Tell Me I’m Pretty was produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys & The Arcs. “With this record, we wanted to be more transparent,” said lead singer Matt Shultz. We wanted to capture the sentiment of each song, and whatever emotional response it provoked, to be really honest to that.” The results are the band’s most forceful …
Sound & Color [Clear Vinyl 2 X LP (Standard Weight) – Gatefold -includes download card]
Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color is the follow-up to the band’s Gold-certified debut album, Boys & Girls, which earned the group three GRAMMY nominations, including a nod for Best New Artist. Sound & Color demonstrates the tremendous strides made by a group of musicians who had only been playing together for a few months when they recorded their …
Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 release, the eagerly anticipated third full-length album from the Alt-Rock band. Melophobia was recorded in Nashville, TN and reunites the band with producer Jay Joyce who produced the group s prior two releases. The album is the follow up to 2011’s acclaimed sophomore album Thank You Happy Birthday, which debuted at #2 on the …
2014 debut album from James Keogh AKA Vance Joy; a folk/pop artist from Melbourne, Australia. Vance Joy’s love of music was inspired by his mother’s aptitude at literature and his father’s fondness of singing. His parents’ vast, eclectic record collection only served to heighten his partiality to it. After completing a university degree in law, he decided to …
Vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release, the long-awaited third studio album by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Wilder Mind marks the end of Mumford and Sons’ hiatus, which they took in 2013 after extensively touring behind Babel. The album moves away from the band’s first two albums, adding more electric guitar to the mix and emphasizing the …
It’s not often that you stumble across a songwriter whose lyrics both sound and read like poetry. When those lyrics are set to music that balances burning indignation with lilting tenderness, and delivered in a voice imbued with the spiritual passion and yearning of gospel and the blues, you figure you’ve chanced upon something special. And so it …
The War On Drugs, the Philadelphia-based project of Adam Granduciel, presents their third full-length album, the beautifully sweeping Lost In The Dream, via Secretly Canadian. Written and recorded over two-plus years in Philadelphia, North Carolina, New York and New Jersey, following almost two years of nonstop touring in support of 2011’s Slave Ambient, Lost In The Dream is …
Arguably their finest album, this follow-up to Opiate showcases Tool at their best, assisted by clean, crisp production, without the muddiness of Aenima. Edgy guitar riffs are complemented by spitting, heavy bass, especially on “Sober” and “Crawl Away”. Lyrically, Tool are at their vitriolic best, targeting religious hypocrisy (“Intolerance,” “Sober”; always a popular theme), the loss of innocence …
For their third major label release, Fall Out Boy return as twice-minted multi-platinum celebrities and deftly deliver what they came to: A huge rock album by a huge rock band. Having already lost any shred of punkdom that the ’00s strand of emo ever had, the Illinois quartet seems unfettered by their chosen genre’s boundaries and dive headlong …
