Family Dynamics - Service (INDIE EXCLUSIVE, BLUE & GOLD MARBLE VINYL) |

An archival release of this head-scratching 2010 recording made by members of the freshly disintegrated Stars Like Fleas (called “NY’s most sublime and continuously undiscovered band” by PAPER Magazine): an amalgam of private press new age, electro-acoustic improvisation, goth-adjacent 80s DIY cassette culture, Italian prog rock, and community choirs.

From 2009-2011, Family Dynamics said what they had to say and then vanished, their members separately going on to celebrated musical careers of their own. The project emerged from the still smoldering ashes of volatile art-music collective Stars Like Fleas, one of the earliest and most polarizing bands to define the early aughts North Brooklyn music scene that produced Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, TV On The Radio, Liars and others who went on to enjoy broader appeal and success. Family Dynamics performed for barely two years before unceremoniously vanishing, without any widely available record or document. Whatever’s Clever is thrilled to (re)issue this buried treasure, self-recorded in a cabin in Woodstock, NY, at their creative peak, and never before issued in physical format.

RIYL: Tuxedomoon, early 80s Psychic TV, Jewelled Antler Collective, Robert Wyatt, early Animal Collective, Tower Recordings