A new update, after a long radio silence. The last four months have seen the world slowly but surely coming around to the brilliance of Heartbreak Scene. Check out this nice review from PopMatters.

The album’s been getting play on the CBC, and has been praised by such rock journalism luminaries as Douglas Wolk and Carl Wilson. Buy it on iTunes or direct from Fayettenam. If you get it from us, remember we’ll toss in a free mix CD, and a CD of Mark Szabo’s solo stuff if you ask for it.

Upcoming stuff: the Franklin Bruno singles comp, which we’re eternally excited about, and a comp of some of the best songs from the best 1990s cassette-only labels.   We’re also talking to a couple talented and underrated songwriters in the Bruno and Szabo mold. We’ll keep you posted…

Our first release is The Szabo Songbook by Heartbreak Scene. Mark Szabo is a brilliant songwriter living in Vancouver, B.C. He’s left-handed and plays his guitar upside down, which seems appropriate somehow when you hear his skewed, unexpectedly melodic songs. He put out a bunch of incredible and impossible to find cassettes and 7 inches in the 90s (both as a solo act and with his band Good Horsey). Then he stopped playing music.

Mark’s friend and sometime collaborator Marcy Emery liked Mark’s songs too much to let them languish on a bunch of crappy cassettes. She assembled a band, enlisted the help of New Pornographers/Tegan and Sara producer John Collins and Destroyer/New Pornographers genius Dan Bejar, and recorded eleven of Mark’s best songs. The results are as catchy and moving as they are idiosyncratic.