Nerve Salad
Stop right there, plebeian. Don't applaud yourself for liking this album. as you're required to like this. Crusty, dreamy, sludgy, headache-inducing, feedback-drenched noise rock. Fantastic line-up of session players only solidifies this as a requirement. Don't even think about it. This is as stonery/sludgy/psychy as it's going to get. Makes bad things smell good.
Favorite track: Without.
Dumb Numbers is Australian songwriter Adam Harding, with Lou Barlow (Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr, Folk Implosion), Dale Crover (Melvins), Murph (Dinosaur Jr), Bobb Bruno (Best Coast) and others. Debut self-titled album was released 8/9/2013 on Joyful Noise Recordings. A limited edition run of 500 hand-numbered copies were pressed on marbled pink & purple vinyl, and SOLD OUT within a day. One in every 20 copies of the limited edition pressing included a photo print signed by David Lynch. These were prints from David Lynch's original photograph used for the front cover, which are hand-numbered and signed by Lynch himself, and randomly included inside the jacket of the limited edition vinyl.
credits
released August 9, 2013
1. Breaking The Split-Screen Barrier
Adam Harding - guitar, vocals
Bobb Bruno - bass
Chad Matheny - drums
2. Last Night I Had A Dream
Adam Harding - guitar, vocals
Lou Barlow - bass
Murph - drums
Chad Matheny - vocals
Adam Harding - guitar, vocals
Steve Patrick - bass
Dale Crover - drums
5. Redrum
Adam Harding - guitar, vocals
Lou Barlow - bass
Daniel Herring - guitar
Adam Robertson - drums
6. The Broken Promise
Adam Harding - piano, vocals
Tony Olsson - violin
Rich Ploucher - cello, viola
7. Evil Has Grown
Adam Harding - guitar, vocals
Bobb Bruno - bass
Murph - drums
8. Without
Adam Harding - guitar, vocals, buddha machines, field recordings
Bonnie Mercer - guitar
Steve Patrick - bass
Dale Crover - drums
9. Last Night I Fell In Love With The ☆s
Adam Harding - piano, percussion
Aniela Perry - cello
1, 2, 3, 7 recorded by Adam Harding at Ear Knife
4, 8 recorded by Toshi Kasai at Sound Of Sirens
5 recorded by Neil Thomason at Head Gap
Additional recording on 4, 8 by Steve Patrick at Bakehouse
6, 9 recorded by Adam Harding at home
1, 2 mixed by Bobb Bruno at Yeti's Lair
3 mixed by Neil Thomason at Head Gap
4, 5, 8 mixed by Toshi Kasai at Nephews Closet
6, 7, 9 mixed by Adam Harding at Ear Knife
Vocals on 6 mixed by John Neff
4, 8 produced by Deaf Nephews
5 produced by Dean Dirt
Mastered by Pete Lyman at Infrasonic
All songs by Adam Harding except 'Breaking The Split-Screen Barrier' by Kim Deal
Photography by David Lynch
Dedicated to the memory of Dean Turner
with love, gratitude and respect