Most tracks featured only an additional guitar overdub to compliment Smith’s fingerpicked acoustic and whisper-thin vocal delivery. Bouncing between Portland studios, some professional and some in friends’ basements, Smith gathered up thirteen acoustic tracks that could be recorded quickly after Heatmiser’s dissolution. The answer was by going on unemployment, recording in houses, and focusing on his songwriting. That quiet co-frontman already had two studio albums to his name, but he also had recently lost his job at a bakery.
Gust’s ‘Rest My Head Against the Wall’ and Smith’s ‘See You Later’ probably could have been hits on 120 Minutes, if not for the fact that Heatmiser imploded before the album even saw its release date.
That’s not because they had bad material – in fact, the band’s final album, 1996’s Mic City Sons, has fantastic tracks on it. They probably couldn’t have even been the next Silverchair. Could Heatmiser be the next Nirvana? No shot in hell.
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