Released on Skin Graft in 2000. Not a step forward from ENDURING THE AMERICAN DREAM, but not a step backward, either; more like a half-step sideways. It can be seen, if you like, as a tribute to Phil Bonnet, who died shortly after the final tracks for this album were recorded. A fine record whose sound is probably closest to that of NOT A FOOD. Don't be fooled by the wild diversity of recording dates, methods, and locations detailed in the notes below -- this album hangs together really well as a whole and integrated piece, remarkable given the far-flung nature of its performances.

Notes:

PHIL BONNET -- guitar
THYMME JONES -- drums, vocals, trumpet, moog, casio, harmonica
JEFF LIBERSHER -- guitar
DYLAN POSA -- bass, guitar, casio, microcassette, air organ
JEB BISHOP -- trombone on 5
JANIE BOUZEK -- vocals on 5
LISE GILLY -- flute and piccolo on 5
JOAN MORRONE -- french horn on 5

1) was recorded at electrical audio (in chicago) in may of '97 by tom zaluckyi and mixed at electrical audio in may of '99 by cheer-accident and steve albini
2) was recorded and mixed in thymme's apartment (in chicago) in april of '99
3) is a microcassette recording by jim drummond
4) is a live performance (st. louis 10/8/98) which was recorded by phil on his wollensak and that goes into another live performance (chicago 5/31/98) which was recorded at the beat kitchen by aadam jacobs
5) was recorded at solid sound (in hoffman estates) on 1/31/99 by phil

the overdubs were recorded at electrical audio in april of '99 by steve
it was mixed at electrical audio in may of '99 by cheer-accident and steve

all songs (c) 2000 cheer-accident
art by mark fischer

TRACKS:

1) Graphic Depression (Bonnet-Drummond-Jones-Libersher-Posa) (11:20)
2) Insomnia (Jones-Rutledge) (03:03)
3) Graphic Depression (Bonnet-Drummond-Jones-Libersher-Posa) (00:53)
4) Post-Premature (Bonnet-Jones-Libersher-Posa) (02:04)
5) Salad Days (Bonnet-Drummond-Libersher-Posa) (18:59)

LYRICS:

Graphic Depression

running from the fear of another depression
i fell in a crevice, a crack from a crag
i stumbled upon a fact now clear to me
inevitability is omnipresent
que sera will be

Insomnia

the unfulfilled purity
of regression goes to shit
in the infantile dawn
of tomorrow's predatory slumber