Compilation AlbumsApr 11, 2017
HAND DRAWN RECORDS’ ANALOG SESSIONS VOL. 2 AND THE TEXAS GENTLEMEN’S DEBUT ALBUM ON VINYL THIS APRIL "Analog Sessions, Vol. 2" by Hand Drawn Records // Available for FREE, Sat., April 22nd...
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Compilation AlbumsMay 26, 2016
HAND DRAWN RECORDS. A COMPILATION. VOLUME 5. Free Album: Featuring All Texas-based Artists --> CLICK HERE: FREE DOWNLOAD: WILL BEGIN AUTOMATICALLY <-- ...
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Compilation AlbumsMar 22, 2016
NEW RELEASES: A Compilation, Volume 5 Free Album: Releasing May 26, 2016, Featuring All Texas-based Artists Cover art: Pen & Ink + Digital by Dustin Blocker Our award-nominated,...
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Compilation AlbumsNov 22, 2015
Hand Drawn Records: "Analog Sessions, Volume 1., The Listening Party" November 10, 2015 at Midnight Rambler - All Photos Courtesy Honey Russell Photography - On November 10th, Hand Drawn...
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Andrew TinkerApr 15, 2015
Hand Drawn Records: a highlight reel “Hand Drawn Records is a full-service, artist-centric independent music company based in Dallas, Texas. We are a community of like-minded musicians and audiophiles...
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Andrew TinkerDec 28, 2014
2014 – Our Year In Pictures – This year was filled with the signing of new artists (Bad Mountain and The Screaming Thieves), a slew of live showcases, benefit shows, vinyl releases, music videos and...
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Andrew TinkerDec 9, 2014
A Compilation. Volume 4. The Holiday Record. Release Party at Spinster Records (12/4/14) Photos by Brooke Adams Photography Last week we celebrated our first-ever Christmas compilation with a...
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Andrew TinkerDec 3, 2014
CHRISTMAS MUSIC: RECORDED LIVE AT BIG ACRE SOUND Hand Drawn Records: A Compilation. Volume 4. The Holiday Record. – Photos by James Villa – When one of the bands slated to record at Big Acre dropped...
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HAND DRAWN RECORDS. A COMPILATION. VOLUME 3.
PRESS:
Nominated “Best Compilation” –DALLAS OBSERVER MUSIC AWARDS 2014
“…Volume 3, manages to take you in several intriguing directions…” –FORT WORTH WEEKLY
Hand Drawn Records’ Volume 3
“For its third compilation of tunes by (mostly) North Texas artists, the Dallas/Oklahoma City-based labelHand Drawn Records decided to keep things unified and organic. Hand Drawn invited a select group of artists into a studio in Copper Canyon, Texas, for a two-day session, requesting only that they keep the arrangements simple, spare, and free from overdubs. The result is a striking showcase of musicianship and songwriting skills, many tracks belonging to regulars in the Fort Worth scene.
Fort Worth’s Bad Mountain opens the collection with a slice of Appalachian funk. In the baroque country stomper “Tell Me Mama,” frontman Jesse Anderson growls and wails like a meth-head in the moonlight. (That’s a compliment, by the way.) Gollay, a.k.a. Fort Worth singer-songwriter and Un Chien guitarist Rachel Gollay, delivers “Built for Love,” a somber and thoughtful warning. Her voice gorgeously aloof and aching at the same time, she laments, “I don’t think he’s built for love” with a precision and restraint barely holding back a tsunami of heartbreak. Gollay sings harmony with Un Chien frontman Stephen Beatty on Un Chien’s “The Way She Goes,” a similar hard-learned love lesson (this time about a girl) with an acoustic rhythm guitar line that has the delicate, haunting quality of glass fibers being strummed. (Reverb and echo effects are the only major sonic sweeteners that pop up throughout Volume 3.)
Joey and Matt Swindle of Fort Worth’s Swindle Boys take full advantage of reverb on their art-rock workout “The Stranger,” in which electric guitars gather and billow like storm clouds while Joey earnestly intones, “The stranger will love you” like some ancient prophecy. Singer-songwriter and Un Chien bassist Taylor Craig Mills turns wry with “War of Words,” a kind of satirical deconstruction of the cowboy myth, with Mills singing in a self-serious baritone, “Don’t you like this smile? / It’s cracked as your heart was wild / Don’t you like this swagger?”
It turns into a lament for the doomed nature of all masculine poses, and, like the rest of Volume 3, manages to take you in several intriguing directions over the course of one tune.” –– Jimmy Fowler