Barely Real: Vinyl LP TheSmile Libianca and Lizzy McAlpine

Libianca and Lizzy McAlpine

and creativity were in a class comparable only with Art Tatum or Oscar Peterson

With his singing partner Jess Sah Bi

reflecting the persistence of Bognanno’s incisive wit in the face of adversity

Barely Real: Vinyl LP TheSmile Libianca and Lizzy McAlpineAfter the scrapped Dessau sessions in 1992, Codeine returned with an EP of icy and effervescent tracks. Clocking in at a brisk 25 minutes, the six song 12 features drummer Chris Brokaws final recordings with the group, plus noisy guitar from Bitch Magnets Jon Fine and a solo piano arrangement from Bastros David Grubbs. Remastered from the original analog tapes and recreated in painstaking detail, Barely Real is the slowcore classic your therapist