Album Notes

Half Acre Day's second and latest full-length album,
Half Acre Day (set for release on March 1st, 2005), was
produced by the band and mixed and mastered by Martin
Feveyear (Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse).
The album is a continuation and an evolution of the distinct
sound they have honed over the years together: a
paradoxical pairing of darkness and light, of sophistication
and unrefined crudeness, of unbridled joy and deep
melancholy, often so tightly intertwined as to be
indistinguishable. Half Acre Day's music leans heavily on
the traditional rock framework, but is augmented with a mix
of stylistic influences that range from breezy pop to progrock bombast to rootsy jangles... and it works. As students of the form, Half Acre Day is devoted to songwriting, recording and making new music that is catchy as hell, often while keeping their collective tongue nestled snug in their collective cheek.

Their first full-length release, Primo de la Rocket Suit,was
greeted in 2002 with accolades from the Seattle music community, including KEXP's John Richards, who added the album to his Local Top 5 list, and stalwart Seattle indie
Barsuk Records, who spotlighted Primo de la Rocket Suit on their web site. Meanwhile, two of the songs were propelled to GarageBand.com's Top 50 Indie Rock Songs of All Time, with one of them, "Policemen and Planes," reaching number 5. In addition, a third song from the album was chosen from over 600 entrants as a winner of ModMusic Records' Indie Choice Awards, garnering a place on their annual compilation.