Matt's picks Sides Lean Year SKU: WV217LP Barcode: 0843563149744 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Western Vinyl Released Date: 2nd September 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Video Description Product Info Alverson has released five records as Spokane, and four as Drunk on the label Jagjaguwar. There is a moment on Sides, the new album from Richmond, Virginia-based duo Lean Year, in which a hospital room floor is filled with white chrysanthemums. This imagery, based on an opiate-induced hallucination experienced by vocalist Emilie Rex’s mother as she recovered from surgery, is a perfect encapsulation of the band’s second album: dreamlike and beautiful, yet burdened with cold, stark reality. Sides is a harrowing journey through realms of grief and memory, a meditation woven into a tapestry of synth pads, woodwinds, and Rex’s instantly recognizable voice. The duo of Rex and Rick Alverson who also works as a film director (The Mountain, Entertainment, The Comedy) originally set out to write an album about conflict, but during the writing and recording process, they were confronted with a number of personal tragedies. Alverson lost both of his parents in rapid succession, Rex’s mother received a cancer diagnosis, and the couple’s beloved family dog, Orca, died. These events transformed the album into an exploration of loss an attempt at processing the painful, complex, and private emotions that bubble to the surface when confronted with death. “We thought we’d do a concept album called Sides where we could reflect on all of the division in the world, and some in our own families, but then COVID transformed everything / everyone, and we suffered our own specific losses. The record became about loss and grief,” Rex explains. “In this way, the title Sides was still appropriate: our individual grief and collective grief, the margins of before and after, the act and feeling of during and enduring. It felt like straddling a threshold between two opposing sides the moment before conflict and the moment after it passes, life and death, the act of living and the memory of the act. Grief feels like a contention between what you knew and what you now know, and often both feel real and unreal at once.” Sides produced by Alverson alongside Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings) and featuring contributions from Elliot Bergman (Nomo, Wild Belle) and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer, The War on Drugs) has a distinctly cinematic quality, perhaps due in part to Alverson’s other career.Moments of jazz, slowcore, and dirgelike R&B find their way into the sorrowful, ambient suite, lulling the listener into a state of calm while the lyrics speak of ghosts, childhood, and mortality. Despite the gravity of the subject matter, Sides succeeds in mastering a balancing act between pathos and pop. Each song is indelible and haunting, with melodies that have the kind of broad appeal reminiscent of Karen Dalton, Aldous Harding, and FKA twigs. “Lean Year have managed an impressive debut.” – PITCHFORK “There’s such beautiful atmosphere to the record…It’s really stunning.” – NPR MUSIC “…a gorgeous piece of ghostly folk-rock.” – STEREOGUM Artist Lean Year Genre Rock And Pop Label Western Vinyl Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 01 Legs 02 Nitetime 03 End 04 Trouble With Being Warm 05 Panes 06 Bend 07 Bad Woman 08 Marriage of Heaven and Hell 09 Home Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Lean Year and more from Rock And Pop Nearly New View Product Quick View Lean Year Sides Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Western Vinyl | 1LP Released 31st January 2024 £15.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lean Year Sides £15.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Western Vinyl SKU: nn280077 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st January 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Lightning Seeds, The Jollification – National Album Day 2024 Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th October 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lightning Seeds, The Jollification – National Album Day 2024 £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 19802828821 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th October 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds Its Coming Home For Christmas Rock And Pop | Sony | 7", Coloured Vinyl Released 2nd December 2022 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds Its Coming Home For Christmas £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony SKU: 19658709417 Formats: 7", Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 2nd December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Budgie Best Of Budgie Metal / Classic Rock | MCA | 1LP Released 30th November 2023 £18.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Budgie Best Of Budgie £18.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: MCA SKU: nn276986 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th November 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Heaven 17 How Live Is Rock And Pop | Demon | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 13th November 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Heaven 17 How Live Is £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC833 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 13th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Saints, The (I’m) Stranded Rock And Pop | 4 Men With Beards | 180g, 1LP Released 10th August 2016 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Saints, The (I’m) Stranded £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: 4 Men With Beards SKU: 4M502LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 10th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Public Image Limited Album Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 180g, 1LP Released 27th January 2011 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Public Image Limited Album £13.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: 60438 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak Rock And Pop | We Are Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 7th July 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: We Are Vinyl SKU: 88985421771 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 7th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Triptides Azur Rock And Pop | Requiem For A Twister | 1LP Released 10th July 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Triptides Azur £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Requiem For A Twister SKU: RPUT12 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe – 10th Anniversary Edition Rock And Pop | UMR / EMI | 1LP, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 20th October 2023 £26.00 - £39.00 Select options Chvrches The Bones Of What You Believe – 10th Anniversary Edition £26.00 - £39.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMR / EMI Formats: 1LP, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 20th October 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Enya The Very Best Of Rock And Pop | Warner Bros | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 25th May 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Enya The Very Best Of £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Bros SKU: 0825646467648 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 25th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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