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Hey Turdo​!​: Seven or So Unlikely Years of Tyler Trudeau

by The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, Women's Basketball, The Blowout! and more

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Hey Turdo!: Seven Unlikely Years of Tyler Trudeau is a CD-R Trudeau assembled and currently distributes as a promotional device.

All songs are recorded by the Tyler Trudeau Attempt unless otherwise noted.

This is the text from the note included in the packaging of the original CD-R:

"Hi! I’m Tyler Trudeau. I write three-minute pop songs about feeling bad. That, admittedly, is a generalization. But it’s a good place to start, yeah?

I’ve been playing in bands for years now, though I wouldn’t blame you if you haven’t heard ’em. That’s a shame, because some of those bands have been really good. But it’s not too late. I have one new album out now, with my band Women’s Basketball, and another one recorded and mastered, with my band The Tyler Trudeau Attempt, so this is a good time for us to get acquainted, really.

There’s a bunch of songs here, sampling from a handful of bands and several years of work. Here’s a historical summary, even though the tracklist here isn’t chronological:

I started out playing in punk bands, like a lot of (white, suburban-born) people. I was in a few before The Blowout!, but The Blowout! was the first where everything clicked. We played melodic skate punk and weren’t together for long. We recorded only one EP. The day after we finished it, the World Trade Center was destroyed. Incidentally.

By that point, I’d started recording by myself in my parents’ basement under the name The Tyler Trudeau Attempt. The idea was that the material was more introspective, more overtly wordy, but also rockin’. Gradually, I started doing proper studio recordings as the Attempt, and I recruited a couple college friends to help me play the songs live in 2003. We’ve put out a few CDs, had about 10 different members and gone through a few phases — beat group stuff, post-punk, powerpop, and these days I like to say we play chamber music written for a garage rock band . Our latest album is called Something, Anything Else. It’s unreleased at the moment.

In 2008, to practice writing melodies, I started recording three- or four-chord patterns onto my four-track, but within a few months, it got out of hand — I had actual songs, and the recordings sounded like a full band. So I called the band Women’s Basketball and put out a CD-R in 2009. Tweefort/February Records released a Women’s Basketball album, An Octopus, but Like, an Octopus with Massive Wings, and Junk, in January 2010.

There are some other lost jams from the vaults here. This seems like as good a time as any to de-vault ’em.

I hope there’s something in here that you enjoy. If so, say hello sometime. And thanks again.

Yours,
Tyler"

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released April 22, 2010

See individual tracks for credits. All songs written by Tyler Trudeau.

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