Part Timer

Their earliest work was fully detailed on eight scant digital tracks by Josh Gennet of Holiday, who, as a friend, cannot be held responsible for the group’s relative myopia at the time. By the time they met with Kramer for a brief exchange in the winter of 1996, the ideas had advanced, but the fresh perspective afforded the group only enabled a breakthrough to new depths of doubt. It was not until Alister Parker of Bailter Space lent his genius to a revision of this work that Sunday Puncher felt public discussion to be necessary. An intense collaboration with Mr. Parker followed, producing the most significant output to date, a collection known as The Livid Eye. Touring the outlying states with Mr. Parker and his Bailterspace associates in 1997 provided a wealth of new stimuli, yet with the introduction of such scope and distance, solutions seemed more remote than ever before. A silence of almost a year ensued, broken in July 1998 by the deceptive assurance of the "Do-Over"/"Jury Duty" single, a baffling text to all but the closest conspirator, James Murphy, who previously recorded Six Finger Satellite, Evergreen, June of 44, Les Savy Fav, and others. Only the words scratched into the vinyl’s innermost edge offered a clue to the confusion within. Now, a more exhaustive document emerges, revealing new methods if not new conclusions.