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The Neon Skyline is a creative leap for this already acclaimed artist.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526583259221,"sku":"045778747511","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/andy-shauf-neon-skyline-8433913.jpg?v=1779844206"},{"product_id":"andy-shauf-norm","title":"Andy Shauf - Norm","description":"Vinyl LP pressing housed in gatefold jacket. 2023 release. Hailed as \"a gifted storyteller\" (NPR Music) for 2016's The Party and 2020's The Neon Skyline, Andy Shauf writes albums that unfold like short fiction, full of colorful characters, fine details and a rich emotional depth. With Norm, however, Shauf has slyly deconstructed and reshaped the style for which he's been celebrated, elevating his songwriting with intricate layers and perspectives, challenging himself to find a new direction. Under the guise of an intoxicating collection of jazz-inflected romantic ballads, his storytelling has become decidedly more oblique, hinting at ominous situations and dark motivations.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526583521365,"sku":"045778781614","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/andy-shauf-norm-2023721.jpg?v=1779844206"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-aisles","title":"Angel Olsen - Aisles","description":"While spending time trying to conquer the audio of live-stream athome performances, I got better acquainted with my friend Adam McDaniel, an engineer and producer in Asheville, NC. Adam and I had known each other for years. When the band was a bit smaller I'd often rent his studio, Drop of Sun, for pre-recording \/ pre tour rehearsals. Summer 2020 was tough for many reasons. But Adam and his wife Emily opened their home to me and made it a safe space to create and let go. I had an idea to record some covers and bring some of the band into the mix, or add other players. I wanted to record 80's songs that I'd overheard walking the aisles at the grocery store, and I needed to laugh and have fun and be a little less serious about the recording process in general. I thought about completely changing some of the songs and turning them inside out. I'd heard \"Gloria\" by Laura Branigan for the first time at a family Christmas gathering and I was amazed at all the aunts who got up to dance. I imagined them all dancing and laughing in slow motion, and that's when I got the idea to slow the entire song down and try it out in this way. I felt that \"Safety Dance\" by Men Without Hats could be reinterpreted to be about this time of quarantine and the fear of being around anyone or having too much fun. It made me wonder, is it safe to laugh or dance or be free of it all for just a moment? 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On his new studio album 'Norm,' Andy Shauf's songwriting veers decidedly more oblique, hinting at sinister happenings and dark motivations. The result: an intoxicating collection of mellifluous melodies and beguiling lyrics. Levitating, synth-laden atmospherics drive Shauf's storytelling on 'Norm,' mixed by Neal Pogue (Tyler, the Creator).In 2016, 'The Party' catapulted Andy Shauf to indie notoriety, followed by 2020's 'The Neon Skyline' which landed Andy Shauf performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! And CBS This Morning: Saturday, a Polaris Prize nomination, and mentions on several best-of lists - among them, a track on Barack Obama's playlist and praise from Pitchfork, The Atlantic, Esquire, Stereogum, and more.\"A gifted singer-songwriter. 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It's not exactly a concept record or a John Hughes script for a Robert Altman film, but writing it was definitely a way for Shauf to get out of his own head. The Party will spawn no hangover regrets for it's creator, even if it's characters have more than a few. On it, awkward characters show up \"Early to the Party,\" dance in the living room (\"Martha Sways\"), and either reveal life-changing secrets (\"To You\") or try their hardest to reveal nothing at all (\"The Magician\"). Fuzzed-out guitars collide with string sections and dreamy synths, all draped over delicate piano, acoustic guitars and rainy-day drums. Oh, and clarinet. On Bearer of Bad News, Shauf started out with 100 songs and whittled it down to 11. This time, with a clearer vision and narrative construct in mind, he focused on 15 and cut it to 10. Brevity is key: these vignettes are rooted in classic pop songwriting, with shades of the Shins, Belle and Sebastian and Grandaddy seeping into Shauf's modern arrangements.