Codeine

Subpop's forgotten treasure, Codeine is a standout in its proto slowcore sonority. With their 1990 debut album, one would consider the band as its style predecessor; even the so called fathers of slowcore Galaxie 500 were not as innovative as Codeine, since they are one of the few bands not recreating a down tempo late-career Velvet Underground with a shoegazer attitude.

1990 Frigid Stars is their sludgy, slow-paced flow of dissonant guitar fuzz and sharp bass lines debut album: D, Gravel Bed, Second Chance and Cigarrete Machine are simply breath taking. Initially touring with David Grubbs' Bastro, the latter Gastr del Sol's frontman ended up playing piano and producing their 1992 album Barely Real, and playing guitar on the follow-up The White Birch - an undisputable masterpiece.

(1990) Frigid Stars / V0
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(1992) Barely Real / V0
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(1994) The White Birch / V0
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(1991) Bastro & Codeine - Music By / V0
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extra:
(1992) Demos / V0
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