View basket “By Numbers” 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 Edgar Winter Group They Only Come Out At Night Blues | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 5th June 2020 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Edgar Winter Group They Only Come Out At Night £23.00 Genre: Blues Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP2570 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th June 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Emeli Sande Our Version Of Events Rock And Pop | UMC | 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released 18th October 2016 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Emeli Sande Our Version Of Events £24.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: UMC SKU: 5701271 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 18th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Pattern Forms, The Peel Away The Ivy Electronica | Ghost Box | 180g, 1LP Released 19th October 2016 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Pattern Forms, The Peel Away The Ivy £15.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ghost Box SKU: GBX027LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 19th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Yazmin Lacey Voice Notes Rock And Pop | On Your Own Records | 2LP Released 3rd March 2023 £23.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Yazmin Lacey Voice Notes £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: On Your Own Records SKU: OYO002LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 3rd March 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Wannadies, The Västerbotten Rock And Pop | Startracks | 2LP, 3LP Released 17th June 2022 £47.00 - £55.00 Select options Wannadies, The Västerbotten £47.00 - £55.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Startracks Formats: 2LP, 3LP Released Date: 17th June 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Belako Plastic Drama (Deluxe Edition) Rock And Pop | BMG | 2LP Released 8th April 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Belako Plastic Drama (Deluxe Edition) £23.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: BMG SKU: 4050538779172 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 8th April 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Guns 'N' Roses Appetite For Destruction Rock And Pop | Geffen | 180g, 1LP Released 5th July 2001 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Guns 'N' Roses Appetite For Destruction £26.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Geffen SKU: 4241481 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 5th July 2001 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Tullycraft The Railway Prince Hotel Rock And Pop | HHBTM Records | 1LP Released 8th February 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tullycraft The Railway Prince Hotel £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: HHBTM Records SKU: HHBTM196 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Little Feat & Friends Little Feat & Friends Rock And Pop | Air Cuts | 1LP Released 1st July 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Little Feat & Friends Little Feat & Friends £17.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Air Cuts SKU: ACLP7019 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Spencer Are U Down? 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