Sometimes you find a recording artist you think is so cool, you can’t understand why more people haven’t heard of them already. You put them on all your mixtapes. You buy their record over and over again because you keep giving your personal copy away to friends. The Rare Coins Series was conceived to offer an established artist the opportunity to share one of their favorite artists with the rest of the world by way of a limited release split 12”.

As long time fans of all things in David Bazan’s orbit, 15 Passenger was overjoyed to bring him in for this inaugural Rare Coins release. And as discovering new talent is paramount to the series conceit, 15 Passenger has also become new fans of Sean Lane’s work and are honored to play a role in bringing his music to a wider audience.

David Bazan first met Sean Lane a decade ago while Sean was working at American Music in Seattle. Sean had given him an EP of a band he was playing in and Bazan was immediately struck by Sean’s percussion. A handful of years later, Sean caught Bazan’s attention again when he started recording and performing on an original instrument he built from the frame of a child’s bike; custom made bell cymbals, springs, flatwound guitar strings both plucked and bowed, and a plethora of effects pedals. 

Lane has played in Perfume Genius and Yppah, and is currently on tour with Bazan in his latest incarnation of Pedro The Lion.

Lane contributes five ambient pieces that feel like a soundtrack to a mysterious, foggy night along Puget Sound. Off kilter rhythms and supernatural synths drift beneath moaning saxophones and lonely chimes. On “Invisible”, Lane lends abstract vocals to express a yearning to disappear amongst the hectic routine of daily life.

The four songs provided by Bazan are playful, provocative, and reminiscent of a leaner rock and roll style found in Bazan’s earlier work with Pedro the Lion. His signature rhythm and melody is found all over these tunes, as he handled all the instrumentation himself. These songs are awesome, amongst the finest stuff he’s ever written. “Opposite Soul” is a muscular, brooding pop song that explores the fundamental differences between “us” and “us”  in today’s increasingly partisan world.

15 Passenger Records has released their first Rare Coins Series with David Bazan and Sean Lane, on April 6, 2018. Available on gold vinyl, limited to 1,000. Order it now here!

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Preorder Tim Kasher’s debut feature film, No Resolution, for $9.99 on iTunes for a chance to win a private screening of the film in your town with Tim*.

Invite some friends, make some popcorn and watch No Resolution with Tim at your favorite bar, theater or even on your couch! Tim will do his best not to nervously gesticulate the entire time as you quietly judge his work, and afterward he’ll play a short set for you and your friends (or just you! But hopefully not just you: that’s kind of weird).

But WAIT WAIT WAIT, there’s MORE. Maybe you didn’t win the weird, potentially uncomfortable prize of Tim encroaching your personal space (or, perhaps you don’t live in the continental United States): there will also be 5 RUNNER UP WINNERS who will receive a LIMITED EDITION BLU RAY of the film with unique artwork made by 15 Passenger, hand numbered and signed by Tim. There is currently no plan to make DVDs or Blu Rays of this movie, so these are truly limited indeed.

Entering is simple! Preorder the movie No Resolution on iTunes before it’s release date on Feb 13, 2018. Once you receive your receipt from iTunes please forward to info@15Passenger.com, and you are entered to win! We realize iTunes may not send the receipt until they deliver the movie, so please forward your iTunes receipt by end of day February 23rd. If you'd like to send a screenshot in the meantime, we will remind you to send us the receipt after release date if needed!

*Screening contest is limited to the continental United States.
*Blu-Ray contest is worldwide.

PRE-ORDER HERE

Tim Kasher – singer/guitarist for bands Cursive and The Good Life – will release his third solo album No Resolution on March 3, 2017 via 15 Passenger, the newly launched label owned and run by Cursive. The first song from the new album, “An Answer For Everything,” debuted today via CLRVYNT and is an alternately sweeping and cadent waltz marked by aching, orchestral crescendos. Of the song, Kasher said, “One of my favorite stories from the record, it’s about a couple reminiscing of the early days of their relationship when they felt so confident and self-assured, before so much doubt and uncertainty bogged down their ability to communicate.” Listen HERE
 
Tim Kasher debuted a second new song, “Break Me Open,” off his forthcoming third solo album No Resolution this morning via Stereogum. The track’s “…spare yet energetic guitar balladry bolstered by a string section” can also now be heard HERE!

No Resolution is now available for pre-order via the 15 Passenger website, iTunes and Amazon; “An Answer For Everything” will come as an instant grat download with all pre-orders. The album will also be released on blue with white splatter pattern vinyl for a limited run of 1,000, which will be available through the 15 Passenger Bandcamp store, records stores and at Kasher’s upcoming live shows. A clear with red and yellow splatter pattern vinyl version of No Resolution will be exclusive to independent record stores as well, also limited to a run of only 1,000.
 
Known for pushing musical boundaries throughout his career – whether he’s switching up sounds between his bands and solo LPs, crafting intricate concept albums (two of which – Cursive’s 2003 LP The Ugly Organ and 2012 LP I Am Gemini – featured play-like stage directions), or transforming songs originally conceived as a soundtrack for his self-penned screenplay into a standalone album (The Good Life’s 2007 release Help Wanted Nights) – No Resolution is the natural continuation of Kasher’s constantly evolving body of work. It is his most cinematic creation, a moving and cathartic collection of soundscapes that feels more like a suite of movements than a standard pop album, complete with instrumental breaks conjoining the nine songs. Fittingly, the 15 pieces will be featured in Kasher’s directorial debut film of the same name, which he also wrote, to be released later this year. Across the album’s strong story, the characters – an engaged couple on the brink of a break up – grapple with the specific and the broad, including the restlessness of adulthood and smothering external pressures; relationships in various states of transition and the walls built within them; distrust, indecision, and despair; and the existential anxiety that drives a deep need to leave a mark on the world.
 
No Resolution was written throughout 2013-15 and recorded at The Hobby Shop (with Andrew ‘mudrock’ Murdock) and at Kasher’s home in Los Angeles, CA, the Shape Shoppe in Chicago, IL (with Nick Broste), and at ARC Studios in Omaha, NE (with Ben Brodin). Filled with lush arrangements that include piano, vibraphone, organ, trumpet, synths, and various strings, the album is some of the most beautiful and finely orchestral music from Kasher, yet it is also his most subdued and understated work. A full track listing and cover artwork are below.
 
The album will be the first release from 15 Passenger, the new INgrooves-distributed label founded and run by the members of Cursive: Kasher, bassist Matt Maginn, and guitarist/vocalist Ted Stevens. In addition to No Resolution this winter, the label plans to reissue Cursive’s entire catalog beginning with their 1997 debut LP Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes and their 1998 LP The Storms of Early Summer: Semantics of Song in fall of 2017. More news on the label and its forthcoming releases will be announced soon.
 
Kasher will head to Europe in early March for a month-long tour (UK dates TBA) before coming home for a three-week run throughout the western U.S. All U.S. shows will be with a full band that includes cello, violin, and vibraphone. A current itinerary is below and more dates will be announced soon.

Tim Kasher tour dates: