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Bully
SUGAREGG
The third full length album from the awesome garage / indie-rockers BULLY, following on from the excellent 2017 record, Losing.
A very old saying goes that no one saves us but ourselves. Recognizing and breaking free from the patterns impeding our forward progress can be transformative — just ask Bully’s Alicia Bognanno. Indeed, the third Bully album, SUGAREGG, may not ever have come to fruition had Bognanno not navigated every kind of upheaval imaginable and completely overhauled her working process along the way.
“There was change that needed to happen and it happened on this record,” she says. “Derailing my ego and insecurities allowed me to give these songs the attention they deserved.”
SUGAREGG roars from the speakers and jumpstarts both heart and mind. Like My Bloody Valentine after three double espressos, opener “Add It On” zooms heavenward within seconds, epitomizing Bognanno’s newfound clarity of purpose, while the bass-driven melodies and propulsive beats of “Where to Start” and “Let You” are the musical equivalents of the sun piercing through a perpetually cloudy sky.
On songs like the strident “Every Tradition” and “Not Ashamed,” Bognanno doesn’t shy away from addressing “how I feel as a human holds up against what society expects or assumes of me as a woman, and what it feels like to naturally challenge those expectations.”
But amongst the more dense topics, there’s also a lightheartedness that was lacking on Bully’s last album, 2017’s Losing. Pointing to “Where to Start,” “You” and “Let You,” Bognanno says “there are more songs about erratic, dysfunctional love in an upbeat way, like, ‘I’m going down and that’s the only way I want to go because the momentary joy is worth it.’”
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CD | LP
Washed Out
Purple Noon
Indies exclusive LP is on 'purple' coloured vinyl.
Both LPs include a download code.
Washed Out is Atlanta-based producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Ernest Greene. Over three enchanting, critically-lauded albums and an EP, his music has proved both transportive and visual, each release inviting listeners into immersive, self-contained universes. With Purple Noon, his fourth album, and his return to Sub Pop, he delivers the most accessible Washed Out creation to date.
Life of Leisure, Washed Out’s 2009 debut EP, set the bar for the Chillwave era, shimmering in a warm haze of off-the-cuff Polaroids and pre-IG filters. Within and Without, his 2011 full-length debut on Sub Pop, morphed into nocturnal, icy synth-pop and embraced provocative imagery. 2013’s Paracosm was Greene’s take on psychedelia, with a full live band and kaleidoscopic light show, and saw him playing to the largest audiences of his career. The sample-heavy Mister Mellow (2017, Stone’s Throw) delivered a 360 audio/visual experience, with cut-n-paste and hand-drawn animation to match the hip-hop influences throughout the album. With each release, Greene has approached his evolving project with meticulous detail and a steadfast vision. For Purple Noon, Greene again wrote, recorded, and produced the entirety of the album, with mixing handled by frequent collaborator Ben H. Allen (Paracosm, Within and Without). Production of the album followed a brief stint of writing for other artists (most notably Sudan Archives) which enabled Greene to explore genres like R&B and modern pop. These brighter, more robust sounds made their way into the songs of Purple Noon and mark a new chapter for Greene as a producer and songwriter. The vocals are front and center, tempos are slower, beats bolder, and there’s a more comprehensive depth of dynamics. One can hear the luxuriousness of Sade, the sonic bombast of Phil Collins, and the lush atmosphere of the great Balearic beat classics. Mediterranean coastlines inspired Purple Noon, and Greene pays tribute to the region’s distinct island culture - all rugged elegance and old-world charm - and uses it as a backdrop to tell stories of passion, love, and loss (Purple Noon’s title comes from the 1960 film directed by Rene Clement and based on the novel The Talented Mister Ripley by Patricia Highsmith). Much like romantic Hollywood epics, the melodrama throughout is strong: a serendipitous first meeting in “Too Late”; a passionate love affair in “Paralyzed”; disintegration of a relationship in “Time to Walk Away”; a reunion with a lost love in “Game of Chance.” Purple Noon adds a layer of emotional intensity to the escapism of Washed Out’s oeuvre, taking the music to dazzling new heights.
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CD | LP
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Acquired Taste (postal service, shins)
I mean, who wouldn't want this?? Though no one would likely ever guess it from watching what we'll broadly refer to as "Music Television," we at Sub Pop have, over the past several years, made quite a few music videos. Some of them are even pretty good! Not at all coincidentally, those are the videos we've opted to include here. There are 25 of them in all, ranging from the first video Sub Pop made for The Shins' "New Slang" back in 2001 (featuring, in the recreation of (part of) the cover of Sonic Youth's Sister, a near-glimpse of Marty's bush) through Mudhoney's video for "It Is Us" (which, is so new as to not even be finished as I type this). Also found here are such gems as the best, yet least-seen Hot Hot Heat video ("No Not Now"), that Constantines video with the raccoons and the peanut butter ("Nighttime/Anytime"), the original versions Chad VanGaalen did (he's an animator too!) both for his own "Clinically Dead," and for Love as Laughter's "Dirty Lives." And, to take the mystery out of the usually purposefully vague category of SO MUCH MORE: Wolf Parade, Ugly Casanova, Rogue Wave, The Thermals, The Album Leaf, The Helio Sequence, Fruit Bats, Rosie Thomas, Low, Jennifer Gentle, Kinski, The Elected, and 2 each from Sleater-Kinney, Iron & Wine, The Shins, and The Postal Service. Track Listing: 1. The Shins New Slang 2. Ugly Casanova Things I Don't Remember 3. Iron and Wine Southern Anthem 4. The Postal Service Such Great Heights 5. Hot Hot Heat No Not Now 6. Constantines Nighttime/Anytime 7. Iron and Wine Naked as We Came 8. The Thermals How We Know 9. The Album Leaf On Your Way 10. The Postal Service We Will Become Silhouettes 11. The Shins Pink Bullets 12. Low - Death of a Salesman 13. Jennifer Gentle I Do Dream You 14. The Helio Sequence Dont Look Away 15. Kinski Wives of Artie Shaw 16. Sleater-Kinney Entertain 17. Sleater-Kinney Jumpers 18. Rosie Thomas Pretty Dress 19. Chad VanGaalen Clinically Dead 20. Love as Laughter Dirty Lives 21. Fruit Bats Lives of Crime 22. Wolf Parade Shine A Light 23. The Elected Not Going Home 24. Rogue Wave Publish My Love 25. Mudhoney It Is Us
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