Releases

State Shirt - Let's Get Bloody
(2011)
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Let's Get Bloody, State Shirt's third full-length album (and final album to be released on CD), released on December 6, 2011.

It's a pattern of violence. Perhaps handed down from an angry and disillusioned father, or mother. Created by an environment of despair, a dead-end mill town, a drinking problem, an aimless future. One that drives a young girl to kill herself, a husband to beat his wife, or a mother to leave her newborn to die.

"It started with a close friend who had been abused and beaten for years, tried to kill herself and failed." State Shirt says. "I'm so glad she failed. But it made me realize that this cycle of violence gets passed down from those that hate where their lives have ended up."

When State Shirt began working on Let's Get Bloody, these desperate stories began to weave themselves through hand-built loops, cheap electronic keyboards, a dilapidated student drum kit, and the pickups of his pawn shop guitars. Though his fiery and emotive vocals, and intricate bedroom production, State Shirt develops a cohesive collection of infectious indie-tronic anthems that make us realize life shouldn't end with bloody hands.

Matthew Larsen and the Documents - Apheresis
(2011)
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Apheresis, Matthew Larsen and The Documents' debut 12 track CD lovingly recorded in studios, living rooms, and hallways in Massachusetts, New York, and California. Produced by Dave Chalfant (The Nields) and Ethan Tufts (State Shirt).

State Shirt - This Is Old
(2008)
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"DIY hand made folktronica that sounds as if Elbow got in a car crash with Folk Implosion and The Postal Service."

"The unobtrusive nature of all this permeates the haunting nature of this album and it makes it seem as if the the whole thing were created by loop loving ghosts."

"Melancholy and being stuck in a never ending routine has never sounded so good."

Squidlaunch - Live On WFMU 91.1 FM May 1995 - 7" record
(2007)
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"The pics therein reveal mohawked freaks bugging out on trombones and such and there's like 6 or 7 labels co-releasing this. Someone aptly said this was like the sound of Greg Ginn jamming out with Man is the Bastard and I couldn't be more in harmony with that. Since the time this happened it's been a bummer to see so many experimental hardcore kids just dropping the ball perhaps to do something less wild (perhaps to maintain health/sanity, so who can blame 'em; one of these guys is in the very fine Parts and Labor these days however), and while there is certainly a contingent to pick up that ball, I wish more would. In an ideal Bush world, every kid should be studying up on Mens Recovery Project and taking it to the streets, dammit. This thing is aggro freedom personified." - Brian Turner (WFMU)


State Shirt - Don't Die
(2004)
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"…the superb debut from the mysteriously-named State Shirt… Think ‘The Bends’-era Radiohead with the maverick touches of Beck thrown in for good measure."

"…incredibly imaginative production choices, including nods to hip-hop, surprising vocal interplay, ingeniously employed electronics, and always-engaging instrumentation."

"…lush, homemade production seals the sound in. Commendable."

"…a dreamlike trip through melodic tunes, quick beats and earnest vocals."


State Shirt - Straw Man EP
(2003)

State Shirt - New Planet EP
(2002)
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