View basket “Sides” 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 Kitty Liv Easy Tiger Rock And Pop | Sunday Best Recordings | 1LP Released 26th July 2024 £25.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Kitty Liv Easy Tiger £25.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sunday Best Recordings SKU: SBESTLP100 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 26th July 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Zero 7 Yeah Ghost Rock And Pop | New State | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 8th April 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Zero 7 Yeah Ghost £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: New State SKU: NEW9275LP Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 8th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Dave Grohl Sound City: Real To Reel OST Rock And Pop | RCA | 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th April 2013 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dave Grohl Sound City: Real To Reel OST £30.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: RCA SKU: RCA544992 Formats: 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th April 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Ocean Colour Scene I Just Got Over You (Etched single) Rock And Pop | Mosely Shoals | 7", Single Released 1st May 2024 £8.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Ocean Colour Scene I Just Got Over You (Etched single) £8.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Mosely Shoals SKU: nn285961 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 1st May 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Publicist UK Forgive Yourself Rock And Pop | Relapse | 180g, 1LP Released 21st August 2015 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Publicist UK Forgive Yourself £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Relapse SKU: 781676730117 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 21st August 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Mull Historical Society Loss Rock And Pop | Demon | 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 24th February 2023 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mull Historical Society Loss £32.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Demon SKU: DEMREC1028 Formats: 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 24th February 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Back In Your Life Rock And Pop | Omnivore | 1LP Released 11th November 2022 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Back In Your Life £18.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Omnivore SKU: OVLP490 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th November 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jack White Boarding House Reach Rock And Pop | XL Recordings | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 21st March 2018 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jack White Boarding House Reach £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: XL Recordings SKU: TMR540 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 21st March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Machine Gun Kelly Tickets To My Downfall Rock And Pop | Interscope | 1LP Released 12th March 2021 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Machine Gun Kelly Tickets To My Downfall £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Interscope SKU: 0736914 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th March 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View James Laid – National Album Day 2023 Rock And Pop | UMC | 2LP Released 14th October 2023 £39.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations James Laid – National Album Day 2023 £39.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 5222314 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 14th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Rock And Pop Start again
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