10 Songs

This pop gem has been buried in the rough since 1998, when Rafter put the finishing touches on his garage-built masterpiece and called it 10 Songs. At the time he was living in the infamous (and little-known) Go-Homes in downtown San Diego, an experimental living space inhabited at the time by a number of SD music luminaries. Pinback was busy recording their debut album in the same building, Rafter was recording a bunch of excellent bands in his garage, and all sorts of talented folk were within reach for a horn or string part when they were needed. Some simmering impulse in Rafter’s soul told him it was time to create an album of beauty, and so he went to work on ten luscious, wistful, sad and beautiful songs (after it was finished he suspected it was all to get the ladies to like him… ahh, the subconcious motivations of the human animal!).