Eleventh Dream Day returns with Since Grazed double album

After hearing Eleventh Dream Day's well-crafted Since Grazed recording, it seems like it was worth the five year wait.  

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It’s been a good five years since Eleventh Dream Day released their last record, Works For Tomorrow, and while good may be the wrong adjective to describe the time that has passed, tomorrow has indeed arrived with their new double album, Since Grazed (Comedy Minus One) out digitally today (Friday, April 2) with a gatefold double vinyl version due August 7th. Get a copy via Bandcamp right here.  

Where the last decade of EDD music has been defined by the work of a band honing their live roar in the studio, Since Grazed contemplates what isn’t there, and builds the songs from the bottom up, relying on long-lived friendships and trust. While Works barreled down the highway, conscious of and trying to outrace the past, Since Grazed takes the long way home, spacing out a bit, and reveling in the journey, celebrating those along for the ride. Not all have made it, but this is not a record about what is lost, it is about what is still there, however grazed it may be. 

You know the story by now. Boy meets girl in 1983 Louisville, Kentucky punk rock house rendezvous, start band, learn how to play on the fly, find like-minded types to make noise and follow the Econoline dream. An EP and Prairie School Freakout record on Amoeba Records get the word out, and next thing you know it’s Atlantic Records time times three with the orange, green, and white label spinning and the band on the run to every corner of the rock club universe. Band burns out, but doesn’t fade away. Why stop now? It’s too much fun. Put records out every once in a while as Freakwater and Tortoise forge new territory. 

And that’s the way it’s gone. 

Fourteen or sixteen records so far depending on how you count them. 

Watch Grant Nickson's bunny-enhanced animated clip for "Since Grazed" below.

The line-up for Since Grazed is now intact for consecutive albums, featuring Janet Bean (drums, vocals), Rick Rizzo (guitars, vocals), Douglas McCombs (acoustic and electric bass), Mark Greenberg (piano, organ, synthesizers, vocals, studio wizardry), and James Elkington (guitars, piano, synthesizers). 

With Nick Macri (bowed bass) and Peggy Rizzo (flute). 

Recorded and produced by Mark Greenberg at The Loft, Chicago.

Featuring members of Tortoise, Brokeback, Freakwater, The Coctails, Archer Prewitt, The Zincs, and Steve Gunn. 

Eleventh Dream Day – Since Grazed 

Side A

Since Grazed

Cracks in My Smile

Just Got Home (in Time to Say Goodbye)

Side B

Tyrian Purple

Yves Klein Blues

Nothing’s Ever Lost

Side C

Take Care

Matter

Look Out Below

Side D

A Case to Carry On

Wish Too Far

Every Time This Day It Rains