The Voyces

It Whispers (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in New York City, 2008 

Recorded at Lofish, NYC, and The Nowhere Zone, NYC

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineers: Bruce Driscoll, Alex Nizich

Brian Wurschum: vocals, drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards

Jude Kastle: backing vocals

This song marks the first and only time that a guitar solo was written and recorded in its first take.

“I heard the entire song in my head, so I just sat down and recorded the drum track first. No reference tracks of any kind, I just played the drums. I knew where the changes were. No one else knew the song so they all just kind of stood around and looked at each other while I did that.” 

“I’d spent a lot of time camping at this beautiful campground called Sycamore Canyon. And I’ve always heard Sycamore Canyon. It called out to me. There was music in those hills. When I was in New York, it was really calling to me. As if it literally had a voice. In fact, I could hear it all the way from the island of Manhattan.” - BW

Albums: Let Me Die In Southern California (2009); The Voyces (2024)

The Sinner and the Wind (Brian Wurschum)

Written in Newbury Park, California in 1995. 

(majority DOG version)

Recorded at Westworld, Van Nuys, California - 1995

Engineered and produced by Jaxon Merrill

Brian Wurschum: vocals, acoustic and electric guitars 

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

April Hoffman: vocals

Kevin Kirk: drums

(The Voyces version)

Recorded at Engine Room Audio, NYC - 2002

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Brian Wurschum: vocals, acoustic guitars

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

"Much of my childhood was spent in Las Vegas, and I've always been captivated by it. This was the first time Interstate 15 would show up in one of my songs. Some of my favorite lyrics that I ever wrote, particularly the part about slipping your soul in the slot of a machine. The version recorded by The Voyces was made after a proper recording session during the making of The Angels of Fun. We had the mics set up and it was late and we just went through it. I added the solos real quick and that was it. We were listening to a Mets game on a little AM radio I used to carry around with me so I could listen. In the full recording, the mics were left on when we finished playing and we turned up the radio and The Mets won the game and our excited reaction was recorded as well.” - BW

Albums: majority DOG - Nevada (1996), The Voyces - Timberville (2024)

Relate To Me (Brian Wurschum)

Written in 1993 in Newbury Park, California

Recorded in 1997 at The Greene Room in the San Fernando Valley.

Engineered and produced by Mark Greene

Brian Wurschum: vocals and acoustic guitar

Written quickly in 1993 in Newbury Park, California. It was during a 1998 performance in the same city that this song caught the attention of Chris Malloy, friend of musician Jack Johnson, who was not yet famous at that time. Malloy wanted to use the song in a film. By the time "Thicker Than Water" was released in 2002, Jack Johnson was on his way to becoming a global sensation. The soundtrack reached #21 on the Billboard chart, and the film itself has gone on to become a cult classic.

"I was invited to the film premiere in New York City. It was so exciting. I had never seen anything like that. It was in this beautiful, eloquent setting. Tons of people. Packed. Celebrities. Movie stars. Musicians. And famous surfers. Then, they play the movie on a huge screen. I don't know much about it, but about halfway through, there is like an emotional apex in the film. And during this, all the dialog stops and it's just my voice and my guitar. And a huge smile must have kidnapped my face. Well, I look around, and people are crying. One of the greatest experiences in my life. This short little song changed everything for us. People all over the world started listening to our music, and to this day, gratefully, they haven't stopped." - BW

Albums:  Zelig - Race You to the Sun (1998); Jack Johnson - Thicker Than Water (2003) ; The Voyces - Love Arcade (2005); The Voyces - Songs You Asked For (2024); The Voyces - Timberville (2024); The Voyces - Race You To The Sun (2024) 

Finest Hour (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in Newbury Park, California in 1995

(majority DOG version)

Recorded at Westworld, Van Nuys, California - 1995

Engineered and produced by Jaxon Merrill

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, keyboards

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

April Hoffman: vocals

Kevin Kirk: drums

(The Voyces version)

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers

Jude Kastle: vocals

Driven by a heavy guitar riff, this song was inspired musically by Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell" and The Eagles' "King of Hollywood". Written in 1995, it was recorded twice - in 1996, and again in 2009.

