Additionally, an ultra deluxe box set of all three albums is available in a limited edition of 1000 copies. Each album will be packaged as a double album with a CD of the same material. The albums have been faithfully restored from the original masters, and are accompanied by a plethora of singles, demos, live recordings, and Peel sessions. 1991's Frigid Stars LP, 1992's Barely Real, and 1994's The White Birch received much critical praise upon release, but Codeine dissolved before any of that hype would carry Low, Bedhead, and the Red House Painters to international acclaim.Īll three albums will have subjected to Numero's notoriously elaborate packaging and detailed liner notes, including essays by Sub Pop's Jonathan Poneman, Love Child's Alan Licht, and the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd. Following the demise of Come, original drummer Chris Brokaw became a solo artist and itinerant guitarist, most recently (2007) with Thurson Moore Sonic Youth.įrom 1990-1994, New York City's Codeine were making somnambulant waves on a musical landscape reeling from Sub Pop's better known exports.
Doug Scharin continued in Rex and June of 44, and later as the band leader of HiM. David Grubbs also participated on the album. A somewhat different full-band version of the song appears on Codeine's next album, now titled Wird.īrokaw left the band after the release of Barely Real to play full-time with his other band Come, and was replaced by drummer Doug Scharin.Ĭodeine's next and final release was the full-length album The White Birch, released in 1994. is a solo performance on piano by David Grubbs (of Bastro, Squirrel Bait and Gastr del Sol). Some of these songs would be re-recorded for the final album. Immerwahr rejected several of the songs after the recording session. Their second release, the short album Barely Real was issued in 1992. The album was released on Sub Pop the following year.
The band's original tone, marked by slow tempos, Immerwahr's nasal vocals, and Engle's ringing Telecaster, did not evolve much during their career.Ĭodeine released their first album Frigid Stars on the German label Glitterhouse in 1990.
Codeine pioneered the Slowcore and Sadcore subgenres of Indie Rock, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as Low, Idaho and Red House Painters. Codeine is an American Indie Rock/Slowcore band formed in 1989 by members Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums), and John Engle (guitar).
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