Pitchfork

Los Angeles' premiere indie nervous-pop trio are releasing their next full-length album, 7x7x7, over a leisurely two years. By the time all seven limited-edition, hand-numbered colored vinyl singles are in your greedy li'l hands we'll potentially have ignited World War III, The Sopranos and Sex and the City will have been supplanted with questionable spinoffs Uncle Junior's Place and It's Miranda's Boyfriend Steve's Show, and your future girl- or boyfriend will be bitching about the $16.50 service charge levied on those Strokes/Audioslave tickets. But Nostradamus never saw this comin'!

L.A.-based Tallboy Records will be peddling the first offering from 7x7x7 next month, with additional volumes to follow every three months until October 2004. Each volume in the series will be available either individually or as a subscription to include "special bonus items" (uh, like an ultra-rare copy of Bang! The Earth Is Round without a promo stamp?). Like Time-Life Books, each single will come quality guaranteed; unlike Time-Life Books, each will have unique artwork done by "various local artists and the band," according to the official Sugarplastic site. The first volume, featuring the cuts "Lullabye" and "Sins Can Swim Like This", will feature artwork from Los Angeles artist Celeste Moreno and scorched-butter vinyl.

The seven-part, fourteen-song project will overlap other Sugarplastic works in progress which include a second, nearly complete album with the inarguably fantastic title Will. In the meantime, Tallboy's Anna Borg cautions Sugarplastic fiends to subscribe early for the best shot at the ridiculously limited 7x7x7. "With only 300 per pressing," Borg admits, "We expect they will sell out almost as soon as they are announced."

7x7x7 will be welcomed into the world with a record-release party on April 30th at the Bigfoot Lodge, the preferred watering hole of all Los Angeles-based lumberjacks. Sugarplastic bassist and the man with perhaps the largest bass cabinet I have ever seen, Kiara Geller, will open the show with his own outfit, the aptly named Kiara Geller Band:

04-30 Los Angeles, CA - Bigfoot Lodge (7x7x7 release party)