View basket “A Good Feelin’ To Know Poco” has been added to your basket. Matt's picks Sides Lean Year SKU: WV217LP Barcode: 0843563149744 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Western Vinyl Released Date: 2nd September 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Video Description Product Info Alverson has released five records as Spokane, and four as Drunk on the label Jagjaguwar. There is a moment on Sides, the new album from Richmond, Virginia-based duo Lean Year, in which a hospital room floor is filled with white chrysanthemums. This imagery, based on an opiate-induced hallucination experienced by vocalist Emilie Rex’s mother as she recovered from surgery, is a perfect encapsulation of the band’s second album: dreamlike and beautiful, yet burdened with cold, stark reality. Sides is a harrowing journey through realms of grief and memory, a meditation woven into a tapestry of synth pads, woodwinds, and Rex’s instantly recognizable voice. The duo of Rex and Rick Alverson who also works as a film director (The Mountain, Entertainment, The Comedy) originally set out to write an album about conflict, but during the writing and recording process, they were confronted with a number of personal tragedies. Alverson lost both of his parents in rapid succession, Rex’s mother received a cancer diagnosis, and the couple’s beloved family dog, Orca, died. These events transformed the album into an exploration of loss an attempt at processing the painful, complex, and private emotions that bubble to the surface when confronted with death. “We thought we’d do a concept album called Sides where we could reflect on all of the division in the world, and some in our own families, but then COVID transformed everything / everyone, and we suffered our own specific losses. The record became about loss and grief,” Rex explains. “In this way, the title Sides was still appropriate: our individual grief and collective grief, the margins of before and after, the act and feeling of during and enduring. It felt like straddling a threshold between two opposing sides the moment before conflict and the moment after it passes, life and death, the act of living and the memory of the act. Grief feels like a contention between what you knew and what you now know, and often both feel real and unreal at once.” Sides produced by Alverson alongside Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings) and featuring contributions from Elliot Bergman (Nomo, Wild Belle) and Joseph Shabason (Destroyer, The War on Drugs) has a distinctly cinematic quality, perhaps due in part to Alverson’s other career.Moments of jazz, slowcore, and dirgelike R&B find their way into the sorrowful, ambient suite, lulling the listener into a state of calm while the lyrics speak of ghosts, childhood, and mortality. Despite the gravity of the subject matter, Sides succeeds in mastering a balancing act between pathos and pop. Each song is indelible and haunting, with melodies that have the kind of broad appeal reminiscent of Karen Dalton, Aldous Harding, and FKA twigs. “Lean Year have managed an impressive debut.” – PITCHFORK “There’s such beautiful atmosphere to the record…It’s really stunning.” – NPR MUSIC “…a gorgeous piece of ghostly folk-rock.” – STEREOGUM Artist Lean Year Genre Rock And Pop Label Western Vinyl Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings 01 Legs 02 Nitetime 03 End 04 Trouble With Being Warm 05 Panes 06 Bend 07 Bad Woman 08 Marriage of Heaven and Hell 09 Home Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Lean Year and more from Rock And Pop Nearly New View Product Quick View Lean Year Sides Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Western Vinyl | 1LP Released 31st January 2024 £15.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lean Year Sides £15.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Western Vinyl SKU: nn280077 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 31st January 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Duran Duran POP TRASH Rock And Pop | BMG | 2LP Released 1st December 2023 £28.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Duran Duran POP TRASH £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4050538933444 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st December 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Bob Dylan Oh Mercy Rock And Pop | We Are Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 25th August 2017 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Bob Dylan Oh Mercy £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: We Are Vinyl SKU: 88985438421 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th August 2017 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Erasure The Neon Live Rock And Pop | Mute | 3LP Released 26th January 2024 £33.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Erasure The Neon Live £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mute SKU: STUMM505 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 26th January 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View David Bowie Diamond Dogs Rock And Pop | Parlophone | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 6th February 2017 £33.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders David Bowie Diamond Dogs £33.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Parlophone SKU: 190295990404 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 6th February 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Moderate Rebels If You See Something That Doesn’t Look Right Rock And Pop | Moshi Moshi | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 27th August 2021 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Moderate Rebels If You See Something That Doesn’t Look Right £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Moshi Moshi SKU: MOSHILP111B Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 27th August 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Profligate Too Numb to Know Rock And Pop | Wharf Cat | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 25th September 2020 £17.00 - £20.00 Select options Profligate Too Numb to Know £17.00 - £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Wharf Cat Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Bruce Springsteen Passaic Night, New Jersey 1978 – Vol 2 Rock And Pop | Let Them Eat Vinyl | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th June 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bruce Springsteen Passaic Night, New Jersey 1978 – Vol 2 £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Let Them Eat Vinyl SKU: LETV316LP Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pretenders Hate for Sale Rock And Pop | BMG Rights Management | 1LP Released 17th July 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pretenders Hate for Sale £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG Rights Management SKU: 4050538603576 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Motorpsycho Demon Box Rock And Pop | Rune Grammofon | 2LP Released 1st December 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Motorpsycho Demon Box £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Rune Grammofon SKU: RALP312 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st December 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View R.E.M. 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