*Note: These records will begin shipping in late November

Word Salad is as witty as it is cutting, featuring Joe’s trademark brand of humorous, intelligent, folk-pop earworms. This time around we’re doing a clear 10” lathe cut version of the record cut on our two lathes, a 1937 Presto 6DSP and a 1947 Rek-O-Kut Challenger. In addition to the 10”, you can score a 7” featuring Joe’s contribution to the Mütter Museum benefit comp released in 2020, The Evolution of Disease, as well as a live bootleg of Dean’s Dream I made when I saw Joe in 2021 recorded using a 1988 PXL-2000 toy camera, straight to cassette. Here’s a neat tidbit of information: Joe originally recorded Evolution of Disease to be ON the Word Salad album, so it’s from the same recording session.

Here’s what Joe has to say about Word Salad:

I wrote and recorded the E.P. during the pandemic lockdown in the spring and early summer of 2020 and delivered it to This & That well before the election. For me the songs were a reflection of the events of the time. There was neither protest nor celebration.

Here’s information from the original listing:

Word Salad Track List:
1: Not Dumb
2: Bubbles
3: Puzzle Piece
4: Beautiful War
5: Say Their Names
6: COVID-19 SARS CoV-2

We initially were going to release this album cassette-only (Joe Jack loves tapes - this whole album was recorded straight to cassette!), but we thought, this is a new age, why punish folks who don't have tape decks? So there's also a digital option to purchase the entire EP as one sound file, ripped directly FROM a cassette! Includes a free download of Joe Jack's cover of Ogikubo Station's Take a Piece of All That's Good, found on the split we released with Strange Parts last year.