Handsome Western States is indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band Beulah

Beulah (band)

Beulah was an indie rock band from San Francisco, California, often associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company.-Early Years: 1996-1998:...

's debut album, released in 1997. The sound is much less polished and elaborate than later albums. The album went out of print in 1999 but was re-pressed with new artwork in 2002. The album was never released in Europe, however. Because of this, many of the band's European singles were pressed with songs from Handsome Western States as B-sides.

Track listing

1. "Maroon Bible" – 3:23
2. "Lay Low for the Letdown" – 3:32
3. "Disco: The Secretaries Blues" – 3:25
4. "The Rise and Fall or Our Hero's Reward" – 2:36
5. "I Love John, She Loves Paul" – 3:02
6. "Slo-Mo for the Masses" – 1:39
7. "I've Been Broken (I've Been Fixed)" – 2:25
8. "Queen of the Populists" – 2:24
9. "Shotgun Dedication" – 2:39
10. "Rust With Me" – 1:35
11. "Delta" – 4:17
12. "Dig the Subatomic Holdout #2" – 2:38