DRIVEWAY CEILING
Death of the Walden Newspaper Co.

A fictional newspaper in every copy pushes the album's concept past the grooves and rewards the kind of attention collectors already give their records.

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The band never planned a physical release. Colin Walsh says the closest they came was "some CDs we burned and sent out with our merch." Then Bruce Licher, who founded Independent Project Records in 1980 and still prints much of its packaging on a letterpress, ran into them by chance. According to the label, he was listening to another band when YouTube recommendations led him to Driveway Ceiling. He first reached out just to say he liked what they were doing, and the pressing grew from there.

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IPR is known for hand-printed covers for bands including Camper Van Beethoven and Stereolab, and Licher and Jeffrey Clark relaunched the label in 2020. A label built on craft was a natural home for a record that wanted to be an object.

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