The fourth leg on the early emo table of
Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, and Cap'n Jazz,
Indian Summer's Giving Birth To Thunder
compiles their complete discography. Emo's
second wave crashed into the Bay Area in the
summer of 1994 in a rage-filled capsule of
quiet and loud, octave chords, angry sons,
Spock haircuts, and screaming. At the eye of
this pissed-for-the-hell-of-it storm were
Indian Summer. In the quartet's 12-month
existence they wrote ten songs, appeared on
a dozen singles and comps, and played over
100 gigs across the U.S. and Canada before
burning out, passing out, and moving out
of their Blue House in Oakland. Their
hand-screened aesthetic is replicated in
alarming detail in the accompanying by 24-
page book with detailed liner notes, flyers,
and miscellaneous propaganda