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 Letters Sent Home Forever Undone Rock And Pop | SharpTone | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th April 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Letters Sent Home Forever Undone £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: SharpTone SKU: 4065629717179 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rosie Carney Bare Rock And Pop | Akira Records | 1LP Released 25th January 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rosie Carney Bare £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Akira Records SKU: AKIRA004LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th January 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Walk The Moon What If Nothing Rock And Pop | Sony Music | 2LP Released 15th December 2017 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Walk The Moon What If Nothing £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sony Music SKU: 88985454851 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 15th December 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Byrds, The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco November 2nd 1968 Rock And Pop | Keyhole | 180g, 2LP Released 23rd February 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Byrds, The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco November 2nd 1968 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Keyhole SKU: KH2LP9036 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 23rd February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Thea Gilmore Ghosts & Graffiti Rock And Pop | Full Fill | 2LP Released 15th June 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Thea Gilmore Ghosts & Graffiti £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Full Fill SKU: FCLP165 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 15th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Divine Comedy, The Absent Friends Rock And Pop | Divine Comedy Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 9th October 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Divine Comedy, The Absent Friends £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Divine Comedy Records SKU: DCRL080RLP Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th October 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Desperate Journalist Maximum Sorrow! 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