View basket “Just Act Normal” has been added to your basket. Heaven On The Faultline Alex Bleeker SKU: NB010LP Barcode: 085218004927 19.00 £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Nightbloom Records Released Date: 5th March 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Real Estate’s Alex Bleeker steps out on his own for a first full solo album, taking his music back to his homespun indie-rock roots. Initially recorded in his bedroom before adding finishing touches in the studio, the tracks have a lo-fi warmth akin to Bleeker’s American heroes The Feelies & Yo La Tengo. I’ve known Alex Bleeker my entire life. Well, okay, maybe not since I was born, but there’s no doubt that I’ve shared a fair bit of memories with him over the years. We’ve acted in high school productions of Shakespeare together, gone on late-night diner runs, argued about which Weezer album is the band’s best, and swapped mutual appreciation for the music of Yo La Tengo on car rides careening around the snaky suburbia of our hometown. Just like his Real Estate bandmates Martin Courtney and Julian Lynch, we attended high school in the New Jersey enclave of Ridgewood, a place where sticky summer days yielded cool nights with a glow so nocturnal that you can practically hear the fireflies buzzing off of this sentence alone. Indie rock—a type of music that can easily be made or listened to in someone’s garage—often dominates teenage suburban preoccupations, and both Alex and I were no exception. You can hear this legacy of listening on his new album Heaven on the Faultline, which departs from his last full-band outing as Alex Bleeker and the Freaks, 2015’s Country Agenda. Whereas that album had a more full-bodied explicitly folk-y feel, Heaven on the Faultline finds Bleeker getting back to his homespun roots over the course of its 13 songs, from the jangly guitar pop of New Jersey heroes the Feelies and YLT’s hushed, acoustic reveries to the open-hearted folk rock that marks so much of the Grateful Dead’s early catalog. Written and recorded over the last several years, Heaven on the Faultline’s songs were initially recorded straight to GarageBand in Bleeker’s bedroom before receiving further studio refinement in co-producer Phil Hartunian’s Tropico Beauty space in Los Angeles. With contributions from Confusing Mix of Nations’ Josh Da Costa, Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw, singer-songwriter Kacey Johansing, and Parting Lines’ Tim Ramsey, Heaven on the Faultline achieves a warm and intimate feel that defines Bleeker’s mission for the album: “I wanted to capture the moment in which I fell in love with making music to begin with. This is music for myself—me getting back to music for music’s sake.” The unsteady times we live in certainly creep into view on Heaven on the Faultline. The deceptively easygoing “D Plus” was written on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration with the cursed event in mind, while the anxiety of climate change hovers just above the lovely guitar loops of “Felty Feel.” “The album is very much about dealing with the anxiety of a sense of impending doom,” Bleeker states while discussing the album’s portentous vibes. “When is the hammer going to fall? How do we go forward in the face of such anxiety and experience the complexity of life?” Artist Alex Bleeker Genre Folk Label Nightbloom Records Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings AB Ripoff D plus Felty Feel Heaven On The Faultline Heavy Tupper LaLaLa Mashed Potatoes Swang Parking Lot Reach For My Brain Tamalpais Twang Lonesome Call Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Mary Black Stories from the Steeples Folk | Pure Pleasure | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 1st February 2013 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mary Black Stories from the Steeples £34.00 Genre: Folk Label: Pure Pleasure SKU: PPAN015 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 1st February 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Alasdair Roberts Spoils Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 30th April 2009 £12.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Alasdair Roberts Spoils £12.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC392 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th April 2009 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 9Bach Anian Folk | Real World | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 27th May 2016 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 9Bach Anian £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Real World SKU: LPRW214 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jade Fly On Strangewings Folk | Guerssen | 1LP Released 9th April 2012 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jade Fly On Strangewings £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Guerssen SKU: GUESS095 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Welcome Wagon, The Esther Folk | Asthmatic Kitty Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 4th November 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Welcome Wagon, The Esther £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Asthmatic Kitty Records SKU: AKR149LP-C1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 4th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Beirut Artifacts Folk | Pompeii | 2LP Released 4th March 2022 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Beirut Artifacts £28.00 Genre: Folk Label: Pompeii SKU: POMP009LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rails, The Other People Folk | Psychonaut Sounds | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st September 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rails, The Other People £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Psychonaut Sounds SKU: PSYCHED010LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jenn Bostic Revival Folk | Jenn Bostic Music | 1LP Released 4th May 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jenn Bostic Revival £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Jenn Bostic Music SKU: LPJEN6 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bert Jansch & John Renbourn Bert And John Folk | Sanctuary | 1LP Released 9th October 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bert Jansch & John Renbourn Bert And John £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Sanctuary SKU: 5414939921537 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 9th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John & Beverley Martyn Road To Ruin Folk | Caroline International | 1LP Released 28th September 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders John & Beverley Martyn Road To Ruin £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Caroline International SKU: CAROLR099 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th September 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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