CARISSA'S WIERD
A wise man once said, “sometimes you gotta say ‘what the fuck,’ make your move… saying ‘what the fuck’ brings freedom.” Carissa’s Wierd took those words to heart. Over the course of three studio albums and several cross-country tours, that WTF spirit informed their every move, yielding some of the most distinctive music to emerge from Seattle, anthologized for the first time on They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996–2003.
For a band that played so softly, Carissa’s Wierd generated a hell of a buzz. “We never intended to be as quiet as we were,” says co-founder Jenn Ghetto. The hushed volumes that became a stylistic trademark were one of the earliest outcomes of that WTF attitude. As teenagers in Tucson, AZ, Ghetto and Mat Brooke met at a Goth club. Soon they were writing songs together on twenty dollar guitars, plugged into cereal box-sized amplifiers—definitely not the kind that go to 11. They worked around their limitations. “All the early recording we ever did was in her moms’ closet on a cheap four track,” remembers Brooke. “We’d have to be quiet, because her Grandma was sleeping.”
The adolescent friends couldn’t afford a practice space to rock out in either. So when it came time to translate their homespun compositions and lo-fi recordings to a live setting, the intimacy remained—only now they were sharing bills with local hardcore bands. WTF indeed. Carissa’s Wierd may not have played as loud, hard and fast as their Tucson contemporaries, but they radiated intensity nevertheless.
Ghetto and Brooke left AZ behind, but not their devil-may-care attitude. Their first tour was a West Coast jaunt supporting Modest Mouse. The line-up was just Ghetto,…
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Carissa's Wierd - Tucson
SBL-73042 - Released: September 13, 2011
The first new recordings from Carissa’s Wierd in over 7 years. This 7" features two brand new songs from the seminal northwest band, both exclusive to this release. Recorded…
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Full Lengths
They'll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003
Ugly But Honest
You Should Be at Home Here
Songs About Leaving
Scrap Book
I Before E
Singles
You Should Be Hated Here b/w Suedehead (Morrissey)
Tucson
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- Cover - You Should Be at Home Here
- Cover - Songs About Leaving
