Sun City Girls: The Palm Leaves Of Victory/Audio Letter To Mitch Meyers (2LP, deluxe edition, indie exclusive) [THREE LOBED RECORDINGS]

Why you'll love it

These two homemade cassettes from 1986 to 1988 have never been on vinyl before, and Three Lobed pressed them once, about 1,000 copies, in a heavyweight gatefold with archival photos and an essay from James Toth. The Palm Leaves Of Victory is a live cabaret from The Metro in Phoenix; Audio Letter To Mitch Meyers was literally a tape the band mailed to a friend in New Orleans.

This edition

• 2LP set in a heavyweight Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket
• Remastered from the original sources
• Archival photos and a liner essay
• One-time pressing of about 1,000 copies

About the album

Between 1987 and 1990 Sun City Girls (brothers Alan and Richard Bishop and drummer Charles Gocher) had more ideas than any label could keep up with, so they started their own: Cloaven Cassettes, hand-dubbed tapes with photocopied covers, sold at gigs and through the post. Twenty-two titles came out that way, and more than half of them have never been reissued until now. Three Lobed Recordings is picking up where Eclipse Records left off in the 2000s, remastering them from the original sources.

The Palm Leaves Of Victory catches the trio live at The Metro in Phoenix in November 1986, wandering from the ominous "The Mystery Of Death" to "Porno Shop" with all the deadpan mischief they were famous for, plus three recordings from dens across the Sun Belt. Audio Letter To Mitch Meyers is a 1988 cassette sent to a friend, closing with a lopsided "The Look Of Love". Most bands send a postcard. These three sent an album.

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Out July 31, 2026 on Three Lobed Recordings (cat# LP-TLR-156X), first issued on cassette in 1987 and 1988.