{"id":7070,"date":"2024-06-19T19:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7070"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:33:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T19:33:20","slug":"bbsitters-club-joels-picks-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?page_id=7070","title":{"rendered":"BBsitters Club &#8211; Joel&#8217;s Picks Vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7074 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2544\" height=\"2544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES.jpg 2544w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-FINAL-DIGI-COVER-HUGE-RES-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2544px) 100vw, 2544px\" \/>To be released on cassette, CD and digitally on August 16th, 2024. C66 &#8211; yellow cassette with black imprints, an XL 4-panel J-Card and artwork by HausMo Max. CD packaged in a 4-panel digipak with printed inner CD pocket. This is the catalog page with album information and artwork. To purchase, head to our <a href=\"http:\/\/hausumountain.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2396983228\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/tracklist=false\/tracks=2790644198\/esig=06a4373cd77de45c7634679f09a531aa\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bbsittersclub.bandcamp.com\/album\/joels-picks-vol-2\">Joel&#8217;s Picks Vol. 2 by BBsitters Club<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>BBsitters Club<\/b> is a rock band based in Chicago that features Doug Kaplan on MIDI guitar and vocals, Charlie Olvera on guitar and vocals, Max Allison on bass, and Paul Birhanu on drums. As the label\u2019s de-facto in-haus band, <b>BBsitters Club<\/b> satisfies <b>Hausu Mountain<\/b> co-founders Allison and Kaplan\u2019s urge to remain connected to the rock and roll they grew up loving and playing in bands as teens \u2014 far across the spectrum from the experimental electronics featured on the lion\u2019s share of HausMo releases. The band came to life in a basement practice space in 2015, but didn\u2019t emerge from their rehearsals until years later, opting to woodshed and sculpt their songs to the point that they could perform live as a fully realized project \u2014 loose around the edges and improv-minded by design, but dialed into their tight instrumental interplay and on-a-dime transitions between styles and genres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">A solid four years after the one-two-punch releases of <b><i>BBsitters Club &amp; Party<\/i><\/b>, the band\u2019s 2020 debut studio album, and <b><i>Joel\u2019s Pick\u2019s Vol. 1<\/i><\/b><i>, <\/i>the first volume in a series of audience-recorded live takes from shows around Chicago, we find the <strong>BBs<\/strong> reviving the <b><i>Joel\u2019s Pick\u2019s<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>series with <b><i>Vol. 2<\/i><\/b><i>. <\/i>The album presents live cuts from five shows at Cafe Mustache, Cole\u2019s Bar, and Sleeping Village between 2019 and 2023, including two new songs and one cover of <b>Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band<\/b>\u2019s \u201cKandy Korn\u201d (<b><i>Mirror Man<\/i><\/b><i>, <\/i>1971) that haven\u2019t seen the light of day on any studio or live <b>BBsitters Club <\/b>release to date. The material that the band first presented on their studio album evolves into new fractal permutations of live chaos and time-honed precision on <b><i>Joel\u2019s Picks Vol. 2<\/i><\/b>, with tracks often segueing into each other as multi-part suites or extending into more ambitious improvised passages.<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">Charged with the energy of a close-knit group of friends willing to follow along with each other\u2019s most outlandish ideas both in composition and live performance, <b><i>Joel\u2019s Picks Vol. 2 <\/i><\/b>offers us a bewildering yet always tongue-in-cheek palette of ideas cherry-picked and mashed together into amalgams that both embrace \u201crock traditions\u201d and defy them with a cherubic grin. <b>BBsitters Club<\/b>\u2019s amorphous compositions land somewhere between the world\u2019s most baked prog band and a jamband that\u2019s never content to lapse into wheel-spinning complacency. Shades of the <b>Grateful Dead<\/b> hang heavy over the band in shared elements of both their sound and the projects\u2019 overarching ethos, as every <b>BBsitters<\/b> show has been recorded in an ongoing band-endorsed live taping process spearheaded primarily by Kaplan and dear bud Joel Berk (namesake of <b><i>Joel\u2019s Picks<\/i><\/b><i>, <\/i>and also of the band\u2019s multiple songs whose only lyric is the word \u201cJoel.\u201d)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">On <b><i>Joel\u2019s Picks Vol. 2<\/i><\/b><i>, <\/i><b>BBsitters Club<\/b> cartwheel between eras and styles of rock music with abandon \u2014 a CRT TV stuck flipping from channel to channel after your dad falls asleep with one leg on the remote. We encounter the elliptical dueling guitars and autumnal atmospheres of midwest emo \/ math rock, the gregarious stomp of electrified country rock, blues rock that has melted from ingesting one too many hallucinogens, and fried <b>Dev<\/b><strong>o<\/strong>-style art punk that breaches into the realms of ska before melting into free-form noise rock flecked with the bizarro imitative instrument tones of Kaplan\u2019s MIDI guitar. Previously unreleased song \u201cParty in My Chevy\u201d floats in an upbeat yet vaguely wistful headspace with its evocations of \u201cparty[ing] every single day\u201d all summer long, dialing into a strain of late 90s\u2019 \/ early 00s\u2019 rock radio that adapted classic rock and grunge into a more palatable presentation for the masses. Meanwhile, the other new song \u201cWest of Your State\u201d mines sounds from California rap-rock and funk-punk with its rapped near-nonsense <b>Anthony Kiedis<\/b>-core non sequiturs (\u201cgonna take your nonna to the hot dog factory\u201d) and follows the trail across the boundary into n\u00fc-n\u00fc-metal.<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">No matter what rabbit hole they fall into, <b>BBsitters Club<\/b> maintains their bonkers sense of humor borne out in spontaneous transitions between far-flung styles and lyrics that specifically pay homage to or skewer the rock references that they channel. When the jukebox arm of <b><i>Joel\u2019s Picks Vol. 2<\/i><\/b><i> <\/i>lands on the boys covering <b>Captain Beefheart<\/b>\u2019s \u201cKandy Korn,\u201d we get a sense through the lens of the song of what motivates them as a band: the fusion of technicality and absurdity, the instrumental interplay that veers between locked-in precision and spiraling cacophony, the grooves that sound moments away from crumbling away with the landscape in a mudslide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7061\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/BBsitters-Club-Press-Photo-1-by-Joel-Berk-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7073\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-1536x950.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-2048x1266.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HASUMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-BACK-FULL-PANEL-485x300.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7071\" src=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-768x476.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-1536x951.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-2048x1268.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/HAUSMO142-BBsitters-Club-Joels-Picks-Vol.-2-TAPE-FRONT-FULL-PANELS-484x300.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be released on cassette, CD and digitally on August 16th, 2024. C66 &#8211; yellow cassette with black imprints, an XL 4-panel J-Card and artwork by HausMo Max. CD packaged in a 4-panel digipak with printed inner CD pocket. 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