The Envelope Sessions

Infobox Album
Name = The Envelope Sessions
Type = EP
Artist = ¡All-Time Quarterback!


Released = 1999
Recorded = June 3, 5, & 7, 1999
Genre = Indie rock
Length =
Label = Elsinor els 28
Producer = Ben Gibbard
Last album = "¡All-Time Quarterback! (EP)" (1999)
This album = "The Envelope Sessions" (1999)
Next album = "¡All-Time Quarterback!" (2002)

"The Envelope Sessions" is the second release from Ben Gibbard's solo project ¡All-Time Quarterback!. The tape was a limited release on Elsinor records and is now out of print. Tracks from this tape were later taken and put together with the "¡All-Time Quarterback!" EP and re-released by Barsuk records on the ¡All-Time Quarterback! "album". The tracks "Don't Touch the Tape," "Lullaby, Lullaby," "Dig It!" and "Stark Mobile" were excluded from the re-release.

Ben recorded these songs straight to walkman, accompanied only by a toy guitar. The track "Underwater!" went on to become a Death Cab For Cutie song, released on 7" inch as part of the Sub Pop Singles Club in March of 2000.

Track listing

# "Don't Touch the Tape"
# "Underwater!"
# "Sock Hop"
# "Lullaby, Lullaby"
# "Dig It!"
# "Cleveland"
# "Stark Mobile"
# "Factory Direct"
# "Empire State"

Credits

Ben Gibbard: Toy guitar, vocals.

"The Envelope Sessions" were written June 3rd-5th, & 7th 1999 and recorded live onto a Sony walkman.