"I was growing up. Arrogant, cynical, and extremely sarcastic. And for the first time in my life, people close to me were dying. So, you know, I wrote some satanic funk." - BW

Albums: Nevada (1996); Let Me Die In Southern California (2009)

Race You To The Sun (Brian Wurschum)

Written in Newbury Park, California in 1997

Recorded in 1997 at The Greene Room in the San Fernando Valley

Engineered and produced by Mark Greene

Brian Wurschum: vocals and acoustic guitar

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

The title track to an acoustic album that was funded completely by two fans. 

“I sat down on the bench in front of my house and I just started playing and singing it as is. Songs spilled out of me daily for a while, because of a girl.” 

"One time, this older married couple saw us play somewhere and became really huge fans. As an anniversary gift to one another, these incredible people paid for us to record and mass produce a folk-type record. They accepted nothing in return. They just loved our music and wanted it available to the public. So we went to a very reputable studio somewhere in the San Fernando Valley. The record was made very quickly, in one or two days. As it turns out, this album would significantly shape my life. Sold thousands of copies of it in New York. That album paid my rent for years. I couldn't have stayed in New York otherwise." - BW

Albums: Zelig - Race You To The Sun (1998); The Voyces - Race You To The Sun (2024) 

Bye Bye (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in 2009 in New York City

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Jude Kastle: vocals

Brian Wurschum: guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, backing vocals

This song was never finished. The group ran out of recording money and then disbanded. 

It would prove to be the last song recorded by The Voyces for roughly fifteen years. 

 “I was thinking of Christine McVie. I was imagining ‘my precious love’ as being something she’d sing. This was when Fleetwood Mac was about as unhip as could be. I’ve always been in my own world in terms of what’s popular. I’ve always just tried to swim around in the sounds and emotions of my sweet, sunny 1970’s childhood.” - BW

Album: The Voyces (2024)
 

Top of My Lungs (B. Wurschum)

Written in 2002, in The Bronx, NYC

(Original Version)

Produced by Brian Wurschum on a Tascam analog 4-track

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

(Studio Version)

Recorded at Lofish, NYC - 2007

Produced by Brian Wurschum & Alex Nizich

Engineered by Alex Nizich, Bruce Driscoll, Diego Garrido

Mastered by Walter Fischbacher

Brian Wurschum: vocals, acoustic guitars, bass, drums, keyboards

Jude Kastle: vocals

Originally recorded on a Tascam analog 4-track machine, along with, You Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of Heaven, You Do Not See Me, Starlight, The Dance Floor's A Runway, The One Who Flies, Were You High That Day?, Postcard From the Bronx, Side Zero, and My Heart, My Home in The Bronx, New York, in 2002. 

Part of an entire album that was written and recorded in one weekend for a film starring Parker Posey that never got made.

"I was asked to come up with a whole soundtrack in forty-eight hours. I don't remember why there was this insane deadline. The movie sounded like it would have been awesome, but it never happened. The songs were easy to write and straight from my heart." - BW

Albums: Brian Wurschum - The Anorexic Demographic (2003); Let Me Die in Southern California (2009)

Durant Avenue (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1998, in Berkeley, California

Recorded at Engine Room Audio, NYC - 2002

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, keyboards, percussion

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

“A Simon & Garfunkel-inspired song, written quickly one morning, in the Fall of 1998, at a motel in Berkeley, California.” 

"The most vibrant, musically exciting, socially-active time in my life was also the loneliest. This track has always been hard for me to listen to because the lyrics fully expose my vulnerability at that time. Interesting for me to look back on it now. Stylistically, it was a very deliberate middle finger to the music being made at that time, in the 1990's." - BW

Albums: The Angels of Fun (2002); Love Arcade (2005)

Were You High That Day? (B. Wurschum) 

Written in 2002, in The Bronx, NYC

Recorded on a Tascam analog 4-track machine

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars

“I’d read that Steely Dan had an unreleased song called, ‘Were You Blind That Day’, which inspired the title of the song. The title came first.” 

Album: Timberville (2024)

The Angels of Fun (B. Wurschum)

Written in 2000 in New York City

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass 

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

Mike Benigno: drums

Billy White: lap steel 

Kenny Davidsen: additional backing vocals

“Flickering disillusionment. It was tongue and cheek, the whole gun thing, but I would say I was, in fact, depressed. Laurel was my singing partner but she was also the only real family I had. She believed in me. But the only time Laurel and I had any harmony was when we sang.” 

“Just your standard song about sordid sex, gambling, and suicidal ideation.”  

