Reason to Live Lou Barlow SKU: JNR367LPC1 Barcode: 0753936907638 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Joyful Noise Recordings Released Date: 28th May 2021 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info First full length solo album since 2015’s Brace the Wave. COLORED VINYL LIGHT BLUE + comes with download code. Recommended If You Like: Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr./J. Mascis, Folk Implosion, Silver Jews, Smog/Bill Callahan, Guided by Voices / Robert Pollard, Superchunk, Helvetia, That first Cloud Nothings record from 2010. After decades on the road and the never-ending hustle of life as an artist, Lou Barlow has tapped into a new confidence in the chaos. In 2021, the concept of balance feels particularly intimidating. Now more than ever, it’s clear life isn’t just leveling out a pair of responsibilities. Instead, we’re chasing after a flock of different ideals with a butterfly net. On Barlow’s new solo album, Reason to Live, he has come to an understanding of that swirl rather than trying to contain it. As a long-time indie legend, Barlow has found a life akin to a middle-class musician. In recent years, he’s moved from Los Angeles back to Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and three kids. And yet rather than settle into a comfortable malaise or yearn for the open road, Barlow’s strengthened urgency finds a way to merge the two instincts. Reason to Live is shambolic and grand yet intimate and doting, warmly acoustic and crackling with grit. “I had been struggling for a way to connect both my home life and my recorded life, but this record is the first time I’ve integrated that,” Barlow says. By folding the many facets of his life into one package, Reason to Live radiates with a renewed balance and calm. That comfort in complexity shines through even in the recording process, with select songs having origins in decades past and others written in the early stages of 2020. The multitude of whirring messages of Reason to Live are united by Barlow’s roiling multilayered arrangements and the understanding that change is inevitable–and that it can bring you a new reason to live in the darkest times. “This album is me really opening up, and the album follows that through its many different themes,” he says. “Some of my other work could be almost claustrophobic in its insistence on being all tied together but there’s space for people to live inside these songs.” After albums with Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion, and under his own name, listeners may have felt they knew the construction of a Barlow song, even that they knew Barlow himself. “People have this vision of me as this heartbroken, depressed guy, but this record feels so true to who I am, to this rich life I now have full of people I love,” he says. “The songs culminated over the last five years to show that music has returned to its central comforting role in my life. Now I’m home.” Artist Lou Barlow Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Joyful Noise Recordings Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1 In My Arms 2 Reason To Live 3 Why Can’t It Wait 4 Love Intervene 5 Privatize 6 I Don’t Like Changes 7 Clouded Age 8 Over You 9 How Do I Know 10 Cold One 11 Thirsty 12 Maumee 13 Lows and Highs 14 Paws 15 Tempted 16 All You People Suck 17 Act of Faith Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Lou Barlow and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Lou Barlow Emoh Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 31st July 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lou Barlow Emoh £26.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG254LP Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 31st July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 65Daysofstatic No Man’s Sky Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Laced Records | 1LP Released 7th June 2019 £29.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders 65Daysofstatic No Man’s Sky £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Laced Records SKU: LMLP4 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Guided By Voices How Do You Spell Heaven Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Guided By Voices, Inc. | 1LP Released 11th August 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Guided By Voices How Do You Spell Heaven £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Guided By Voices, Inc. 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