Artist: Don Caballero
Title: American Don
Format: 3× Blue & Orchid Vinyl LP
Edition: Deluxe Edition, Indie Exclusive
Number of Tracks: 14
Release Date: 27 Mar - 2026
Record Label: Touch and Go Records
Genre: Rock - Alternative Rock
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Catalogue: TG419LP-C1
EAN: 0036172111930 /
Tracklisting: 1 - Fire Back About Your New Baby'S Sex The Peter | 2 - Criss Jazz | 3 - Haven'T Lived Afro Pop | 4 - You Drink A Lot Of Coffee For A Teenager | 5 - Ones All Over The Place | 6 - I Never Liked You | 7 - Details On How To Get Iceman On Your License Plate | 8 - A Lot Of People Tell Me I Have A Fake British Accent Lets Face It Pal, You Didn'T Need That Eye Surgery | 9 - Fire Back About Your New Baby'S Sex | 10 - Haven'T Lived Afro Pop | 11 - The Peter Criss Jazz | 12 - Ones All Over The Place | 13 - I Never Liked You | 14 - Details On How To Get Iceman On Your License Plate Let'S Face It Pal, You Didn'T Need That Eye Surgery
Release Notes: After finishing American Don with (Steve) Albini, we were nearing the peak of interpersonal tensions that would eventually wash us overboard. I (Eric) became convinced we lost the true essence of the songs in the recording process. It was not a unanimous decision to record with Steve. We wrote the album entirely on guitar loops and Team Storm & Stress wanted to go further in the studio with Pro Tools, which felt related to both what we were doing and where we were going. Steve had just finished building the magnificent A room at Electrical and Damon insisted we would record there for the drums. He never budged on it. As soon as we got there we realized all the songs, which were written in stacks of overdubs on our pedals, would only allow for mono guitar recordings. We worked around this by performing the songs to a single loop and overdubbing all the guitars later allowing for a full stereo field to match the glorious bombast of Steve’s drum recordings. This approach dramatically changed how we played. While it allowed for magic moments of improv (Peter Criss intro), once the album was done, it sounded bloated and the performances sluggish. With increasing certainty I was sure the sound of the Akai Headrush, and the tempos it set for Damon was the heartbeat of these songs. Ian agreed.