''I Hope Your Heart Is Not Brittle'' is

Portastatic Portastatic is an American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s as a solo project of Mac McCaughan, singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk. The project has since expanded into a full band, sometimes including Superchunk gui ...

's first studio album. It was released on

Merge Records Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expande ...

in 1993."Discogs.com"
/ref> It was also released in Japan with additional bonus tracks. These tracks are "Mute 1" which is the same as the Untitled hidden track on the US Merge release, "Replacement Parts" which is mislabeled, and is actually the song "Look Honey, Peaches" (available on the ''A Day in the Park'' compilation) and "Weighted Raft" (also available on the ''Ow!, Quit It'' 2x 7" compilation). According to Mac McCaughan, "Replacement Parts" was an unreleased song recorded for this album, but was not released until the compilation album, ''Some Small History'' (2008). All songs on the album were performed entirely by Mac McCaughan, except "Naked Pilsners" which features Jennifer Walker on bass and V vocals, and "Beer and Chocolate Bars" which features Kaye Woodward on vocals. The album was partially recorded at Duck Kee Studio in Mebane, North Carolina by Jerry Kee, and partially on a

Portastudio The TASCAM Portastudio was the first four-track recorder based on a standard compact audio cassette tape. The term ''portastudio'' is exclusive to TASCAM, though it is generally used to describe all self-contained cassette-based multitrack rec ...

4-track cassette recorder by Mac McCaughan.

Track listing

# "Mute 2" # "Polaroid" # "Gutter" # "Naked Pilseners" # "Tree Killer" # "Creeping Around" # "Weird Time" # "Silver Screw" # "Beer and Chocolate Bars" # "Had" # "Memphis" # "Receiver" # "Why Have You Come Back" # "The Main Thing" # "Untitled Bonus Track (Mute 1)"

Notes

{{Authority control 1994 debut albums Portastatic albums Merge Records albums