Minus 5, The

This is another Minus 5 album. Now the eighth LP from the loose creative collective/serious drinking association helmed by wayfarer and musical enabler Scott McCaughey. This one is called Killingsworth. A recording worthy of the murders committed during its genesis? Perhaps. Incoherent yarns mostly told after midnight by highway hobos in and around Portland, Oregon? Surely. Killingsworth features an incarnation of The Minus 5 including apparatus support poles "McOi," Peter Buck and John Moen (Decemberists). Other gypsies in the carnival include The She Bee Gees, further Decemberists Colin Meloy, Jenny Conlee, Chris Funk, Nate Query and many more. Pedal steel belted radials drive throughout the gravelly fern-lined byways of the neighborhood of Killingsworth. Either ride along with the show or get out of the way of its careening wheel man, drunk with liquor and blood. Up to you, friend.

Dear December is a collection of 12 seasonal songs written by Scott McCaughey with a little help from his friends. Guests include Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie), M. Ward and Chuck Prophet. RSD exclusive LP package is a gatefold jacket with 12 cut-outs on front cover (think: Advent Calendar) and white vinyl. Single LP in gatefold jacket. Front panel/cover of the gatefold has the tree/ornament design w/ 12 cut-outs + there is a perforation along the spine, so fans can remove (if they dare!) this front panel of the gatefold package. The right panel inside the gatefold jacket will have the exact same artwork as the "tear-away" cover, so that if someone removes the cover, the album cover will remain the same - it will just be in a single sleeve jacket and the cover won't have the cut-outs. Left panel of inside gatefold (back of the cover w/ 12 cut-outs) will have lyrics.

Minus 5, The: Stroke Manor [Vinyl LP]

Minus 5, The: Down With Wilco [CD]