''I Stumble as the Crow Flies'' is the first EP by the American

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band

Reptile House Reptile House was an 1980s American punk band from the Baltimore's music scene. The band included Daniel Higgs, later of Lungfish, guitarists Alex Layne, Asa Osborne and Joe Goldsborough, bass players David Rhodes and Leigh Panlilio, as wel ...

. It was released in November 1985 through

Dischord Records Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release ''Minor Disturbance'' by their band The Teen Idle ...

with the catalog number DIS 15.75 01. Drummer

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has likened the sound of the EP to the San Francisco punk/noise rock band Flipper, due to its mid-tempo rhythms and, noisy, jam-session sound. All songs were composed by Reptile House, with vocalist Daniel V. Strasser (later known as Daniel Higgs) writing the lyrics. ''I Stumble as the Crow Flies'' has never been released on CD, but in 2010, producer

Ian Mackaye Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (; born April 16, 1962) is an American musician. Active since 1979, he is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label and the frontman of hardcore punk ...

and London May got together to re-issue the EP for its 25th anniversary. The re-issue was released on November 8, 2010.

Track listing

Personnel

* Daniel V. Strasser – lead vocals * Joe Goldsborough – guitar * Leigh Panlilio – bass *

– drums Production *

– producer *

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– engineer * Annie S., C. Jakab, D. McPherson – photography

References

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