Minor Alps
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Studio album by Minor Alps (band) Juliana Hatfield Matthew Caws |
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| Released | October 29, 2013 |
| Recorded | Hoboken, New Jersey |
| Genre | Pop rock |
| Length | 40:05 |
| Label | Barsuk Records |
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| Metacritic | 81/100 |
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Get There is a studio album collaboration by American singer-songwriter Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws (lead singer of the band Nada Surf) under the band name Minor Alps. It was released on October 29, 2013 by Barsuk Records.
Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws, friends and infrequent collaborators since the early 1990s—they met at some Nada Surf shows—decided to form a band together and work on a project that is this resulting record.
The name of the band, Minor Alps, is a reference to the location of a cottage Caws' parents owned in France near Mont Ventoux. Caws described the mountain as a "minor alp" to a friend, and the expression stuck in his mind. "In the tradition of Iron Butterfly or Led Zeppelin, band names that contain contradictions, we chose Minor Alps—humble mountains," said Caws.
Hatfield and Caws co-wrote the record and sung on all of the songs together. They also played all of the instruments with the exception of drums and programming, which were supplied by Parker Kindred (Joan As Police Woman, Antony and the Johnsons, second Jeff Buckley record) and Chris Egan (Say Hi To Your Mom, Computer Magic, Solange). Egan used a Roland TR-909 drum machine from the late 1980s to provide percussion. The record was co-produced by Tom Beaujour, in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Photographer Tyler Coray took the photograph on the cover of the record. Design and layout by Derek Vander Griend.
The record was released by Barsuk in the United States, Ye Olde Records in the United Kingdom/European Union, Stop Start Records in Australia, Only in Dreams in Japan, and Inker in Brazil.
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