DIRTY FACES

Superamerican

The Dirty Faces thrive on contradiction as well as adversity. A series of personnel changes has seemingly only
made them a stronger, more creative and more dedicated band. They are fiercely loyal to Pittsburgh, yet their
guitar player lives in Brooklyn. Their live shows are noisy, messy affairs, but their albums contain surprising
moments of quiet lucidity. While they are equally influenced by both American and British art punk (The Fall,
Pere Ubu) and 1970's classic rock (Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top), along with (of course) a healthy admiration for the
primal rock of Iggy & the Stooges, AC/DC and everything hip hop, they manage to boil these influences down
into something at once recognizable yet wholly their own.

Originally founded in 1997 by singer T Glitter as a way to set his lyrics to his idea of what punk rock meant back
then, the band soon became known for their energetic, often confrontational live shows. Band lineups shifted,
but core members Tricky Powers and Glitter have remained constants. Their first album, Covered in Lime
(Rickety Records, 1998), was described by Index magazine as “classic Rust Belt punk, a frenzied take on drug use
and crumbling relationships in a city where everybody knows everybody.” The album made the Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette’s year-end Top Albums list. In 2002 the band released their second album—the less conventional, more
experimental More Lies (Rickety Records, 2002)—to favorable reviews, while the live shows maintained their
scary nature. “A reconfigured Dirty Faces swooped into New York recently and blazed through a set of new songs
with twin metal guitarists riffing practically the entire time. The unsuspecting audience left with jaws on the
ground.”—Pat Sullivan, Index magazine

After solidifying their lineup a week before entering the studio in fall 2003, Superamerican was recorded between
October 2003 and April 2005 by three different engineers in three US cities. Its 13 songs manage to span the wide
range of stylistic and emotional reference points of the Dirty Faces, from the spastic no wave of “Headlights” to
the quiet, Beat Happening-esque introspection of “High Holy Days” to the lighters-held-high stadium anthem
“Amplify (like a prayer).”

New Wicked Stepson • Nosedive • Bump • 1974 • Cleopatra • Connie/Commie •

Superamerican • A New Hope • Headlights • Stonewash • Drug Free America • High Holy Days • Amplify (Like a Prayer)

Dirty Faces “Superamerican”

on BRAH RECORDS, catalog no: JAGBR003

Release date: October 25, 2005

Format: CD

CD BOX LOT: 25 units

CD UPC: 656605420325

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1. Crazee Mmmmaaaaad Powers (Papa Crazee of Oakley Hall) plays organ on five songs on this release. Crazee
is a former member of New York art-punk-noise band Oneida.
2. In the fall, Dirty Faces will play a ten date North East tour in support of the record.
3. In the spring, Dirty Faces will play a ten date Southeastern tour in support of the record.
4. The Dirty Faces will play a number of regional weekend shows in addition to the two tours.
5. One of Brah Records first releases, a new imprint on the celebrated Jagjaguwar label.

An imprint of Jagjaguwar
www.jagjaguwar.com