Summer of the Shark

Portastatic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B00008O34V
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,746 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Oh Come Down

2. In the Lines

3. Windy Village

4. Through a Rainy Lens

5. Don't Disappear

6. Swimming Through Tires

7. Chesapeake

8. Noisy Night

9. Clay Cakes

10. Drill Me

11. Paratrooper

12. Hey Salty

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good CD by a very underrated songwriter, April 17, 2003

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Zachary E Topel "Zach" (Silver Spring, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Summer of the Shark (Audio CD)

This is the album where Portastatic officially became Mac McCaughan's "first" band and no longer a side-project, and it shows. Portastatic's first 3 CD releases were either very lowfi or experimental. And although I really liked all 3, it is nice to hear a Portastatic album that is "full-band". There are some definite stand-out tracks here (namely Oh Come Down, In the Lines, Chesapeake, Noisy Night). But seriously, is there ever a bad song on a McCaughan release? He's so consistent that he's actually been criticized for it. In my opinion, this is the best CD he has made this decade. So quit being cheap & pick this up.