This is Secretly Canadian’s 100th release, finally stamped and shipped out on its 11-year
anniversary. But this isn’t a 11-years-of-Secretly-Canadian-budget-blow-out-back-pat. That
will likely happen with SC200, The Johnny Cougar Mellencomp. SC100 is more a suspended,
freeze-dried nugget of evolution from those humbled beginnings everyone has. For those
with a checklist of Hooiser Rock History, take note that Secretly Canadian is the first
Indiana label to issue 100 titles. Daydreams are good when thinking of who came before —
BRBQ, 700 West, Lamp, Solid Gold or Gulcher — and what they could’ve done if not for
being corn-holed by that cruel economy of scales or packing up and leaving the state for
brighter times. A few years past its inception, Secretly Canadian albums were never shrink-
wrapped, sleeping space doubled as office space and the website address was garbled syntax
of tildes and slashes unable to be translated over the phone.

All artists who issued recordings from SC01 (June Panic, Glory Hole) to SC99 (Swearing at
Motorists, Last Night Becomes This Morning) were up for inclusion to cover a song by a
label mate via the ol’ names-in-a-hat method. So step back a bit just a few years and settle
in or dust off those old SC albums to refresh with the originals. While the pre-SC100
discography is packed with Indiana heavies, there have been extended stays and shack-ups
in Bloomington by most of the SC roster, be it a few days, or monthly rates at the College
Inn, or even more permanent. No one wants to get hokey here, but this is a communal
gathering, a family jamboree where each takes a turn, fugs it up a smidge, and pays homage
to tourmates of past, or in some takes, to personal strangers. No need to rumble through
each track with my own gander, but it’s a gulp of life and worth every penny on this set to
hear the swagger yell as Nikki Sudden tears into June’s “See(ing) Double,” just like an
apparition of him strolling down Fourth Street, dressed like a million, and swiggin’ a sack at
2pm. You wouldn’t have seen that from the booth window, though Sudden did make his
way down to that corner late one night.

Nikki Sudden

See(ing) Double

Songs: Ohia

The Last Bandit

Suzanne Langille &

Loren MazzaCane Connors

Structure: Necessity

Early Day Miners

The Escape

Damien Jurado

Upstate

Dave Fischoff

Abilene

Danielson

Propaganda For A Comic Strip

June Panic

Fruitful Weekend

Ativin

Soft Evenings

Swearing At Motorists

Lungs For The Race

Havergal

Riding And Roaming

Racebannon

The Real Thing

Cornelius Boots

Clubber Lang

Jens Lekman

Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death

Marmoset

Sky Phenomenon

The Impossible Shapes

40 Years Of Our Family

The Panoply Academy

Birds

The Japonize Elephants

Highlight And Marginalia

CATALOG #:

SC100

RELEASE DATE:

APRIL 24, 2007

FORMAT:

CD

CD BOX LOT:

25 UNITS

GENRE:

ROCK

KEY MARKETS:

BLOOMINGTON (IN),

BERKELEY, CA, BOSTON, CHICAGO, FARGO,
INDIANAPOLIS, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA,
PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE

CD UPC:

656605010021

1. Various artists means a broad range of appeal to listeners.

2. Unique concept for compilation (ie: artists on label covering other artists on label)

3. Celebration of Secretly Canadian’s 100th release

4. Celebration of Secretly Canadian’s 11th Year Anniversary

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