SPIDER BAGS

“Someday Everything Will Be Fine” MERGE

Out now. Spider Bags is Dan McGee (DC Snipers), Rock Forbes, Steve Olivia and Gregg Levy, with guest performances by Patrick Stickles (Titus Andronicus) and Jack Yarber (the Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers). Four years after releasing their Merge debut, Frozen Letter, Spider Bags return with an LP that ascends to new levels of aural punch and perspective. Recorded in Memphis at Bunker Audio by Andrew McCalla, Someday Everything Will Be Fine leverages the limitations and glory of the Tascam 388, a vintage recording/mixing device that’s acquired a mythos via its association with legendary records by Dinosaur Jr. and others. Unlike the error-erasing editing software frontman Dan McGee has favored in the past, the Tascam’s charms are more immediate, and it has a visceral resonance all its own. Someday Everything Will Be Fine is about the importance of saying f**k it and dancing to a rock and roll record, an album only Spider Bags could make.