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 Elton John & Ray Cooper Live From Moscow Rock And Pop | Mercury | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 24th January 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Elton John & Ray Cooper Live From Moscow £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mercury SKU: 7714295 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 24th January 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Angus & Julia Stone Cape Forestier Rock And Pop | Play It Again Sam | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 10th May 2024 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Angus & Julia Stone Cape Forestier £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Play It Again Sam SKU: PIASR5200LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 10th May 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Labi Siffre Crying Laughing Loving Lying (Half Speed Mastered) Rock And Pop | Demon | 180g, 1LP Released 9th December 2022 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Labi Siffre Crying Laughing Loving Lying (Half Speed Mastered) £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1052 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 9th December 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bjork Vulnicura Rock And Pop | One Little Independent | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th March 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bjork Vulnicura £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: One Little Independent SKU: TPLP1231 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th March 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lissie When I’m Alone: The Piano Retrospective Rock And Pop | Cooking Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 3rd April 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lissie When I’m Alone: The Piano Retrospective £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Cooking Vinyl SKU: COOKLP725 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 3rd April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Men of North Country 3 Rock And Pop | Acid Jazz | 1LP Released 28th April 2023 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Men of North Country 3 £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Acid Jazz SKU: SUSSLP28 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mull Historical Society Us Rock And Pop | Demon | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th February 2023 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mull Historical Society Us £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1029 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Duncan Browne The Wild Places Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 4th July 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Duncan Browne The Wild Places £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1685 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 4th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years [Deluxe Boxset] Rock And Pop | Dark Horse Records | Box Set Released 16th September 2022 £123.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years [Deluxe Boxset] £123.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Dark Horse Records SKU: 4050538791822 Formats: Box Set Released Date: 16th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gentle Giant Free Hand (Steven Wilson remix) Rock And Pop | Alucard | 2LP Released 10th September 2021 £38.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gentle Giant Free Hand (Steven Wilson remix) £38.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Alucard SKU: ALUGGV066 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 10th September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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