Slow Note From A Sinking Ship is Portastatic

Portastatic

Portastatic is an American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s by Mac McCaughan. Portastatic began as a solo project for McCaughan, lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk...

's second studio album. It was released on Merge Records

Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records...

on June 20, 1995.



The album was recorded at Duck Kee Studios by Jerry Kee, except Skinny Glasses Girl, The Angels of Sleep, Spooky, Running Water and Isn't That The Way, which were recorded by Mac McCaughan on a Tascam 624 4-Track cassette recorder "with little or no engineering involved."



The CD and Vinyl versions of the album had different track listings and running orders. "Spooky" and the hidden track appear on the CD only. "Your Own Cloud" appears on the LP only. In addition the second side of the vinyl LP ends with an endless loop of synth sound from the ending of "In The Manner of Anne Frank."

CD track listing

1. "When You Crashed"
2. "Skinny Glasses Girl"
3. "San Andreas"
4. "Taking You With Me"
5. "The Angles of Sleep"
6. "A Cunning Latch"
7. "Spooky"
8. "The Great Escape"
9. "Running Water"
10. "You Can't Win"
11. "Isn't That The Way"
12. "On Our Hands"
13. "Pastime"
14. "In The Manner of Anne Frank"
15. "Hidden Track"

Side 1

1. "Your Own Cloud"
2. "San Andreas"
3. "Skinny Glasses Girl"
4. "When You Crashed"
5. "You Can't Win"
6. "Running Water"
7. "A Cunning Latch"

Side 2

1. "The Great Escape"
2. "Isn't That The Way"
3. "Taking You With Me"
4. "On Our Hands"
5. "The Angles of Sleep"
6. "Pastime"
7. "In The Manner of Anne Frank"