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526583881813,"sku":"045778745616","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/andy-shauf-party-6782101.jpg?v=1779844149"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-big-time","title":"Angel Olsen - Big Time","description":"Double vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. Big Time is an album about the expansive power of new love, but this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss. During Olsen's process of coming to terms with her queerness and confronting the traumas that had been keeping her from fully accepting herself, she felt it was time to come out to her parents, a hurdle she'd been avoiding for some time. After that tearful but relieving conversation, she celebrated with her partner, their friends, oysters, and wine. Three days later, her father died; his funeral became the occasion for Olsen to introduce her partner to her family. Though she was fearful their presence as a newly out queer couple would be \"an additional symbol of loss,\" those days went peacefully, yet only two weeks later Olsen got the call that her mother was in the ER. Hospice came soon after, and a second funeral came quickly on the heels of the first. Another trip back to St. Louis, another grief to face, another deepening and intensification of this still-new love. 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Over the course of a year-and-a-half, Shauf had written more than 50 songs, and pared down this massive body of work, into a single album's worth of material, which became 2020's highly acclaimed The Neon Skyline album. These songs focused on a theme by intertwining the individual characters stories of a group of friends who gathered for one night at the same local bar. 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Her self-released debut EP, Strange Cacti, belied both that early period of discovery and her Midwestern roots.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526584307797,"sku":"656605224411","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/angel-olsen-burn-your-fire-for-no-witness-1500x1500.png?v=1780197203"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-forever-means","title":"Angel Olsen - Forever Means","description":"Last year's Big Time brought Angel Olsen to a deeper, truer sense of self than ever before. Borne from the twin stars of grief and love, the album delivered beautiful sense of certainty, the sure-footed sound of an artist fully, finally at home with herself. But within that wisdom comes the realization that there is no finish line, no destination or static end point to life while you're living it, and Forever Means collects songs from the Big Time sessions that hold this common theme. They are, in Olsen's words, \"in search of something else.\"\"I was somewhere traveling,\" says Olsen, \"stopped for a few days and wandering the city, and I was thinking 'what does 'forever' really mean? What are the things I'm seeking in friendship or love, and how can 'forever' be attainable if we're always changing?'\" Sitting with the reality of that entropy, Olsen realized \"maybe the secret to ongoing love is to embrace change as part of love itself, that forever must have something to do with playing, looking, constantly searching things out for yourself, never letting yourself think you're finished learning or exploring.\"'Forever'\", says Olsen, \"remains curious while trying also to be kind and honest.\"All this packs into the four precious songs that comprise Forever Means, songs from Olsen's roads traveled and the ones ahead. \"Nothing's free \/ like breaking free\" Olsen sings, comfortable with the costs of her clarity, her heart and voice fixed on the present, the future, the not-yet-known and the beautifully unknowable.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526584471637,"sku":"656605243412","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/angel-olsen-forever-means-2767454.jpg?v=1779844148"},{"product_id":"andy-shauf-wilds-translucent-blue","title":"Andy Shauf - Wilds - Translucent Blue","description":"Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. 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What are the things I'm seeking in friendship or love, and how can 'forever' be attainable if we're always changing?'\" Sitting with the reality of that entropy, Olsen realized \"maybe the secret to ongoing love is to embrace change as part of love itself, that forever must have something to do with playing, looking, constantly searching things out for yourself, never letting yourself think you're finished learning or exploring.\"'Forever'\", says Olsen, \"remains curious while trying also to be kind and honest.\"All this packs into the four precious songs that comprise Forever Means, songs from Olsen's roads traveled and the ones ahead. \"Nothing's free \/ like breaking free\" Olsen sings, comfortable with the costs of her clarity, her heart and voice fixed on the present, the future, the not-yet-known and the beautifully unknowable.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526584602709,"sku":"656605243436","price":20.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/angel-olsen-forever-means-baby-pink-2605312.jpg?v=1779844148"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-my-woman","title":"Angel Olsen - My Woman","description":"Vinyl LP pressing. Anyone reckless enough to have typecast Angel Olsen according to 2013's Burn Your Fire For No Witness is in for a rethink with her third album, My Woman. The crunchier, blown-out production of the former is gone, but that fire is burning wilder. Her disarming, timeless voice is even more front-and-center. Yet, the strange, raw power and slowly unspooling incantations of her previous efforts remain. Over two previous albums, she gave us reverb-shrouded poetic swoons, shadowy folk, grunge-pop band workouts and haunting, finger-picked epics. My Woman is an exhilarating complement to her past work, and one for which Olsen recalibrated her writing\/recording approach and methods to enter a new music-making phase. As the record evolves, one gets the sense that the \"my woman\" of the title is Olsen herself, absolutely in command but also willing to bend with the influence of collaborators and circumstances. An intuitively smart, warmly communicative and fearlessly generous record, My Woman speaks to everyone. That it might confound expectation is just another of it's strengths.