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Daniel Johnston to release new studio LP
10 July 2001

Over the past two years, Austin based lo-fi pioneer and Jad Fair collaborator Daniel Johnston—who counts among his fans The Butthole Surfers, Sparklehorse, Yo La Tengo, and Sonic Youth—has been staging a bit of a comeback with new music, art exhibitions in the US and Europe, the release of a biography, and plans for a documentary film.
    In 1999 he released a very limited edition of a new studio album, Rejected Unknown. Produced by Brian Beattie (The Dead Milkmen, Glass Eye), Rejected Unknown was Johnston’s first full length since his 1993 major label debut Fun. The set has been available in limited supply from various outlets including Leicester, England’s Pickled Egg Records. This October will see wide distribution of the LP on New York indie Gammon Records, recently founded by folks from eMusic and Which? Records.
    The enhanced CD version of Rejected Unknown will include an animated video for the album track Devinare plus liner notes by journalist Irwin Chusid. Like the set’s packaging, the video features drawings by Johnston.
    Johnston’s music also appears on the Which? Records compilation Songs In The Key Of Z: The Curious Universe Of Outsider Music, released in 2000. | Daniel Johnston | | Daniel Johston on Which? Records | | Pickled Egg Records | | Davinare (full length RealVideo) | | Impossible Love (full length MP3) | | Girl Of My Dreams (MP3 excerpt) | | bio | | discography | | sample from Fun | | top of page |

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