View basket “The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone” has been added to your basket. Lessons for Mutants Johanna Warren SKU: WIX07LP Barcode: 677517700718 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wax Nine Records Released Date: 7th October 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info “I think it’s a mistake to equate ‘perfection’ with flawlessness. To be human is to be perfectly flawed,” Johanna Warren observes while describing the joys of analog recording. Her new LP Lessons for Mutants was tracked live with a band to two inch tape—a revelatory new way of working for Warren. “Tape forces you to commit to a performance, eccentricities and all. The little glitches and anomalies that we’re tempted to ‘correct’ are often what make a thing magical.” Lessons for Mutants is the prolific songwriter’s sixth solo LP and her second for Wax Nine/Carpark Records. The album’s running theme of metamorphosis (the title of the closing track, “Involvulus,” is Latin for “caterpillar”) reflects major changes in Warren’s personal life: after a decade of relentless touring, as the world was closing its borders, the American multi-instrumentalist unexpectedly found herself quarantining in rural Wales, where she’s now permanently homesteading. Though tracking for the new album began in New York in 2018 in tandem with the sessions for 2020’s Chaotic Good, the majority of Lessons for Mutants was recorded in the UK surrounded by sheep, cows and a forager’s paradise of wild edible plants—a far cry from the urban jungle of LA that Warren had most recently called home. The body of work that emerged from this dramatic about-face is Warren’s most dynamic to date, shapeshifting seamlessly from searing punk screams to sparkly psych-folk soundscapes, from the bootleg ambivalence of Dylan’s Basement Tapes to cosmic stoner grooves reminiscent of Black Sabbath’s acoustic moments. “Sometimes I can relate to myself/ I disassociate more than I’d like to, but what can you do?” Warren croons in “Tooth for a Tooth,” a wistful piano ballad that conjures the grainy romance of some smoke-filled 1940s jazz club. This kind of to-the-bone lyrical honesty has always been one of Warren’s strong suits, but these latest reflections are especially unflinching. Being forced to stop touring brought no shortage of self-examination for Warren, who quickly came to view her history on the road as an addiction from which she’s been detoxing. This sentiment dances through opening track “I’d Be Orange,” a drum-driven indie rock number replete with Beatles-esque male backing vocals: “Thirst for power, hunger for fame/ Always was a junkie for pain,” Warren confesses. This exploration of masochistic ambition and artistic martyrdom overflows into grunge anthem “Piscean Lover”: “It’s alright, we’re not ok/ We burn out not to fade away.” “There’s this unspoken rule in modern music—modern life, really—that everything needs to be Auto-Tuned and ‘on the grid,’” Warren concludes. “This record is an act of resistance against that. There’s beauty and power in our aberrations, if we can embrace them.” ”Reaching deep into the soul through the ill-fated love story of Orpheus and Euridyce, ‘Involvolus’ is starkly perfect in every way and a fitting conclusion to this brief but wonderful album.” 9/10 GOD IS IN THE TV Artist Johanna Warren Genre Folk Label Wax Nine Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings I'd Be Orange Piscean Lover Oaths County Fair Tooth for a Tooth :/ Lessons for Mutants Hi Res Good Is Gone Involvulus Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Folk View Product Quick View Admirals Hard Upon a Painted Ocean Folk | Believers Roast | 1LP Released 22nd July 2016 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Admirals Hard Upon a Painted Ocean £14.00 Genre: Folk Label: Believers Roast SKU: BR18 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Tim Buckley Sefronia Folk | Real Gone Music | 180g, 1LP Released 7th July 2017 £31.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tim Buckley Sefronia £31.00 Genre: Folk Label: Real Gone Music SKU: RLGM05601PMI Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Karen Dalton In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition) 2LP Folk | Light In The Attic | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 28th July 2023 £26.00 - £29.00 Select options Karen Dalton In My Own Time (50th Anniversary Edition) 2LP £26.00 - £29.00 Genre: Folk Label: Light In The Attic Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 28th July 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Dervish The Great Irish Songbook Folk | Rounder | 1LP Released 12th April 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dervish The Great Irish Songbook £20.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rounder SKU: 7208896 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest Americana / Country | Acony Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th July 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Gillian Welch The Harrow & The Harvest £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Acony Records SKU: 0805147110939 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th July 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Georgia Ruth Kingfisher Folk | Bubblewrap Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th February 2023 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Georgia Ruth Kingfisher £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Bubblewrap Records SKU: BWR063V Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Mandolin Orange Such Jubilee Americana / Country | Yep Roc | 1LP Released 12th January 2023 £95.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mandolin Orange Such Jubilee £95.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Yep Roc SKU: nn256093 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th January 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Shovel Dance Collective The Water is the Shovel of the Shore Folk | Memorials of Distinction / Double Dare | 2LP Released 5th April 2024 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Shovel Dance Collective The Water is the Shovel of the Shore £24.00 Genre: Folk Label: Memorials of Distinction / Double Dare SKU: MODARE001LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 5th April 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Stone Stone Folk | Drag City | 1LP Released 12th February 2021 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Stone Stone £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Drag City SKU: DC789 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th February 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Moundabout Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones Folk | Rocket Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th May 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Moundabout Flowers Rot, Bring Me Stones £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Rocket Recordings SKU: LAUNCH245 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th May 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Folk Start again
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