Deep Wound broke up

Deep Wound broke up in mid-1984. Cosloy had dropped out of the University of Massachusetts Amherst to focus on running his independent record label, Homestead Records . He promised Mascis that if he were to make a record, Homestead would release it. Mascis wrote a number of songs by himself and showed them to Barlow, to whom he offered the bassist position. Barlow described the songs as “… fucking brilliant … They were so far beyond. I was still into two-chord songs and basic stuff like ‘I’m so sad.’ While I was really into my own little tragedy, J was operating in this whole other panorama.” Mascis enlisted vocalist Charlie Nakajima, also formerly of Deep Wound, and drummer Emmett Patrick Murphy (otherwise known as Murph) to complete the band. Mascis explained the concept behind the group as “ear-bleeding country”.