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526584766549,"sku":"656605228419","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/angel-olsen-my-woman-8167619.jpg?v=1779844148"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-phases","title":"Angel Olsen - Phases","description":"Vinyl LP pressing. Phases is a collection of Olsen's work culled from the past several years, including a number of never-before-released tracks. \"Fly On Your Wall,\" previously contributed to the Bandcamp-only, anti-Trump fundraiser Our First 100 Days, opens Phases, before seamlessly slipping into \"Special,\" a brand new song from the My Woman recording sessions. Both \"How Many Disasters\" and \"Sans\" are first-time listens: home-recorded demos that have never been released, leaning heavily on Olsen's arresting croon and lonesome guitar.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526584864853,"sku":"656605231419","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/angel-olsen-phases-6448148.jpg?v=1779844148"},{"product_id":"angel-olsen-whole-new-mess-clear-smoke-translucent-vinyl","title":"Angel Olsen - Whole New Mess (Clear Smoke Translucent Vinyl)","description":"The time had come, Angel Olsen realized in the fading summer of 2018, to take her new songs out of the house. Olsen's 2016 marvel, My Woman, had been a career break through, but it catalyzed a period of personal tumult, too: a painful breakup, an uneasy recovery, an inadequate reckoning. At home in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, Olsen penned songs that finally grappled with these troubles, particularly love-how forever is too much to promise, how relationships can lock us into static versions of ourselves, how you can go through hell just to make someone else happy. These heartsore explorations shape WholeNew Mess, Olsen's first solo album since her 2012 debut and an emotional portrait so intimate and vulnerable you can hear her find meaning in these crises in real-time. At least nine of the eleven songs on Whole New Mess should sound familiar to anyone who has heard All Mirrors, Olsen's grand 2019 masterpiece that earned high honors on prestigious year-end lists and glossy spreads in stylish magazines. \"Lark,\" \"Summer,\"Chance\"-they are all here, at least in some skeletal form and with slightly different titles. But these are not the demos for All Mirrors. 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Moving, leaving, going. Distance and short stops, long straight lines, temporal places. More hopefully, a grateful nod to a traveling partner, a healing mind. Maybe a little forgiveness needed. Definitely some things to forget. 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Although the album was released on the Swedish label Gravitation without the help of widespread distribution, the story of the Tallest Man on Earth spread far and wide through word of mouth.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526694342741,"sku":"656605793214","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/tallest-man-on-earth-shallow-grave-7878517.jpg?v=1779843608"},{"product_id":"tallest-man-on-earth-tallest-man-on-earth","title":"Tallest Man On Earth - Tallest Man on Earth","description":"Tallest Man On Earth - Tallest Man on Earth","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526694965333,"sku":"656605793115","price":12.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/tallest-man-on-earth-tallest-man-on-earth-3033818.jpg?v=1779843608"},{"product_id":"tallest-man-on-earth-theres-no-leaving-now","title":"Tallest Man On Earth - There's No Leaving Now","description":"Vinyl LP pressing. 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It is impossible to discuss The Tallest Man on Earth's music without acknowledging Bob Dylan. The seeming effortlessness, the melodic sensibility and the deft lyricism all recall Dylan's early years. But when you witness The Tallest Man on Earth perform live you are watching a man possessed. The energy pours out with every word. Full of intensity and raw emotion, he paces the stage, bringing the audience into the palm of his hand, completely lost in his songs. Releasing his debut album 'Shallow Grave' in 2008, Matsson became the subject of instant acclaim and adulation. Yet it wasn't until Matsson supported Bon Iver throughout a U.S tour in 2008, that his profile started to rise abroad. On every night of that tour, they were introduced to something truly special with obsessive crowds growing each step of the way. 'The Wild Hunt' is ten perfect songs and picks up where 'Shallow Grave' left off, with Matsson doing what he does best. From the urgent strums of \"You're Going Back\" and the sweet melodies of \"Love is All\", to the playful lyricism of live favourite \"King of Spain\" and the subtle hook on \"Burden of Tomorrow\". 