We ♥ FILMguerrero. Our friend John Askew has been running his label in Portland, OR for years now, and has released a ton of great music including the first couple Menomena albums along with fantastic albums by Tracker (polk is one of our favorite records EVER), Lackthereof, Norfolk & Western, etc. If Barsuk has a sibling label out there in the world, it's definitely FILMg, so we wanted to let you all know about the latest great release of theirs, coming this fall from Lackthereof:

Before Danny Seim started the acclaimed Portland, OR art rock trio Menomena (in which he drums impressively, and, along with Justin Harris and Brent Knopf, sings, writes, composes, arranges, deconstructs, and reassembles), he was the sole, prolific, and promotion-averse member of Lackthereof. Seim still finds time for making Lackthereof recordings, which, over the project's ten year history, have ranged from lo-fi to lush, acoustic to synthetic, poppy to noisy. a retrospective 1998-2008 contains the best of Seim's Lackthereof work, selected by him from among a decade of remarkable electronic beat experiments, lo-fi indie dub, simple acoustic soundscapes, challenging art pieces, and much more.

Sign up to notified when we have a pre-order available for this very limited-edition eco-friendly package that features 20 of Danny's original illustrations and lyric sheets here.

Lackthereof is the solo project of Danny Seim (who also plays drums in Menomena). Your anchor was performed entirely by Danny, and was recorded and mixed in his basement in Portland. Barsuk is stoked to release this collection of (not so very lo-fi) lo-fi gems, on CD (and via various digital music services) on July 22nd, and on beautiful white vinyl on September 2nd. The CD will be shipping sometime in the next few days, but the LP won't be ready until early September — however, if you pre-order the LP between now and release date (Sep. 2), you'll be given a single-use code to download the entire album as high-quality MP3 files, so you don't have to wait to hear the delicious tunes.

Just in: be sure to check out this crazy hypnotic recording of Lackthereof reading (and playing music) for the Daytrotter website.

Sample the upcoming Lackthereof album by downloading a free MP3 for the song last november (available here). In case you hadn't heard, Lackthereof is Danny from Menomena, and his new album, your anchor, will be in stores July 22nd (and available for pre-orders here very soon).

Danny Seim, drummer for Menomena and all-around nice guy, took his long-time project Lackthereof to a stage in Portland this past weekend for a rare performance. A short video from the performance (including a brief interview at the end) is up now on the Pampelmoose site — Danny's new album, your anchor, will be out on CD July 22nd (with the LP version out in early September).

Barsuk loves vinyl, and to prove it we'll be releasing a bunch of records on vinyl later this spring and summer, including:

• Steve Fisk & Benjamin Gibbard / kurt cobain about a son: original score : Out May 20 (limited edition hand-numbered double LP)
• Nada Surf / lucky : Out June 17
• Mates of State / re-arrange us : Out June 17
• Death Cab for Cutie / narrow stairs : Summer '08
• Lackthereof / your anchor : Summer '08
• Nada Surf retrospective vinyl box set : Late Summer '08 (details to come)

Danny Seim plays drums and sings in the band Menomena. He has also been making music under the name Lackthereof for a long time. Barsuk Records is honored to announce that we will be releasing the new Lackthereof record, entitled your anchor, this July.