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Recorded Live, May 12, 2007 at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. Limited Edition of 300 copies. One-sided vinyl LP. Screen-printed covers by the band.
Not a debut but an introduction, meet First Communion Afterparty: "If a hyper-feminized, egalitarian-shambolic band like FCAP has an anthem, it's probably Burno's mesmerizing "The Ebb," which culminates in a mystical chant borrowed, with permission, from the Wiccan priest Starhawk: "We are the flow/We are the ebb/We are the weavers/We are the web." They surround themselves with all the expected phantasmagoria: An Alice in Wonderland coloring book sits next to an ashtray; Holcomb references the use of religious symbolism in The Golden Compass series of fantasy novels; Watkins's boyfriend just gave him The Prism of Lyra (a book about aliens); Haberkorn implores me to check out Magical Egypt, a documentary available on the internet. And of course, where there is mind expansion, there are mind-expanding drugs—but FCAP collectively decline to discuss them....The real tie that binds is FCAP's shared taste. Their sound derives from a soupy mix of records from their parents' collections—Genesis, King Crimson, Yes—and personal downloads like Jesus & Mary Chain, "early" Dandy Warhols, "early" Blur, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Before they formed the band, they were just a bunch of bored kids isolated two-by-two in south Minneapolis, each certain they were the only ones into the kind of music they were into, not yet aware of the swirling, collective unconscious prancing in its purple paisley puissance outside their purely physical doors." - Steve Marsh, City Pages, September 19, 2007 - 3rd place in Picked to Click XVII poll
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