View basket “Voice Notes” 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 Mick Harvey One Man’s Treasure / Two Of Diamonds Rock And Pop | Mute | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 28th October 2022 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mick Harvey One Man’s Treasure / Two Of Diamonds £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mute SKU: STUMM249 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th October 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fields Of The Nephilim Ceromonies Rock And Pop | EMI | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 10th April 2012 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fields Of The Nephilim Ceromonies £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: EMI SKU: SSLP0666 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 10th April 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View PJ Harvey White Chalk – Demos Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 25th June 2021 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders PJ Harvey White Chalk – Demos £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 0725350 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Django Django Glowing In The Dark Rock And Pop | Caroline | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 12th February 2021 £14.99 - £23.00 £20.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Django Django Glowing In The Dark £14.99 - £23.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Caroline Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 12th February 2021 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Heavenly The Decline And Fall Of Heavenly Rock And Pop | Skep Wax Records | 1LP Released 2nd February 2024 £21.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Heavenly The Decline And Fall Of Heavenly £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Skep Wax Records SKU: SKEPWAX019 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd February 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Wings Greatest Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 16th May 2018 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wings Greatest £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 6737240 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 16th May 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Body Type EP1 & EP2 Rock And Pop | Partisan Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 28th June 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Body Type EP1 & EP2 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Partisan Records SKU: PTKF2171-1 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 28th June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Vangelis Albedo 0.39 Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th March 2020 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Vangelis Albedo 0.39 £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2577C Formats: 180g, 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th March 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Smokey Brights Levitator Rock And Pop | Nine Mile Records | 1LP Released 7th July 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Smokey Brights Levitator £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Nine Mile Records SKU: LPNMR0561 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Miles Kane Don’t Forget Who You Are Rock And Pop | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 7th April 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Miles Kane Don’t Forget Who You Are £28.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3225 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 7th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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