View basket “Silly Sisters” 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 Gallery The Wind That Shakes the Barley Folk | Guerssen | 1LP, Includes Insert Released 1st May 2014 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gallery The Wind That Shakes the Barley £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Guerssen SKU: GUESS130 Formats: 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 1st May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trees On the Shore Folk | Earth Recordings | 1LP Released 21st October 2022 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trees On the Shore £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Earth Recordings SKU: EARTHLP035B Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Bill Keith And Jim Rooney The Collection Americana / Country | Waterfront | 1LP Released 17th November 2022 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bill Keith And Jim Rooney The Collection £8.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Waterfront SKU: nn253586 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th November 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Milk Carton Kids, The The Only Ones Folk | Milk Carton Kids Records | 10", 1LP, EP/Mini Album Released 6th December 2019 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Milk Carton Kids, The The Only Ones £13.00 Genre: Folk Label: Milk Carton Kids Records SKU: MCR00003LP Formats: 10", 1LP, EP/Mini Album Released Date: 6th December 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Megan Henwood River Folk | Dharma | 180g, 1LP Released 27th April 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Megan Henwood River £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Dharma SKU: DHARMALP30 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Rose Elinor Dougall A New Illusion Folk | Vermilion | 1LP Released 5th April 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Rose Elinor Dougall A New Illusion £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Vermilion SKU: VERMLP8 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jacken Elswyth At Fargrounds Folk | Wrong Speed Records | 1LP Released 31st May 2024 £26.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Jacken Elswyth At Fargrounds £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wrong Speed Records SKU: WSR052 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eliza Carthy & The Restitution Queen Of The Whirl Folk | HemHem Records | 1LP Released 11th November 2022 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eliza Carthy & The Restitution Queen Of The Whirl £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: HemHem Records SKU: NTKBB2022EC1 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Jane Rothfield & Allan Carr Atlantic Bridge Folk | Green Linnet | 1LP, Includes Insert Released 12th July 2013 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Jane Rothfield & Allan Carr Atlantic Bridge £8.00 Genre: Folk Label: Green Linnet SKU: NN57743 Formats: 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 12th July 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Parlor, The Kiku Folk | Fivekill Records | 1LP Released 20th April 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Parlor, The Kiku £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Fivekill Records SKU: LPFIVEK001 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th April 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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