Yellow Ostrich - The Mistress (CD)
- I Think U Are Great
- Whale
- Hate Me Soon
- Hold on
- Libraries
- Hahahaohhoho
- I'll Run
- Campaign
- Mary
- Slow Paddle
- Bread
- Fog
- Mary [Alternate] [Alternate Take]
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Indie Rock
- Catalog No.
- LP-BARK-120B
- Tracks
- 13
Vinyl LP pressing. Digital download includes 18 bonus tracks. Since songwriter and band-leader Alex Schaaf first uploaded The Mistress (at age 22) to Bandcamp as a free download at the beginning of the last decade, it has captivated listeners: the team at Barsuk (who reissued it within a few months of Schaaf's initial self-release); fans who fell under the hypnotic spell of standout track ""WHALE""; and a host of fellow musicians (notably including Moses Sumney, who included it on his short list of favorite albums of the 2010s, not to mention future Yellow Ostrich members Michael Tapper [Bishop Allen] and the great indie sideman and composer Jon Natchez [Beirut/The War on Drugs/David Byrne/St. Vincent/etc]). The 10th anniversary reissue of The Mistress at the start of the pandemic heralded something of a rebirth of the Yellow Ostrich moniker as the band went on to release a slew of new music over the past few years including their latest album Soft in 2021.
- I Think U Are Great
- Whale
- Hate Me Soon
- Hold on
- Libraries
- Hahahaohhoho
- I'll Run
- Campaign
- Mary
- Slow Paddle
- Bread
- Fog
- Mary [Alternate] [Alternate Take]
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Indie Rock
- Tracks
- 13
Barsuk Records is pleased to announce that Brooklyn, NY trio Yellow Ostrich has joined the Barsuk family. Their Barsuk debut, the Mistress, will be released nationally on August 16th, 2011. The focal point of Yellow Ostrich's magnificent debut the Mistress is Wisconsin native Alex Schaaf's voice. On the Mistress it gets looped and layered, stretched and manipulated; it's stacked up several high and, most often, it's used as an instrument, fleshing out the empty spaces in his bare, searching songs. The album was originally recorded (largely by Schaaf himself with occasional help from a few friends) and given very limited release online for free via his Bandcamp site before he hooked up with now-fulltime band mates Jon Natchez (bass, horns, vocals) and Michael Tapper (drums, vocals) in New York.