“The angels of fun denote gratification as opposed to true happiness.” - BW

The Album Cover:

“It was going to be a photograph of women dressed like angels. I rounded up some gorgeous women and there was a big photo shoot. One of them couldn’t make it so we tried it again another time and another one couldn’t make it. So we had these two photo shoots with six beautiful women. For reasons I don’t recall, I was just dead-set on there being seven angels so we didn’t use any the pictures (one was used for a promo CD). Finally, the album was going to be pressed and we needed a cover so I drew one real quick. After that, I became a surrealist artist.. Even had a showing in the East Village in 2003. If just one of those two models had shown up, a lot of things in my life would have been different.” -BW

Albums: The Angels of Fun (2002), Love Arcade (2005); Songs You Asked For (2024); The Voyces (2024)

Lie Down on Me (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1996 in Los Angeles, California

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, percussion, effects

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

 "I chased a representative from Mercury Records down Bleecker Street and bullied him into meeting us to discuss our band. We ended up recording a few songs with him and we did a version of this song that we never released.”

“I never was able to get it to sound the way I wanted it to. I was a terrible producer with a huge ego. Ruined a lot of opportunities by insisting I produced things.”  -BW

Album: The Angels of Fun (2002)

My Love, My Love (B. Wurschum)

Written in 2000 in New York City

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass 

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

Mike Benigno: drums

“People used to ask me all the time why my songs were so sad. I think I wrote this to shut some of them up.” - BW

Albums: The Angels of Fun (2002); Songs You Asked For (2024)

Rebby’s Song (B. Wurschum)

Written in 2000 in New York City

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion 

Diego Garrido: percussion

“I was trying to sound like Peter Gabriel.” 

“Another very wholesome-sounding song describing sex.” 

“A lot of my songs mention limbs.” - BW

Album: The Angels of Fun (2002)

Daydream (Do You Know?) (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1996 in Newbury Park, California

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass 

Laurel Hoffman: backing vocals

Mike Benigno: drums

Kenny Davidsen: piano, backing vocals

“I remember very deliberately writing songs with strumming patterns that were uncommon at the time. I did not embrace 90’s music, I resented and rejected it. So my band was like a destitute man’s Electric Light Orchestra.” 

“Another vulgar lyric disguised in gentle sounds.”  -BW

Album: The Angels of Fun (2002)

Tangerine (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1995 in Newbury Park, California

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass 

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

Mike Benigno: drums

“I was sitting at a coffee shop called Cafe Aroma. I overheard someone say, ‘room for cream,’ and I remember it being the first time I heard anyone say that. I was wearing orange and green, like it was the 1970’s. I was about as out-of-step with the music zeitgeist as a person could be, and really extremely sad about it.” 

“I wanted it to sound rhymically clunky, like ‘Touch of Grey’ by The Grateful Dead. I love the song, but like almost all of our recordings, I was never satisfied with the result. ”  -BW

Albums: The Angels of Fun (2002); Songs You Asked For (2024)

The Funniest Thing That I Know (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1996 in Newbury Park, California

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

“Judas Priest has a song called, ‘Before the Dawn,’ and it contains a guitar solo that comes in way too loudly. I was thinking about that when we recorded this.” 

“I was so ambitious in my twenties, but I had no idea what the hell I was doing. To me, recording-wise, this song is yet another noble failure.” - BW

Album: The Angels of Fun (2002)

Theatre of Laughter (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1993 in Newbury Park, California

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitar, bass

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

Mike Benigno: Drums

Kenny Davidsen: Piano

“This song is both parts four and five of a much longer piece, which we sadly never fully recorded. I dislike this particular recording so much that I can’t listen to it. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking, with the strings and all those other effects. Despite this, the song itself used to absolutely kill when we played it live. It brought the house down every single time.” - BW

Album: The Angels of Fun (2002)

Turn Around and Run Away (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1999 somewhere in New Mexico

Recorded at Soundbox Studios, NYC - 2002

Produced by Brian Wurschum and Diego Garrido

Engineered by Diego Garrido

Mastered by Mark Christiansen at Engine Room Audio, NYC

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitar, bass, piano, comb

Laurel Hoffman: vocals

Mike Benigno: Drums

“I wrote this on an Amtrak on my way back to New York after visiting California for the holidays. It’s a love song, except the narrator tells the woman to trust her intuition and run like hell. I really loved the idea of writing a really catchy song with deranged lyrics. And there I am again with the skirts and the long limbs.” 

