View basket “Twerp Verse” has been added to your basket. Red Devil Dawn Crooked Fingers SKU: MRG222LP Barcode: 0673855022215 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records Released Date: 29th June 2018 Buying Format: 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Love songs abound on 2003’s Red Devil Dawn, but most of the love is dead or dying or at least dirty. That makes sense: Just a few years after his split with indie stalwarts Archers of Loaf, Eric Bachmann had forcefully forged a new identity and sound with Crooked Fingers, and he quickly amassed a catalog of gorgeous, poetic songs about weary losers and broken lives. This is the album that gave their desperation its most pointed, perfectly detailed homes. Red Devil Dawn was the third Crooked Fingers album inside of four years, and in hindsight-at 15 years old, it’s a god damn teenager now-it feels like both the pinnacle and the end of Crooked Fingers Phase One. Bachmann had perfected the art of darkness, of finding his characters and stories in solitude and then adding or subtracting sounds and players to make them come alive. Never had they seemed more personal or more vulnerable than on Red Devil Dawn, from the ornery argument on “You Threw a Spark” to the heartbreaking album closer “Carrion Doves,” which posits that “what can make us one can make us come undone.” But the album-being issued on vinyl for the first time ever, and with some killer bonus demos digitally-also nudges open the door to where Bachmann would take Crooked Fingers next. “Sweet Marie” adds jaunty horns to a withering-but-somehow-sweet story about infidelity, and also manages to include the line “I swear I’m gonna set that pussy bastard straight.” And elsewhere, there’s more hope in the darkness than ever, though it can be hard to recognize at first. But at the end of “Disappear,” he sums up both Crooked Fingers’ past and its future: “There’s beauty in an ugly thing, redemption in demise .” That’s Red Devil Dawn writ small and simple: It finds the specks of light in the darkest rooms, and spins the whole picture into a gorgeous whole. Artist Crooked Fingers Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl , Includes Download Code Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Big Darkness Don’t Say a Word You Can Never Leave Bad Man Coming You Threw a Spark Boy With (100) Hands Sweet Marie Angelina Disappear Carrion Doves Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Crooked Fingers and more from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn – Indies Only Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 29th June 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn – Indies Only £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG222LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Crooked Fingers Bring On The Snakes (Reissue) Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crooked Fingers Bring On The Snakes (Reissue) £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge SKU: MRG561LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Crooked Fingers Crooked Fingers (Reissue) Rock And Pop | Merge | 1LP Released 5th February 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Crooked Fingers Crooked Fingers (Reissue) £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge SKU: MRG560LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 5th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Body/Head The Switch Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Matador | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 13th July 2018 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Body/Head The Switch £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Matador SKU: OLE13611 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Trust Punks Double Bind Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Faux Discx | 1LP Released 29th July 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trust Punks Double Bind £17.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Faux Discx SKU: FAUX43LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 3rd September 2021 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Silverstein When Broken Is Easily Fixed £33.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: UMC SKU: 7223330 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 3rd September 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View New Year, The Snow Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Grand Hotel Van Cleef | 1LP, Includes CD Released 9th June 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders New Year, The Snow £20.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Grand Hotel Van Cleef SKU: GHVC113LP Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 9th June 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jaya The Cat The New International Sound Of Hedonism Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bomber Music | 180g, 1LP Released 9th February 2024 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jaya The Cat The New International Sound Of Hedonism £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bomber Music SKU: UXB013LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 9th February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Propagandhi How To Clean Everything Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Fat Wreck | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 2nd September 2013 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Propagandhi How To Clean Everything £14.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Fat Wreck SKU: FAT911LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 2nd September 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Press Club Endless Motion Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Hassle Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 14th October 2022 £23.00 - £29.00 Select options Press Club Endless Motion £23.00 - £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Hassle Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 14th October 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Early Eyes Look Alive! 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