Hard Quartet - The Hard Quartet (LP)

Sealed. Double LP in gatefold sleeve.

The Hard Quartet is: Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White.

The Hard Quartet is a band. But what is a band? A band, perhaps, can be thought of as a body, a corpus, in which physically discrete lifeforms comprise a chimera that shrieks with one voice. In this particular band, which is one of millions in the world today, four players selflessly merge, become musical, and emit rock 'n' roll that is familiar but new, warm but icy, melodic but Sphinx-like in it's seductive and subtle riddles... essentially, The Hard Quartet has leveled, cultivated, and made lush an entirely new steppe in the ecosystem of guitar-bass-drums-voice agriculture.

LP 1 / Side 1
1 Chrome Mess
2 Earth Hater
3 Rio's Song
4 Our Hometown Boy
5 Renegade

LP 1 / Side 2
1 Heel Highway
2 Killed By Death
3 Hey
4 It Suits You

LP 2 / Side 1
1 Six Deaf Rats
2 Action for Military Boys
3 Jacked Existence

LP 2 / Side 2
1 North of the Border
2 Thug Dynasty
3 Gripping the Riptide