'The Wild Hunt' isn't just another folk album; this is acoustic rock 'n' roll from a man with a story to tell.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526695587925,"sku":"656605134017","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/tallest-man-on-earth-wild-hunt-2561036.jpg?v=1779843607"},{"product_id":"devendra-banhart-cripple-crow-anniversary-deluxe-black-green","title":"Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow (Anniversary Deluxe) - Black\/green","description":"Can you believe it? Devendra Banhart's Cripple Crow - originallyreleased by XL in 2005 - is turning 20 years old. This was the 5thalbum from the Venezuelan American artist who is considered thepioneer of the \"Freak Folk\" and \"New Weird America\" movements. Tocelebrate - Devendra has compiled a reissue of the out of print releasethat features a 3rd Bonus LP (on Clear Green Smoke!) featuring 9bonus tracks, including 1 B-Side, 5 previously unreleased demos, 2previously unreleased live tracks, and 1 unearthed smash hit from therecording sessions. This release is the first on his newly created HeavyFlowers label.The album received a \"Best New Music\" 8.4 review from Pitchforkupon it's release. 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It's the actualisation of a \"precious friendship\" with producer Cate Le Bon - a coming together prophesied by the mirror-image titles of their early solo albums (Banhart's \"Oh Me Oh My\" \/ Le Bon's \"Me Oh My\"), a tenderness built on crude haircuts (\"we finally met, soon after she was cutting my hair with a fork and that was that\") and home-made tattoos","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526746902613,"sku":"634457141452","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/devendra-banhart-flying-wig-7519374.jpg?v=1779843427"},{"product_id":"devendra-banhart-mala","title":"Devendra Banhart - Mala","description":"Limited vinyl LP pressing includes bonus 7' single and CD edition. 2013 release, the eighth album from the eccentric singer\/songwriter. Banhart co-produced the record with his longtime bandmate, guitarist Noah Georgeson. 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Kristian Matsson has never remained in one place for very long. Having spent much of the last decade touring around the world as The Tallest Man on Earth, Matsson has captivated audiences using, as The New York Times describes, \"every inch of his long guitar cord to roam the stage: darting around, crouching, stretching, hip-twitching, perching briefly and jittering away... Mr. Matsson is a guitar-slinger rooted in folk, and his songs are troubadour ballads at heart.\" Now, Matsson returns as The Tallest Man on Earth with Henry St., his sixth studio album following 2012's There's No Leaving Now and 2015's Dark Bird Is A Home. Henry St. Notably marks the first time he recorded an album in a band setting. Now, longing for the energy that's only released when creating together with others, Matsson invited his friends to come and play. Nick Sanborn (of Sylvan Esso) produced Henry St., which includes contributions from Ryan Gustafson (of The Dead Tongues) on guitar, lap steel and ukulele, TJ Maiani on drums, CJ Camerieri (of Bon Iver) on trumpet and French horn, Phil Cook on piano and organ, Rob Moose (of Bon Iver, yMusic) on strings and Adam Schatz on saxophone.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526860640341,"sku":"045778795215","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/tallest-man-on-earth-henry-st-8506435.jpg?v=1779842828"},{"product_id":"tallest-man-on-earth-henry-st-translucent-red","title":"Tallest Man On Earth - Henry St. - Translucent Red","description":"Translucent Red Vinyl. Kristian Matsson has never remained in one place for very long. Having spent much of the last decade touring around the world as The Tallest Man on Earth, Matsson has captivated audiences using, as The New York Times describes, \"every inch of his long guitar cord to roam the stage: darting around, crouching, stretching, hip-twitching, perching briefly and jittering away... Mr. Matsson is a guitar-slinger rooted in folk, and his songs are troubadour ballads at heart.\" Now, Matsson returns as The Tallest Man on Earth with Henry St., his sixth studio album following 2012's There's No Leaving Now, full of \"vivid imagery, clever turns-of-phrase, and devastating, world-weary observations\" (Under The Radar) and 2015's Dark Bird Is A Home, his \"most personal record... surreal and dreamlike\" (Pitchfork). Henry St. Notably marks the first time he recorded an album in a band setting. \"My entire career I've been a DIY person-mostly fueled by the feeling that I didn't know what I was doing, so I'd just do everything myself.\" But now, longing for the energy that's only released when creating together with others, Matsson invited his friends to come and play. Nick Sanborn (of Sylvan Esso) produced Henry St., which includes contributions from Ryan Gustafson (of The Dead Tongues) on guitar, lap steel and ukulele, TJ Maiani on drums, CJ Camerieri (of Bon Iver) on trumpet and French horn, Phil Cook on piano and organ, Rob Moose (of Bon Iver, yMusic) on strings and Adam Schatz on saxophone.