RELEASE DATE: October 30, 2000
3’s Company
3’s Company – All songs written by Lawrence McDonald except “Bypass” written by Matt Ellis, Lawrence McDonald, and Alex Hall. ©2000 Creative Advance Music. Released October 30, 2000 on CD: 28 minutes, 24 seconds.
The lyrics to the songs are printed in the booklet.
Math rock + jazzy indie-pop (keyboards + electronic toys) = Bells Of, the sporadic and eclectic project of warm-fuzzy musician Lawrence McDonald. If you’re counting, the new Bells Of record, 3’s Company, is actually the band’s fourth release in a series beginning in 1992: Eleven:Eleven came first, followed by Two Dos Or Not 2? in ’94 and Four Your Listening Pleasure in ’98. Why the chronological discrepancy? The Teenbeat Records Web site is fairly frank on the topic – the long-lost third record was originally slated for a ’97 release but was held hostage by the recording studio while certain bills were sorted out. But a count of 1, 2, 4, 3 is still pretty much in line with the Bells Of oeuvre, in which a quirky brew of blissfully mismatched pop and punk variables never seems to behave. McDonald and friends perform tonight with Teenbeat label mate Johnny Cohen at 9 p.m. at the Galaxy Hut, 2711 Wilson Blvd., Arlington. Free.
– Colin Bane, Washington City Paper.
LINER NOTES
PLAYERS
Lawrence McDonald, vocals, guitar, keyboards
Fernando “Nate” Carr, drums
Ian “Bass” Michaels, bass
GUEST PLAYERS
Matt Ellis, vocal and arrangement on 2 and 10
Alex Hall, guitar and keyboard on 10
Scott Otter, bass on 8
Geoff Turner, keyboard on 8
PRODUCED BY
Lawrence McDonald
RECORDED BY
Lawrence McDonald,
Alex Hall,
and Geoff Turner
at Creative Advance,
Super Chief,
and Quindocqua.
MIXED AT
Super Chief Studios
(tracks 2, 5, 7, 9, 10)
WGNS, Washington, D.C., USA
(tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 8)
COVER ILLUSTRATIONS
Peter Quinn
COVER DESIGN
Joel Gwadz
DESIGN PRODUCTION
Rob Myers
PHOTOGRAPHY
Tom Allnutt,
and Joel Gwadz
ET CETERA
All songs written by Lawrence McDonald (©2000 Creative Advance Music.
except “Bypass” written by Matt Ellis, Lawrence McDonald, and Alex Hall.
The lyrics to the songs are printed in the booklet.
RELEASE DATE
October 30, 2000
FORMAT
compact disc
LENGTH
CD:
28 minutes, 24 seconds
CATALOGUE No.
Teen-Beat 283
DETAILS
600 pressed.
INSERT:
6-page folder and tray card (outside colour and inside black and white).
JEWEL CASE:
with white tray.
LABEL:
yellow, gray and black.
Printed and pressed by
Bellwether Mfg., Bloomington, Indiana (CDs pressed by Cinram).