For about three years, when Ross isn't playing or writing with the Gaskets, he has been holed up in a basement somewhere with various borrowed laptops and copies of Garageband composing under the name Ballpoint Pens. For a long time, I've been wanting to go through all of his solo stuff that's been saved on my computer and gather the best of it together as one album. Going from Animal Collective-inspired folk to Sadé style soul ballads to full-on power pop, each song is a short, sweet little piece of musical inspiration. We've been talking about adapting one or more of them as Gaskets songs to play with the new band. I'm turning comments on, so feel free let us know which Ballpoint Pens songs you would like to hear transformed into Gaskets songs.
— Teddy

Download Ballpoint Pens - Calcutta (zip file)

Tracklist & Individual mp3 Downloads after the jump.