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TRACK LISTING: SIDE A SIDE B 1. So Convinced 8. Smarter Hearts 2. Hello Hawk 9. Honey Bee 3. Cursed Mirror 10. June Showers 4. 1000 Pounds 11. Pulled Muscle 5. Good Dreams 12. Tiny Bombs 6. Low Branches 13. You Can Always Count on Me 7. Pink Clouds (In the Worst Way)

MRG 163 BONUS: TBA audio. To be included on CD & LP download coupon

In March of 1999, traveled to Electrical Audio Superchunk Studios in Chicago to record the tracks that would become

Come Pick Me Up. The addition of producer Jim O’Rourke allowed Superchunk to advance their sound with more experimentation, including horn and string accompaniments. Ken Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, and Bob (reissue) Weston provided the horn section (saxophone, trombone, and trumpet, respectively) while Fred Longberg-Holm and Suzanne Roberts contributed on cello and violin.

CD “It was exciting to work in the big room downstairs at Electrical. For part of our visit we also slept there, in the dark except for lights on all the gear blinking. It snowed a ton the day we got there, and I didn’t go outside for the first five or six days we were there,” Mac recalls. “I read an 180g LP interview where O’Rourke said we tried to make a two- month record in two weeks or something. I’m sure he’s right—we never wanted to spend the time or money mak- 10 July 2015 ing records the ‘proper’ way, but I like how this record came out, and it has some of my favorite songs of ours on it.” vinyl is non-returnable

Box Lot: CD is 30 / LP is 40 KEY NOTES & PAST PRESS: UPC: CD is 673855016320 / LP is 673855016313 • Remastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Services Format: CD is 4 panel wallet with booklet + bonus • LP includes coupon for full download + bonus audio TBA content dload card / LP is jacket & euro • Also available remastered & reissued by Superchunk: No Pocky sleeve+ 180g vinyl + full album & bonus for Kitty, , Foolish, Here’s Where the Strings Come dload code In, and File Under: Alternative • Non-Believers by Mac McCaughan to be released 4 May 2015 Export: World excluding North America