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Excellent! Shellac album due June 5

Shellac's fourth album, the follow-up to 2000's 1000 Hurts (why oh why did it not make Our 66?), is to be released on June 5.

Excellent Italian Greyhound takes its title from Todd Trainer's own dog, a greyhound called Uffizi. Its tracklisting is thought to run as follows:

'The End Of Radio'
'Steady As She Goes'
'Be Prepared'
'Elephant'
'Genuine Lullabelle'
'Kittypants'
'Boycott'
'Paco'
'Spoke'

The record was, unsurprisingly, produced by Steve Albini. As soon as it's release, you can pen a user review of the album here.

1000 Hurts

was 2000 i think?

aye, it was indeed

they curated ATP in 2002 though i believe...

The End Of Radio

Is the best song Shellac have ever written. This should be something special.

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Good cover art too.

"why oh why did it not make Our 66?"

Because 1000 Hurts isn't a very good record. A few crackers on there but after track 2 it just trundles downhill massively.

However, I'm really looking forward to this one. It has at least three great songs on it. :D

sorry...

...dunno what was going on there...

steady as she goes...?

shellac in pop song cover alert? about time they did something a bit more chipper, miserable sods. :D

I like Terraform the best!

This is going to be good anyway. It has 'Spoke' on it. It'll be good to hear a proper version of it.

Aaa

This is the best music news of the year so far... can't wait.

And it has Spoke on it! One of the best rants to music ever.

Seven years

that's a monstrously long time to wait.

Agreed

Roll on May the 17th!

"Steady As She Goes", "Elephant"

Seems there's a bit of a Jack White fetish going on eh? ;)

Isn't a very good record?

you are insane... Song Against Itself and Watch Song are immense.

Perhaps you just mean it's not very god by shellac's standards?

1000 Hurts

is a phenomenal record! But nowhere near as good as At Action Park.

Anyway, i cant wait for a new record. Ive got 'Steady As She Goes' on a DVD and its amazing!

i wont believe a word about this

until i have the actual copy of it IN MY HAND.

your truly

are shellac the cool indie nerd version of G & R?

End of Radio

is scary. Well, that Peel Session is.

Why are they releasing on a Tuesday?

Will the track be 8 minutes do you think?

Dunno. Who you talking to?

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

because

albums come out in the US on a tuesday.

i got this album already..

it pretty much sounds like every other shellac record - ie. not bad, not great, pretty one dimensional. don't wet your pants about it yet.

i dunno

are their records still on touch & go here, or does a european label license them?

touch & go

as far as i know

yo yo yo

zzzz....

its shellac i'm very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very excited

sounded like

you fell asleep to me! i almost did. seriously.

is that

the end of radio?

ive seen them play that twice and wondered what the hell it was...finally! a release!

im so excited.
i just cant hide it ect

IT'S ABOUT FUCKIN TIME

Shellac had a new album out. 7 years is a long time to wait, seen as how(and let's be honest about it) 1000 hurts wasn't amazing. the first 2 albums and all the b sides in between, was some of the most important music of the mid to late 90's. nothing would please me more than this new outing bringing Shellac right back in amongst my life again. really. nothing.

it has been

an believably long time since 1000 hurts, yeah.
sometimes i get a bit annoyed when bands take so long to release albums...but then with shellac, you have to think hes got a full time job producing other bands too.

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