View basket “Live At Leeds (Expanded)” has been added to your basket. Best Blues Small Black SKU: JAG269LP Barcode: 0656605226934 16.00 £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jagjaguwar Released Date: 16th October 2015 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Small Black’s third full length release, written and recorded at their Brooklyn home studio, nicknamed 222, showcasing a band still evolving and embracing the unpredictable. After a year of recording the band enlisted mixer Nicholas Vernhes (War On Drugs, Deerhunter) of Rare Book Room Studio to help complete the record. ‘Best Blues’ finds the band in their sweet spot: the smoky intersection of considered and vulnerable songwriting and loose, almost nonchalant ambience. The addition of piano flourishes, trumpet (Darby Cicci of The Antlers), hidden acoustic guitars and Kaede Ford’s ethereal vocals provide new dimensions to the band’s already expansive sonic palette. Cut-to-the-chase rippers ‘Back At Belle’s’ and ‘Checkpoints’ embody and build on the group’s signature gritty yet focused electronic sound. While more pastoral tracks such as ‘Between Leos’ and ‘XX Century’ – skeletally based on recorded improvisations – find the band painting a more nuanced, assured aural portrait. The repeating of the line “twentieth century” on closer ‘XX Century’ serves as a coda for the album, offering a simple summation of what ‘Best Blues’ intent has been from the opening Casio stab: an attempt to re-examine the past but also one to let it go. “Another sparkling gem of widescreen, starry-eyed synthpop from a band who’ve been crafting such gems for years.” – Stereogum Artist Small Black Genre Rock And Pop Label Jagjaguwar Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Personal Best No One Wants It To Happen To You Boys Life The Closer I Look Big Ideas, Pt. 2 Back At Belle’s Between Leos Checkpoints Smoke Around The Bend XX Century Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Small Black and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Small Black Limits Of Desire Rock And Pop | Jagjaguwar | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 9th May 2013 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Small Black Limits Of Desire £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Jagjaguwar SKU: JAG208LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 9th May 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Virgin Prunes …If I Die, I Die (40th Anniversary Edition) Rock And Pop | BMG Rights Management | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 11th November 2022 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Virgin Prunes …If I Die, I Die (40th Anniversary Edition) £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538821604 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico Rock And Pop | Virgin | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 24th September 2021 £26.00 - £29.00 Select options Various Artists I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground & Nico £26.00 - £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Virgin Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 24th September 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Dave Clarke Five, The Glad All Over LP Rock And Pop | BMG Rights Management | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th November 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Clarke Five, The Glad All Over LP £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538707816 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Foreigner Can’t Slow Down (Deluxe Edition) Rock And Pop | Earmusic | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th November 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Foreigner Can’t Slow Down (Deluxe Edition) £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Earmusic SKU: 0215407EMU Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Secret Machines Awake In the Brain Chamber Rock And Pop | TSM | 180g, 1LP Released 11th December 2020 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Secret Machines Awake In the Brain Chamber £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: TSM SKU: TSM003LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 11th December 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Darcys, The Warring Rock And Pop | Arts & Crafts | 1LP Released 16th September 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Darcys, The Warring £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Arts & Crafts SKU: AC082LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Against Me! 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