Emergency Index (LP)

IT'S FINALLY HERE!! The long awaited and highly anticipated debut record "Emergency Index" is now available in an edition of 300 copies. Mastered by Jessica Thompson with a lacquer cut by Well Made Music, and pressed at Gotta Groove Records. (Final product will look different than test)

These look and sound fantastic. Don't believe us? Just check out what Byron Coley (Forced Exposure/Spin Magazine/NY Rocker/etc.) has to say about all this:

"Who or what the fuck is an Ian St. George?
This is a question several people have managed to formulate recently, and while it would be possible for me to give a fairly precise answer...well, that sort of thing is for losers. And really, ISG is a human as well as a group, so why should anyone get hung up on the binary of objects being one or the other. As with so many things, ISG is one and the other.

We first ran into ISG (singular) when he was a snot-nosed tot who knew way too much about music. Capable of stumping FULL GROWN MEN in obscuro-rock trivia contests from the time he was still on the tit, ISG (singular) has haunted the record stores and venues of the Pioneer Valley his whole life. Of course, he has hit the road on occasion, and spent solid time living the life of Riley in Los Angeles, but we of Western Mass consider him one of our own.

ISG's music over the years has ranged from brutally experimental to squeaky clean, but usuaally falls somewhere in between these poles. While ISG (singular) has spent way too much time pondering the essential whatsis of fringe artists from Jandek to Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck, he also has an unapologetic attraction to what he calls “fuzzpop.” The keynotes of this more or less made-up genre involve the formal construction of lots of hooks and riffs (aka earworms). This may seem antithetical to a guy whose first performance was a series of croaks done under the name Gland Pageant, but hey -- consistency is the bugaboo of small minds.

Anyway, ISG (plural) on this new set of recordings includes Jeff Morkeski (Sore Eros/New Parents), James Walsh (Dump Him), Aaron Noble (many arcane projects) and Adam Langelotti (New Parents/Kurt Vile/Sore Eros). Of course, most of that has altered already, because well, THINGS CHANGE. But this set of ISG (plural) recordings is a kind of greatest hits package of tunes plucked from the air over the last seven years or so. Because while ISG (singular) likes to pose as though he's the bastard son of Sonic Boom, he's actually as committed to formal invention as Bob Pollard (or anyone). 
 Because hey, there's a time for formless jerking-off at the moon and there's a time to rip. 2024 seems like a time more suited to the latter than the former, but life has a way of curving back on itself in ways you don't expect. So the next missive by ISG (plural or singular) may well be menace of an entirely diff variety. Or not.

I mean, if you want predictable, get a dog.
If you want the full fledged confusion of human experience, get ISG.
Singular or plural, the choice is yours alone."
--Byron Coley