Albums: The Angels of Fun (2002); Songs You Asked For (2024)

Gold Wine (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in New York City, 2008

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, synthesizers

Jude Kastle: vocals

"This was part of a much longer song that we never recorded." 

“For me, it’s the muffled din of New York City, that fades into a glorious vision of lying in the Southern California sun, which is abruptly interrupted by an alarm clock.” 

“I have another song, “The Swirling World”, which references gold wine. Gold wine is just beer.” -BW

Album: Let Me Die In Southern California

Let Me Die in Southern California (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in New York City, 2008

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers

Jude Kastle: vocals

"I'm really proud of those lyrics. I remember I was walking around Manhattan with a notepad and pen. Singing to myself. I was stuck on one line. Trying this, trying that. Finally, it came to me. I leaned against a building and wrote it down and stared at the words. I had chills. It felt euphoric. 'That's it, that's it!' It was the final piece of the puzzle. It was the line about the pools." 

“I wanted a Don Henley drum-fill, just like at the end of, ‘New Kid In Town.’ So I do it, like fifty times, in my dramatic, overindulgent, Aries fashion” -BW

Album: Let Me Die In Southern California

King of Castle (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in Newbury Park, California in 1989

(majority DOG version)

Recorded at A.C.E. Studios in Newbury Park, California - 1993

Produced by majority DOG

Engineered by Mark Roum

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, mandolin, keyboards

Scott Swanson: bass

Jason Dalbey: drums

(The Voyces version)

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Jude Kastle: vocals

Brian Wurschum: backing vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keyboards

“This was the first song I wrote once I got sober. Afraid of life. Afraid of myself. Afraid of not drinking. Afraid of failing. Afraid of God. Afraid of the absence of God. I was a mess. The song flowed out all at once. It helped for a minute.”

"I remember when the line, love breeds moon and ocean, love breeds peace of mind, came out of me. It was the moment where I first thought maybe I could do this. Music.” 

“I had a book about Disneyland. There was a picture of Walt Disney walking under Sleeping Beauty’s castle. I used to stare at that photo and think about dreams and their powers. That’s where the song got its name.” -BW

Albums: majority DOG - Mr Night (1994); The Voyces - Let Me Die In Southern California (2009)

If I Am Not Your Everything, Baby I’m Not Anything (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in New York City, 2008

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards

Jude Kastle: vocals

“I remember walking around the streets of New York City, composing this song, singing it aloud with tears streaming down my face. I was looking at people, noticing no one else in the city was walking around crying.  Am I the only one who feels anything? - BW

Album: Let Me Die In Southern California (2009)

La Lomita (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in Newbury Park, California in 1989

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Brian Wurschum: guitar

La Lomita means “little hill” in Spanish. 

Written while sitting on a hill overlooking my hometown of Newbury Park, California.

“I’d just gotten sober when I wrote this. It originally had lyrics about wanting to be an oak tree instead of a weed. I sang it to someone and they didn’t react as if it were any good so I never sang it again. I was very insecure.” 

“This was recorded on January 15th, 2009. I know this because while we were going through one of the takes, Sully Sullenberger famously averted disaster by landing an airplane in the Hudson River, which was right outside the studio. The landing was loud, so, obviously, we couldn’t use that particular take.” -BW

Albums: Let Me Die In Southern California (2009); The Voyces (2024)

You Can Never Know (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in New York City in 2007-2008

Recorded at Lofish, NYC, and The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll and Alex Nizich

Mastered by Joe LaPorta at The Lodge, NYC

Brian Wurschum: guitars, bass, piano, drums, keyboards

Jude Kastle: vocals

“The first time we performed this live, a huge, burly, tough-looking man walked up to the edge of the stage and just stood there and openly wept throughout the song’s entirety. I don’t think he missed a show after that.” 

“I read a review that complained that our voices were autotuned. I took that as a big compliment, because they're not.” -BW

Albums: Let Me Die In Southern California (2009); Songs You Asked For (2024)

The Speed of Fear (Brian Wurschum) 

Written in Newbury Park, California, in 1998

Recorded at Lofish, NYC, and The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll and Alex Nizich

Mastered by Joe LaPorta at The Lodge, NYC

Brian Wurschum: guitars, bass, piano, drums, keyboards

Jude Kastle: vocals

“A convoluted word-puzzle about how much fear sucks.”

