Douglas Dulgarian of the band Tagabow launched his label project, Julia’s War Recordings, with its very first cassette release. The debut was a collaborative EP by friends Jake and Karly, released under their pseudonyms MJ Lenderman and Wednesday.
Wednesday and MJ Lenderman have announced a reissue of their 2021 collaborative EP “Guttering” via Julia’s War Recordings. The six-track project be available on vinyl for the first time on June 20th. Its cover of Greg Sage’s ‘Sacrifice (For Love)’ was later included on Wednesday’s 2022 covers LP “Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling ’Em Up”.
“Life is filled with a lot of events that don’t seem as initially important as they turn out to be,” Julia’s War label head Douglas Dulagrian said in a press release. “Sometimes, I’ll look back at a chance encounter or passing interaction years later and realize, ‘Wow, that event was the catalyst for all this change.’ Every journey begins with one step, sure, but I don’t think we ever really realize how much of a journey that little step will cause. It’s funny to think how much “Guttering” changed my life.
It’s a blessing that, for the past ten years, all my favourite bands have just been my friends, and even more of a blessing that, in the past four or five, they’re willing to work with me. I’m proud that this record was the first Julia’s War release four or five years ago. Crazy to think about that. And these days, all these years later, records like “Guttering” and many more have allowed the thing to grow into what it is today: a label of all my favourite bands, and it’s still just all my f*cking friends.
With both artists garnering rabid fanbases over the last four years, the release of this early collaborative EP demonstrates just how far the two have come and showcases the magical spark they had in those early days before the world was watching.
Each release is this little chapter in the book of it all. And that little guy on the cover is the first page.”
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