THE LINER NOTES

LABEL SPOTLIGHT:TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD

- May 14, 2024 -

“I have come to love working with Citizen. The quality is fantastic, the customer service is top-notch, communication is excellent, and the turnaround times have been ideal.” – Jeremy deVine

Temporary Residence Ltd. is a Brooklyn–based record label. It was started in Louisville, Kentucky in 1996, by Jeremy deVine, and initially concentrated on releasing music by Louisville-based bands. DeVine moved to Baltimore in the late 1990s to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art, but dropped out to run the label.

Recently, Temporary Residence had four projects pressed at Citizen Vinyl:  Fantasy World by Lilacs & Champagne, Foxy by Sparkle Division, Selene by Akira Kosemura & Lawrence English, and With Strings by June McDoom.

“In the early days, Temporary Residence started Travels in Constants, a mail-order CD EP series in which a rotating cast of artists — including Low, Mogwai and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy — would issue exclusive material,” reports Treble Zine. “And later on, the label would come to be a reliable outpost for powerful post-rock (Mono, Explosions in the Sky), soaring yet heavy bands (Envy, Coliseum, Young Widows) and a long list of artists that found a breathtaking middle ground between experimentalism and melody. It has since relocated to Brooklyn, but the label’s reach has expanded to scenes in Louisville, San Diego, Portland, and Japan.”