BBsitters Club - Joel's Picks Vol. 2 Cassette Tape

BBsitters Club is a rock band based in Chicago that features Doug Kaplan and Charlie Olvera on guitar and vocals, Max Allison on bass, and Paul Birhanu on drums. As the label’s de-facto in-haus band, BBsitters Club satisfies Hausu Mountain co-founders Allison and Kaplan’s urge to remain connected to the rock and roll music they grew up loving and playing — far across the spectrum from the experimental electronics featured on the lion’s share of HausMo releases. A solid four years after the one-two-punch releases of BBsitters Club & Party, the band’s 2020 debut studio album, and Joel’s Pick’s Vol. 1, the first volume in a series of audience-recorded live takes from shows around Chicago, we find the BBs reviving the Joel’s Pick’s series with Vol. 2. Charged with the energy of a close-knit group of friends willing to follow along with each other’s most outlandish ideas both in composition and live performance, JPV2 offers us a bewildering yet always tongue-in-cheek palette of ideas cherry-picked and mashed together into amalgams that both embrace “rock traditions” and defy them with a cherubic grin. BBsitters Club’s amorphous compositions land somewhere between the world’s most baked prog band and a jamband that’s never content to lapse into wheel-spinning complacency. On JPV2, BBsitters Club cartwheel between eras and styles of rock music with abandon — a TV stuck flipping channels after your dad falls asleep with one leg on the remote. We encounter the elliptical dueling guitars and autumnal atmospheres of midwest emo / math rock, the gregarious stomp of electrified country rock, blues rock that has melted from ingesting one too many hallucinogens, and fried Devo-style art punk that breaches into the realms of ska before melting into free-form noise rock flecked with the bizarro imitative instrument tones of Kaplan’s MIDI guitar.

A1. Joel Reprise > Told Ya - 2023/08/10 - @ Cole's Bar A2. West of Your State - 2023/08/10 - @ Cole's Bar A3. Same As Before > Beef Pizza - 2023/08/10 - @ Cole's Bar A4. Party In My Chevy - 2019/07/26 - @ Cafe Mustache B1. Kandy Korn - 2019/10/25 - @ Cafe Mustache B2. Carl Blues > Joel - 2022/02/04 - @ Cole's Bar B3. Cutie Girls - 2022/02/04 - @ Cole's Bar B4. Dracula - 2019/06/17 - @ Sleeping Village

• Format Detail: Cassette, Yellow Tape With Black Imprints Packaged With A 4-Panel 2-Sided J-card
• Format: Cassette
• Genre: Rock