Superchunk - What a Time to Be Alive (2018) [16.44 FLAC]

  Genre: Rock
  Style: Indie
  Source: CD (log + cue)
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: 1,000 kbps
  Bit depth: 16
  Sample rate: 44.1 kHz

  01 What a Time to Be Alive
  02 Lost My Brain
  03 Break the Glass
  04 Bad Choices
  05 Dead Photographers
  06 Erasure
  07 I Got Cut
  08 Reagan Youth
  09 Cloud of Hate
  10 All for You
  11 Black Thread

  Perhaps no band was more emblematic of the true spirit of American indie rock during the 1990s than Superchunk, the pride of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Following the D.I.Y. ethic to the letter, the bandmembers operated solely by their own rules, ignoring all passing trends by sticking to their trademark sound - typified by the buzzing guitars and high, impassioned vocals of frontman Mac McCaughan - and rejecting all major-label advances in favor of the unlimited freedom afforded by owning their own company, the highly successful Merge Records. Although Superchunk's resistance to the overtures of the music industry may have deprived them of the wider audience their work deserved, perhaps their greatest legacy remains their unwavering dedication to the indie tradition, a model that other up-and-coming bands often strive to emulate.  Superchunk were formed in the college town of Chapel Hill in 1989 by singer/guitarist McCaughan, bassist Laura Ballance, drummer Chuck Garrison, and guitarist Jack McCook. Initially dubbed merely Chunk - the "Super" prefix was later added to avoid confusion with a similarly named New York City avant jazz band - the group issued its debut single, What Do I, on the Merge label, which was jointly run by McCaughan and Ballance. The follow-up was 1990's epochal Slack Motherfucker, MacCaughan's blistering tirade against a lazy Kinko's co-worker. The single was immediately hailed on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the definitive indie anthems of the era, and with the subsequent release of their self-titled debut LP, Superchunk were widely celebrated among the most promising young bands in America