Bricks (band)

Bricks were a band made started by Mac McCaughan, who founded Merge Records and the band Superchunk, while he was studying at Columbia University in New York City.^[1] McCaughan, along with Nashville-born singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell,^[2] Andrew Webster (later of the band Tsunami), and Josh Phillips, recorded at least 18 lo-fi songs between 1988 and 1990, which they released on a cassette and two 7" singles before disbanding. Their first single, "Girl With The Carrot Skin", was also made into a music video. Shot on super-8 film, it featured the band eating and playing with copious amounts of carrots.^[3]

Bricks' original sessions were later compiled on the 1992 CD A Microphone And A Box Of Dirt. The band reunited in 1994 and were recorded live by Bob Weston at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. for an appearance on Simple Machines' Working Holiday! compilation album. Two new songs appeared on one of Simple Machines Working Holiday! singles that same year.

Discography

• Winterspring cassette album (Merge Records, 1989)
• "The Girl With The Carrot Skin" 7" single (Merge Records, 1990)
• "The Getting Wet Part" 7" single (Merge Records, 1992)
• A Microphone And A Box Of Dirt compact disc compilation (Merge Records, 1992)
• Welcome To The Working Holiday Party 7" EP (Simple Machines, 1994)

Compilation appearances

• "You Shouldn't Have Smashed Your Guitar" on the Rows Of Teeth CD (Merge Records, 1994)
• "Girl With The Carrot Skin" (live) on the Working Holiday! double CD (Simple Machines, 1994)
• "History of Lies" on the Old Enough To Know Better 3-CD set (Merge Records, 2002)

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