Red Devil Dawn – Indies Only Crooked Fingers SKU: MRG222LPC1 Barcode: 0673855022208 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Released Date: 29th June 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Love songs abound on 2003’s Red Devil Dawn, but most of the love is dead or dying or at least dirty. That makes sense: Just a few years after his split with indie stalwarts Archers of Loaf, Eric Bachmann had forcefully forged a new identity and sound with Crooked Fingers, and he quickly amassed a catalog of gorgeous, poetic songs about weary losers and broken lives. This is the album that gave their desperation its most pointed, perfectly detailed homes. Red Devil Dawn was the third Crooked Fingers album inside of four years, and in hindsight-at 15 years old, it’s a god damn teenager now-it feels like both the pinnacle and the end of Crooked Fingers Phase One. Bachmann had perfected the art of darkness, of finding his characters and stories in solitude and then adding or subtracting sounds and players to make them come alive. Never had they seemed more personal or more vulnerable than on Red Devil Dawn, from the ornery argument on “You Threw a Spark” to the heartbreaking album closer “Carrion Doves,” which posits that “what can make us one can make us come undone.” But the album-being issued on vinyl for the first time ever, and with some killer bonus demos digitally-also nudges open the door to where Bachmann would take Crooked Fingers next. “Sweet Marie” adds jaunty horns to a withering-but-somehow-sweet story about infidelity, and also manages to include the line “I swear I’m gonna set that pussy bastard straight.” And elsewhere, there’s more hope in the darkness than ever, though it can be hard to recognize at first. But at the end of “Disappear,” he sums up both Crooked Fingers’ past and its future: “There’s beauty in an ugly thing, redemption in demise .” That’s Red Devil Dawn writ small and simple: It finds the specks of light in the darkest rooms, and spins the whole picture into a gorgeous whole. Translucent Red Vinyl LP (MRG222LPC1) is for Indie stores only and is ltd to 850 copies. Artist Crooked Fingers Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Big Darkness Don’t Say a Word You Can Never Leave Bad Man Coming You Threw a Spark Boy With (100) Hands Sweet Marie Angelina Disappear Carrion Doves Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Crooked Fingers and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 29th June 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG222LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Crooked Fingers Bring On The Snakes (Reissue) Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crooked Fingers Bring On The Snakes (Reissue) £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge SKU: MRG561LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Crooked Fingers Crooked Fingers (Reissue) Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crooked Fingers Crooked Fingers (Reissue) £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge SKU: MRG560LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hinds I Dont Run Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Lucky Number | 1LP Released 6th April 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hinds I Dont Run £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Lucky Number SKU: LUCKY116LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 6th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Murder By Death Who Will Survive and What Will Be Left of Them? 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