“This one contains an esoteric reference to sex powers.” - BW

Album: Let Me Die In Southern California (2009)

It Never Just Goes (B. Wurschum)

Written in Connecticut in 2008

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Jude Kastle: vocals

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, synthesizers

Eric Puente: drums

"Real love can't be destroyed. In fact, it’s forced to travel." 

“I wanted to make a music video for (It Never Just Goes). For some reason I envisioned us singing it in falling snow wearing big fur coats. We went to thrift stores to look for the right clothes but we never found them. Looking back, that was probably a good thing.” 

“One time, after one of our concerts, someone came up to me and asked if I’d really written all the lyrics. ‘Missing the kind of missing kissing brings is such a good line,’ she told me, ‘you should be playing much, much bigger places.’”  - BW

Albums: Let Me Die in Southern California (2009); Songs You Asked For (2024)

And the Trickling Sun (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1989 in Newbury Park, California

Recorded at The Nowhere Zone, NYC - 2009

Producers: Bruce Driscoll, Brian Wurschum

Engineered by Bruce Driscoll

Brian Wurschum: guitars, synthesizer

"I used to sit on this hill overlooking my town and play guitar until the sun went down. Every hour a church bell would ring and fill the city with its sound. I wanted to make an album that started with that bell. Then this song would go on for an entire hour, and the bell would go off again. It was called, ‘Grunion.’ My bandmates absolutely hated the idea, and we didn’t do it.”  

 “I really love Judas Priest. They were all over the place musically for a few years. They just tried all kinds of things. Their freethinking, fearless, original paths inspired me deeply. Their first album ends with an amazing, meditative instrumental called, ‘Caviar and Meths.’ The track only lasts a couple minutes, but I always wished it went on and on, for hours, unchanged. It just put me in a trance. This song has the same impact on my soul. I’d sit up on that hill and play it for a long time, serenading the sinking sun.” -BW 
 

Album: Let Me Die in Southern California (2009)

Kissing Like It’s Love (B. Wurschum)

Written in 2006 in NYC

Recorded at Lofish, NYC 

Produced by Brian Wurschum & Alex Nizich

Engineered by Alex Nizich, Bruce Driscoll, Diego Garrido

Mastered by Walter Fischbacher

Brian Wurschum: vocals, acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards

Jude Kastle: vocals

Steve Dawson: electric guitars

Eric Puente: Drums

Peter Dizozza: piano

The Kissing Like It’s Love album reached #7 on the Barnes and Noble overall sales charts, and #3 on B&N’s independent music sales charts. 

The band made a video for this song in 2007 filmed by Michael Burlingame. 

"Our distributor called our manager and asked who the hell we were. The sales just made no sense for an independent band." 

“It has such a great hook that no one noticed that the lyrics are vulgar. There’s a full-blown erection in there.” 

“I wrote this song as if it were a crossword puzzle. Okay, the word has to end with that letter. It needs to be this long. It was great fun writing that way. Lyrics of which I’m deeply proud.” - BW 

Albums: Kissing Like It’s Love (2007); Songs You Asked For (2024); The Voyces (2024)

Hair Up High (B. Wurschum)

Written in 1998 in Berkeley, California

Recorded at Lofish, NYC 

Produced by Brian Wurschum & Alex Nizich

Engineered by Alex Nizich, Bruce Driscoll

Mastered by Walter Fischbacher

Brian Wurschum: vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboards

Jude Kastle: vocals

Steve Dawson: electric guitars

Frank Carreno: bass

Eric Puente: Drums

"Steve (Dawson) would play these great solos on the spot. It was magical watching him." 

“There’s a brilliant song by Randy Newman called, ‘Marie’, where he describes her as having her hair piled up high. That’s how this song was conceived.” 

“The first time I ever saw anyone else perform one of my songs, it  was, ‘Hair Up High.’ Someone else part of the 1999 NYC Antifolk scene. It was beautiful.” - BW 

Album: Kissing Like It’s Love (2007)

You’re In Charge of Driving the Narcotics Trolley and You’re Doing an Excellent Job (B. Wurschum)

Written in 2002 in the Bronx, NY

Recorded at Lofish, NYC 

Produced by Brian Wurschum & Alex Nizich

Engineered by Alex Nizich

Mastered by Walter Fischbacher

Brian Wurschum: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums

Jude Kastle: vocals

Written for a Parker Posey movie that never got made. 

"Borchard park is a place I used to get loaded.”- BW 

Album: Kissing Like It’s Love (2007)