Dessau by Codeine

After the success of Codeine's Frigid Stars LP, the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Chris Brokaw booked time at Harold Dessau Recording in June 1992 to track an eight-song sophomore album. A few days and a couple of unexplainable high-pitched frequencies later, the record was scrapped, shelved, and forgotten about. Brokaw left the band shortly after, and these songs were re-tracked in various iterations for Codeine's final LP. On its 30th anniversary, Numero has unearthed these recordings, restoring the original White Birch to the band's exacting standards with producer Mike McMackin. A slowcore masterpiece hidden in plain sight.

Formed in New York in 1989 by Stephen Immerwahr, Chris Brokaw, and John Engle, Codeine created some of, if not the most, bluntly melancholy music of the 90’s. Relying on wistfully weighty slow-core tempos and fuzzy, distorted noise, Codeine was born out of the music-incubated Oberlin College before relocating and playing their first shows in gritty bars and venues on the east coast.