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526860738645,"sku":"045778795284","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/tallest-man-on-earth-henry-st-translucent-red-6278870.jpg?v=1779842827"},{"product_id":"tallest-man-on-earth-too-late-for-edelweiss","title":"Tallest Man On Earth - Too Late for Edelweiss","description":"The Tallest Man On Earth - the project of Swedish musician Kristian Matsson - presents Too Late For Edelweiss, an album of new covers out ANTI. With Too Late for Edelweiss, Matsson weaves together a sparse collection of home recordings made in Sweden and North Carolina, captured fresh off a 39-date run with the adrenaline of tour rattling through his veins. The songs on Too Late For Edelweiss have been with Matsson since he started playing music as The Tallest Man on Earth in 2006. In those early years, Matsson used to perform \"Lost Highway\" by Hank Williams before he had enough songs to flesh out a full set.In July 2022, Matsson released a cover of Swedish super star Håkan Hellström's \"För sent för Edelweiss,\" a precious song that has been The Tallest Man's walk-on music before every performance for over a decade and what inspired the title of this covers album. Since then, in the lead-up to this announcement, he has quietly released other selections, including Lucinda Williams' \"Metal Firecracker,\" Yo La Tengo's \"Tears Are In Your Eyes\" and now \"Lost Highway.\" Mattson explains, \"When I was a teenager I borrowed a Hank Williams album at the local library, and 'Lost Highway' has been haunting me ever since. Many vocal sound checks throughout my career have heard Hank's advice.\"As much as Too Late for Edelweiss feels like a scrapbook, an intimate memento with the ghosts of The Tallest Man's earlier, sparser sound hovering at the edges, it's also just the artifact of a moment - a flash of joy, of feeling recharged, of feeling good. These are the songs that happened to be in Matsson's head at the time he sat down to record. It came together so simply and easily - and in that way, it's the purest distillation of making music - and being a fan of it, charting the connective tissue of a songwriter's life.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526860902485,"sku":"045778796717","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/tallest-man-on-earth-too-late-for-edelweiss-1793580.jpg?v=1779842827"},{"product_id":"steve-gunn-eyes-on-the-lines","title":"Steve Gunn - Eyes on the Lines","description":"Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. People have written about roads for as long as they've been around. And before there were roads, people still wrote about travel and about landscape. Roads are the stages upon which our greatest experiences and desires play out. Steve Gunn'smusic has always embraced expanse and movement. Eyes on the Lines is his most explicit ode to the blissful uncertainty of adventure yet. His solo ventures, emerging over the past decade and culminating most recently the highly-acclaimed Way Out Weather, have been pastoral, evocative affairs. Here he embraces his urban surroundings through a series of songs that fully showcase his extraordinary ability to match hooks to deftly constructed melodies. These are songs you can take in quickly, but spend all the time in the world devouring. The very large and the very small are present in equal measure. The inability to categorize them within the avalanche of impotent diatribes that pass for categorization is a testament to their power. And what a pleasure to have this music presented to the wider public. 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Recorded and mixed in a number of locations, including Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, B'lieve I'm Goin Down... is a handshake across the country, east to west coast, thru the dustbowl history (\"Valley of Ashes\") of Woody honest strait forward talk Guthrie, and a Cali canyon dead still nite floating in a nearly waterless landscape. The record is all air, weightless, body-less, but grounded in convincing authenticity, in the best version of singer songwriter up cycling.\"","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526879875157,"sku":"744861103318","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/kurt-vile-blieve-im-goin-down-5620471.jpg?v=1779842707"},{"product_id":"julie-byrne-greater-wings","title":"Julie Byrne - Greater Wings","description":"The first album in over six years from American songwriter Julie Byrne is a testament to patience and determination, the willingness to transform through the desolation of loss, the vitality of renewal, and the courage to rise, forever changed. For nearly a decade, Byrne has moved through the world as a characteristically private artist largely outside the public eye. A self-taught musician that has committed her life to her work, she now emerges from a deeply trying and generative period with the most powerful, lustrous, and life-affirming music of her career, The Greater Wings. While they hold the plasticity of grief and trauma, the songs are universally resonant, unbridled in their devotion and joy, held up by the love and alliance of a chosen family. Byrne leans further into atmospheres both expansive and intimate; the lush, evocative songcraft flows between her signature fingerpicked guitar, synthesizer, and a newly adopted piano, made wider by flourishes of harp and strings. It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments - raw, gorgeous, and wild.The Greater Wings was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and the drives cross-country for it's various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann, her longtime creative partner and Not Even Happiness producer, and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick).