The National
I Am Easy To Find
Regular LP is on 180g black vinyl. Indies exclusive LP is on clear vinyl, (limited edition, one pressing only) Triple LP deluxe is red/grey/yellow coloured vinyl. The 3rd disc contains 22 minutes of music from the 'I Am Easy To Find Original Film Score' and is exclusive to this format with an etching on the B-side. Packaged in a tri-fold jacket and housed in a printed plastic sleeve. Includes a 24" x 24" poster + 24 page booklet. (limited edition, one pressing only) The hugely anticipated new full length album from The National, following on from their Grammy Award winning 2017 album Sleep Well Beast. As the album’s opening track, ‘You Had Your Soul With You,’ unfurls, it’s so far, so National: a digitally manipulated guitar line, skittering drums, Berninger’s familiar baritone, mounting tension. Then around the 2:15 mark, the true nature of I Am Easy To Findannounces itself: The racket subsides, strings swell, and the voice of long-time David Bowie bandmate Gail Ann Dorsey booms out—not as background vocals, not as a hook, but to take over the song. Elsewhere it’s Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, or Sharon Van Etten, or Mina Tindle or Kate Stables of This Is the Kit, or varying combinations of them. The Brooklyn Youth Choir, whom Bryce Dessner had worked with before. There are choral arrangements and strings on nearly every track, largely put together by Bryce in Paris—not a negation of the band’s dramatic tendencies, but a redistribution of them.
4AD
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Ex:Re
Ex:Re
The highly anticipated solo record from Daughter vocalist, Elena Tonra, under the moniker Ex:Re. A haunting and deeply personal record that's a must for fans of The National, The xx, Bon Iver, London Grammar and Daughter.
Elena said of the album, “Although the record is written for someone, a lot of the time it’s about the space without that person in it. In every scenario, there's either the person in memory or the noticeable absence of that person in the present moment. I suppose it is a break-up record, however I do not talk about the relationship at all, and he hardly features in the scenes. He is only felt as a ghostly presence.”
4AD
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This Mortal Coil
Blood
Landing at the start of a new decade, after much had happened in both producer Ivo Watts-Russell’s life and with his 4AD label, the fi nal part of the This Mortal Coil trilogy, Blood (1991), felt like a perfect conclusion.
Meticulously orchestrated, vocalists Alison Limerick, Deirdre and Louise Rutkowski return from the second album with Caroline Crawley (Shelleyan Orphan / Babacar) and 4AD signees Heidi Berry, Kim Deal (Pixies / The Breeders), Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses / The Breeders / Belly) and Pieter Nooten all signed up.
“Shedding some of its chillier post-punk components, blos- soming into material airy and gorgeous. Covers - many from the psychedelic era - still dominate the material, but they are largely indistinguishable from the originals, so seamless is (it’s) indelible tone. Blood is a treasure.” Consequence of Sound
4AD
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