Anagrams Stephen Steinbrink SKU: MELO108LP Barcode: 5060168041050 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Melodic Released Date: 1st July 2016 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Includes CD Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info After ten years of touring and secluded home recording, Stephen Steinbrink has cataloged several albums worth of gorgeous melody and quotidian dread in his stark, minimal pop. Yet the songs on his latest, Anagrams, beautiful yet unflinching portraits of addiction and mental illness are captured in his most meticulous and high-fidelity production to date. While one might expect the record to be a final destination, a tidy hi-res apex of all his journeying, the album’s particularly varied styles and sincere lyrical uncertainty portray a search that still continues. “Lately writing songs almost makes me feel like I’m losing it, like I keep digging up and re-burying the same old bone. I tried to continue unpacking these forgotten images and memories, except this time without placing any subjective meaning on them, or any expectation of personal growth to occur after. Maybe it’s silly to expect the process of making art to be a clarifying act.” Stephen’s artistic trajectory can be considered nomadic in the obvious sense: when not incessantly touring Europe and the U.S. in the last two years, he spent his stationary moments writing in California, Arizona and Washington. Most of his previous recordings were the product of self-engineered experiments, culminating in 2014’s Arranged Waves, an unabashedly digital tableau of subdued, heartbreaking pop. Now, Anagrams finds him chasing melodies in the polished largesse of a proper studio. Anagrams was intensely recorded over 2 years at UNKNOWN, a retrofitted analogue studio in a lofty, de-sanctified church in the secluded island town of Anacortes, Washington. Assisted by engineer Nicholas Wilbur and featuring performances by members of Mt. Eerie, LAKE, and Hungry Cloud Darkening, Steinbrink’s songs gracefully inhabit the vastness of the space in which they were recorded, effortlessly gliding between glacial grunge lurches, lush country movements, and succinct power pop. The most ambitious of Stephen’s pop songcraft, Anagrams is ultimately an unpacking of identity. “I don’t care about continuing in a tradition of songwriters, and I rarely intentionally self-identify as one. I always wonder if my most recent song is the last one I’ll ever write. I try to be more concerned with being open, to imagine myself as a rock or a wrapper or nothing at all. Whenever I can get close to that state of mind the songs come easy, but it seems arbitrary, almost like they would’ve existed with or without me. I think it’s a noble pursuit, to try to be nothing.” An effort, ongoing. LP comes with album CD inside and is reverse board outer sleeve, printed inner sleeve and 180g vinyl. “enlightened and transformative.. he sings ‘You can’t describe the sublime,’ but Steinbrink’s own angelic philosophizing has proven otherwise…dreamy though undoubtedly haunted” Pitchfork “polished and fastidiously¬ crafted…the type of gleaming pop sound that takes real skill and precision” The Guardian “precision alt pop with real heart” Uncut “At first glance his songs pull you in with their calming melodic tendencies but his songwrting craft and well-spun lyrics soon take you a lot deeper.” Avi Buffalo Artist Stephen Steinbrink Genre Rock And Pop Label Melodic Buying Options 180g 1LP Includes CD Format 180g , 1LP , Includes CD Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Absent Mind 2. Building Machines 3. Psychic Daydream 4. Impossible Hand 5. What Identiy? 6. Canopy 7. I'm Turning Inside Out 8. Dissociative Blues 9. Anagrams 10. Black Hole / We Don't Say Anything 11. Shine A Light On Him 12. 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