\"My hope for The Greater Wings is that it lives as a love letter to my chosen family and as an expression of the depth of my commitment to our shared future. Being reshaped by grief also has me more aware of what death does not take from me. I commit that to heart, to words, to sound. Music is not bound to any kind of linear time, so in the capacity to record and speak to the future: this is what it felt like to me, when we were simultaneous, alive, occurring all at once. What it has felt like to go up against my edge and push, the love that has made it worth all this fight. These memories are my values, they belong with me.\"Julie Byrne will confess the success of her 2017 LP Not Even Happiness was unexpected; nine gracefully road-worn odes to the fringes of life she assembled without any expectation that they'd travel so far beyond their DIY origins. But it's hushed closing track, \"I Live Now As A Singer,\" did forecast an intention. She knew the open space - occupied by Littmann's signature palette of synth tones, Jake Falby's strings, and Byrne's robust, drifting voice - presented something new and thrilling, something they'd develop as a live band touring the world, and what would later be understood as the catalyst for material to come. From orchestral folk meditations (\"The Greater Wings\", \"Portrait of a Clear Day\") to windswept piano ballads (\"Moonless\", \"Death Is The Diamond\") to the luminous, synth-driven euphoria of \"Summer Glass,\" The Greater Wings builds on this revelatory space at every turn.","brand":"Sonic Highway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526879973461,"sku":"804297841618","price":23.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1366\/5653\/files\/julie-byrne-greater-wings-8737185.jpg?v=1779842707"},{"product_id":"kurt-vile-classic-love","title":"Kurt Vile - Classic Love","description":"Kurt Vile - \"Classic Love\". A new collaboration EP from Kurt Vile and Luke Roberts on 12\" vinyl. 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It is the transcendent sound of resource, of friendship that was never without romance, of loyalty that burns from within like a heart on fire, and the life force summoned in unrepeatable moments - raw, gorgeous, and wild.The Greater Wings was written across several seasons, pulling imagery from nights on tour, periods of isolation, and the drives cross-country for it's various collaborations between Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Recording started with the late Eric Littmann, her longtime creative partner and Not Even Happiness producer, and finished in the Catskills of New York with producer Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Julianna Barwick).\"My hope for The Greater Wings is that it lives as a love letter to my chosen family and as an expression of the depth of my commitment to our shared future. Being reshaped by grief also has me more aware of what death does not take from me. I commit that to heart, to words, to sound. Music is not bound to any kind of linear time, so in the capacity to record and speak to the future: this is what it felt like to me, when we were simultaneous, alive, occurring all at once. What it has felt like to go up against my edge and push, the love that has made it worth all this fight. These memories are my values, they belong with me.\"Julie Byrne will confess the success of her 2017 LP Not Even Happiness was unexpected; nine gracefully road-worn odes to the fringes of life she assembled without any expectation that they'd travel so far beyond their DIY origins. But it's hushed closing track, \"I Live Now As A Singer,\" did forecast an intention. She knew the open space - occupied by Littmann's signature palette of synth tones, Jake Falby's strings, and Byrne's robust, drifting voice - presented something new and thrilling, something they'd develop as a live band touring the world, and what would later be understood as the catalyst for material to come. 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Her second album, Not Even Happiness, has evolved at it's own pace. It spans recollections of bustling roadside diners, the stars over the high desert, the aching weariness of change, the wildflowers of the California coast, and the irresolvable mysteries of love. Teaching herself guitar, having picked it up when her father became ill and could no longer play, Byrne also admits she can't read music and doesn't even listen to it all that much - her own vinyl was the first in her possession. \"Without possessing the right words, I'd describe to [producer] Eric Littman (Phantom Posse) and Jake Falby (who contributed strings) the feeling I wanted a song to evoke, or I would take a shot at singing what was in my head. 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