Red House Painters Down Colorful Hill Vinyl

Down colorful hill the 1992 debut release of the san franciscan act is a collection of subtly remixed demo songs slow and sad incantations of isolation and misery along with seemingly undying funeral marches serving as glimpses of reluctantly accepted realizations laments for faded love and dreams lost to the merciless fading of time.

Red house painters down colorful hill vinyl. Fronted by primary songwriter mark kozelek vocals guitar the band also included drummer anthony koutsos and bass guitarist jerry vessel. Red house painters type. Eight songs left over from the recording sessions would make up the band s second self titled album kozelek s lyrics focus on themes of pain. Complete your red house painters collection.

Vinyl lp album country. The first song we heard from red house painters is 24 the magisterial slowcore opener on 1992 s down colorful hill. Red house painters is a lp box set containing the band s much vaunted output for 4ad. Red house painters were an american rock band formed in san francisco california in 1988.

Release group information artist. Strictly limited to just 1 500 numbered copies worldwide red house painters contains the four albums released between 1992 and 1995 down colorful hill red house painters rollercoaster red house painters bridge and ocean beach which is being reformatted from it s original double 10 release to a. It s from the point of view of someone aged 24 worrying about growing old. 4ad cad 2014 format.

The album follows red house painters 1992 debut down colorful hill and the recording sessions spawned twenty three songs culled from leader producer mark kozelek s back catalog fourteen of which comprised the rollercoaster album. They were one of the most prominent acts associated with the slowcore sadcore subgenre.