instrumental in taking the music in exciting new directions as well as being eager to hit the road. The new lineup played a handful of shows in Europe and the US before regrouping back in Los Angeles and beginning work on what culminated in this excellent collection of songs. Merge records released The Illustrated Garden in the Spring of 2010 and the band teamed up with Squid Vs. Whale soon after to release this, their first album on vinyl in the U.S. Radar Brothers have recently returned from a tour supporting Modest Mouse and will be on the road with Teenage Fanclub this fall, following the release of the LP version of The Illustrated Garden.
The album was recorded by the band to 2” tape and the LP version was mastered directly from the analog mixdown tapes for superior sound quality. The LP also includes some alternate lyrics: some of the words for “People” were edited out of the CD version, but since the LP stampers were cut directly from tape playback, you get the original lyrics.
