Emergency & I [SEP] record label
Emergency &amp; I
Emergency & I is the third album by American indie rock band The Dismemberment Plan, released in 1999 by DeSoto Records. It was produced by J. Robbins and Chad Clark. Reviews for the album were very favorable.
On January 11, 2011, Barsuk Records reissued the vinyl edition of "Emergency & I", which includes an oral history of the band conducted by The A.V. Club's Josh Modell.
Recording.
In 1998, The Dismemberment Plan signed a record deal with Interscope
EP for "The Ice of Boston" is the only item of theirs Interscope actually released during their tenure there. The band somehow managed to avoid being in debt to the label, effectively being able to record on a major label budget with no consequence. The band referred to their situation in a later interview as "slipping through the cracks".
Following the massive underground success of "Emergency & I", the band received an even higher profile after being invited to open for the European leg of Pearl Jam's