Album Notes

Album is a completely live recording done in the WKNC 88.1 studios in April 2009. Here's an early review of the unmastered copy of this record:

Were the world just, bands like Simple could take little blocks of 100-word adoaration (like this one) and cash them in for tour vans, hotel key cards and premier booking agents. As is, though, Chapel Hill's Simple is another of the town's sundry local-locked gems—blasting forward with a propulsive rhythm section and the hazy guitar lines and anxious ennui of vocalist Chip Smoak. It generally only shoots them as far as Rosemary and Franklin streets, though. A bit like American Music Club casting Superchunk as fishing bait, Simple's tunes are wiry but satisfying, the kind of eager songs that seem sung from notepads upon which the ink still dries.