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Phoebe Bridgers doesn’t write love songs as much as songs about the impact love can have on our lives, personalities, and priorities. Punisher, her fourth release and second solo album, is concerned with that subject. To say she writes about heartbreak is to undersell her blue wisdom, to say she writes about pain erases all the strange joy her music emanates. The arrival of Punisher cements Phoebe Bridgers as one of the most clever, tender and prolific songwriters of our era.
Bridgers is the rare artist with enough humor to deconstruct her own meteoric rise. Repeatedly praised by publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Pitchfork, The Fader, The Los Angeles Times and countless others, Bridgers herself is more interested in discussing topics on Twitter, deadpanning meditations on the humiliating process of being a person, she presents a sweetly funny flipside to the strikingly sad songs she writes. Fittingly, Punisher is fascinated with, and driven by, that kind of impossible tension. Whether it’s writing tweets or songs, Bridgers’s singular talent lies in bringing fierce curiosity to slimy and painful things, interrogating them until they yield up answers that are beautiful and absurd, or faithfully reporting the reality that, sometimes, they are neither.
Bridgers pulls together a formidable crew of guests, including the Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson and Conor Oberst as well as Nathaniel Walcott (of Bright Eyes), Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Jenny Lee Lindberg (of Warpaint), Blake Mills and Jim Keltner as well as her longtime bandmates Marshall Vore (drums), Harrison Whitford (guitar), Emily Retsas (bass) and Nick White (keys). The album was mixed by Mike Mogis, who also mixed Stranger In The Alps.
On the album’s epic, freewheeling closer, “I Know The End,” Bridgers orchestrates wails and horns, drums and electric guitar into a sumptuous doomsday swirl, culminating in her own final whispered roar. This is Punisher in a nutshell: devastating elegance punctuated by a moment of deeply campy self-awareness.
Phoebe Bridgers wrote her first song at age 11, spent her adolescence at open mic nights, and busked through her teenage years at farmers markets in her native Los Angeles. By age 20, she'd caught the ear of Ryan Adams, who listened to her perform her song "Killer" in his L.A. studio, inviting her to come back and record it there the next day. The session blossomed into the three-song ‘Killer’ EP, released to much acclaim on Adams’s Pax-Am label in 2015. In the two short years since, Bridgers has toured or played with Conor Oberst, Julien Baker, City and Colour, Violent Femmes, Mitski, Television and Blake Babies among others. On September 22nd, Phoebe Bridgers will release her debut full-length, Stranger In The Alps. From the weeping strings and Twin Peaks twangs of opening track Smoke Signals, to the simple heartbreak of Funeral and melancholic crescendo of Scott Street, Stranger in the Alps is a swooningly beautiful record with a gothic heart.
2LP set with 28 golden period classic hits including all his signature tunes in a fully authorized, high quality package
The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess (Anniversary Edition) [My Kink Is Coral 2LP]
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Charli XCX - BRAT - Pop LP
In Charli's words - "it's confrontational. it's confident. it's conversational. the lyrics are texts I would send to my friends. it's funny. it's fun. it's a club record so play it loud"
This is a Dance/Electronic album (Charli has worked with the likes of Gesaffelstein, Hudson Mohawke etc. on the music). This album will reinforce Charli as the most important British pop star out there.
"Newly Mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser. Produced for release by David Lemieux The first Arista Grateful Dead album, and the first studio album featuring an outside producer their debut album a decade earlier, Terrapin Station is one of the deepest, densest, most ambitious album in the entire Dead catalog. Arista president Clive Davis vowed to get the Dead a hit record (that would take another 10 years), so he paired the Dead with Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olson, and they created an album unlike anything they'd ever made before, filled with strings, horns, a choir, and countless other new sounds in the Dead world. And the songs...what a collection! Estimated Prophet, Samson and Delilah, Passenger, Dancing In The Street, and Donna Jean Godchaux's first lead vocal on a Dead album, Sunrise, make up Side 1. And Side 2 is the entire Terrapin Station suite, with many parts and twists and turns. Truly one of the most exciting sequences of music ever committed to vinyl by the Grateful Dead."
The Highwaymen - Live At Nassau Coliseum - Vinyl
The Highwaymen were American country music's first bonafide "supergroup." With each of the quartet's members--Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson-- The Highwaymen have been called "the Mt. Rushmore of Country music." Live at Nassau Coliseum features live classics such as "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," "Ring of Fire", "Me and Bobby McGee", and more.
Available for the first time on picture disc!
After promising to release only five studio albums under his own name, Simpson marks the
beginning of a new era with Johnny Blue Skies and the release of Passage Du Desir. Out July
12 on his own independent label, High Top Mountain Records, the album includes
eight songs produced by Johnny Blue Skies and David Ferguson and recorded at Clement House
Recording Studio in Nashville, TN and Abbey Road Studios in London, England.
Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it’s finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band. It’s a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin’s transportive sound toward a new sense of emotional directness, without losing the spirit of nomadic wandering that’s always defined it. And it all started with them coming home.
Laufey is Los Angeles-based singer, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist whose jazz songs are about young love and self-discovery. Raised between Reykjavik and Washington, D.C. with annual visits to Beijing, the Icelandic-Chinese artist grew up playing cello as well as piano and became hooked on the jazz standards of Ella Fitzgerald after digging through her father's record collection. Typical of Me is Laufey’s debut EP including her breakout single “Street by Street”.
I Met You When I Was 18, the debut compilation album from multi-Platinum chart-topping singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Lauv, celebrates its 5th Anniversary. The album features the global hit “I Like Me Better”, which earned platinum certification in seven countries (5X platinum in the US) and over 1 billion streams on Spotify. The compilation also features other hits including, “Paris In The Rain” and “The Other”.