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A killer single on Slumberland and non-stop touring grabbed the attention of the indie-rock cognoscenti of the day, and, following a heated courtship involving both dinner AND dessert, Velocity Girl signed a contract on a car hood in Hoboken, New Jersey, making Sub Pop their home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1992 the band began work on their debut album, Copacetic, at Easley Studios - once home base to the Bar-Kays and other classic soul bands - in Memphis with Bob Weston (Volcano Suns, Shellac) at the helm, and then mixed the album with Weston in Chicago. While the album had strong songs - pop tunes like \"Audrey's Eyes,\" \"Pop Loser,\" and \"Living Well\" alongside ambitious explorations like \"Pretty Sister\" and \"Here Comes\" - the band had little experience with production and lacked the skills to \"drive the boat\" in the studio. As a result, the album turned out to be a rather stripped-down affair, lacking the lushness of their prior recordings. To the band's ear it was jarring, and they soon realized this wasn't the record they hoped to make. Bob Weston had done exactly what was asked of him and captured the sounds, but the band didn't do it's part to articulate a clear vision. But the band's slot in the studio was over, and Polvo had just showed up to work on their album, so off Velocity Girl went to shoot the video for \"Audrey's Eyes.\" Copacetic came out in 1993 and people seemed to like it just fine, but within the band there was a sense of disappointment to the point where most members couldn't stand to hear the record. Between then and now, the band learned a lot about recording, and Archie Moore developed a career in audio work, and the band finally decided to revisit Copacetic. After extensive digging, the 2\" tape reels appeared in Jim's ex-wife's mother's house, and in the spring of 2023 Archie began working on a remix. Song by song the new mixes emerged just as the band envisioned them. Soaring vocals from Sarah (who studied opera in college), chiming lead guitar, juicy fuzzed out rhythm guitars and clear pounding drums. The pop songs are much poppier. The sonic blasts are more powerful, and the record hangs together as a cohesive document that flows from song to song. The approach was not to make a 2024 sounding record but rather to go back to the 1992 mindset and create the record the band should have made then. The result, UltraCopacetic (Copacetic Remixed and Expanded), is an exciting alternate history of Copacetic. And, while they were at it, the band dug up and refreshed the rest of their studio material from the era: Ultracopacetic includes \"Warm\/Crawl\" from the Velocity Girl\/Tsunami split 7\", \"Creepy\" from the Crazy Town 7\", \"Stupid Thing\" from the Audrey's Eyes 7\", and the unreleased album outtake \"Even Die.\" Topping it all off is the band's complete five-song 1993 John Peel session, including two tracks that haven't been heard since the original broadcast. 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A killer single on Slumberland and non-stop touring grabbed the attention of the indie-rock cognoscenti, and soon after Velocity Girl signed a contract with Sub Pop on a car hood in Hoboken, New Jersey. After touring in support of their debut, Copacetic, the band spent the better part of a year coming up with a batch of songs for a second album. They had never worked that way before - having focused time, and a budget (from a label!), to make an album that wasn't a self-produced, punk-rock studio thing was a fresh experience. Having played their new material for months in the noisy style of Copacetic, the band found themselves excited about the tunes, but trying to move away from the scrappy, amateur vibe of their previous records. And their influences were a bit different this time around: less My Bloody Valentine and Wedding Present, more New Order. Somebody at Sub Pop connected the band with John Porter, the one-time Roxy Music member who had produced The Smiths, Billy Bragg, The Alarm, and a bunch of other 80's stuff. They met up on a tour stop in Los Angeles, at a Hamburger Hamlet. He agreed to produce the album, in a three-week session at Cue Studios in Falls Church, VA. He was exactly what the band needed: an editor, arranger, and taskmaster. As he mercilessly excised every unnecessarily repeated bar, the band realized they'd gravitated to a sound with cleaner lines, and almost entirely ditched the noisy guitar, no doubt influenced by Porter's presence. Velocity Girl was extremely happy with the results, and ¡Simpatico! #came out in June of 1994. This expanded reissue adds eight songs recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA, a few months after the album sessions. 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Velocity Girl, blessed with multiple gifted songwriters, particularly knew how to merge euphoric pop hooks with waves of noisy bliss and lovelorn melancholy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new compilation \"1989-1992\" covers the band's pre-Sub Pop years and shows that their skill with a tune was there from the beginning, across several line-up changes and numerous early releases. The all-time classic \"Forgotten Favorite\" is included, as is their debut single \"I Don't Care If You Go,\" featuring original vocalist Bridget Cross (later of Unrest). There are also crucial split single and compilation contributions, a few choice covers (Beat Happening, The Jam) and even a pair of unreleased tunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly remastered and featuring extensive liner notes by DC scene scholar John R. 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