ETHAN P. FLYNN
ABANDON ALL HOPE
CD / LP / LTD LP
- In Silence / 02. Abandon All Hope / 03. Clutching Your Pearls / 04. No Shadow / 05. Leaving The Boys Behind / 06. Bad Weather / 07. Crude Oil / 08. Demolition
“Being an artist, being someone who spends time alone, it is hard not to have feelings of paranoia. You need a delusion of grandeur to make anything in the first place, and that feeds into it…Letting go is a strong aspect of this album. I was doing failed perfectionism before trying to sound chaotic while actually being very controlled. This time I was in the studio playing not trying to make things perfect. That’s not what I’m meant for.”
So begins the story of Ethan P. Flynn’s debut album Abandon All Hope, which pours twenty-four years’ worth of experience into songs that recall 70s greats like Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson while dealing with coming of age, friendship, falling in and out of love, navigating the age of anxiety and aspects of young life in the 21st century. All delivered with an emotional intensity that’s rare in an age when the feeling that all has been said and done draws us toward postmodern, ironic detachment.
Available on limited clear blue coloured vinyl.
Label: YOUNG
A. SAVAGE
SEVERAL SONGS ABOUT FIRE
CD / LP / LTD LP
- Hurtin’ Or Healead / 02. Elvis in the Army / 03. Le Grand Balloon / 04. My My My Dear / 05. Riding Cobbles / 06. Mountain Time / 07. David’s Dead / 08. Thanksgiving Prayer / 09. My New Green Coat / 10. Out Of Focus
“I imagine myself playing these songs in a small club that is slowly burning,” says A. Savage of his second solo record, Several Songs about Fire. After more than a decade in New York, the co-frontman of Parquet Courts has left the city, marking his exit with a masterpiece of maturity and a worthy corollary to his first solo venture, 2017’s Thawing Dawn. “Fire is something you have to escape from. This album is a burning building, and these songs are things I’d leave behind to save myself.”
Produced by John Parish on a 1” 16-track in just ten days in Bristol and studded by the support of Cate Le Bon and Jack Cooper (Modern Nature, Ultimate Painting) as well as saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood (Cate Le Bon), drummer Dylan Hadley (Kamikaze Palm Tree, White Fence), and violinist Magdalena McLean (Caroline), Savage’s outsize gifts as a lyricist and observer – a quality Parish calls “an emotional openness guarded by a laconic wit” – shine. Worrying questions of wealth and poverty, self and other, Savage displays the poet’s gift of knowing when to narrate and when to vanish, leaving the listener to their own emotional privacy rather than instructing them how to feel.
Available on limited purple coloured vinyl.
Label: ROUGH TRADE
MOONSHAKE
EVA LUNA DELUXE EDITION
DLX 2LP
A1. City Poison / A2. Sweetheart / A3. Spaceship Earth / A4. Beautiful Pigeon / A5. Mugshot Heroine / B1. Wanderlust / B2. Tar Baby / B3. Seen & Not Heard / B4. Bleach & Salt Water / B5. Little Thing / C1. Secondhand Clothes / C2. Blister / C3. Beeside / C4. Home Survival Kit / C5. Drop In The Ocean / D1. Coming (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) / D2. Beautiful Pigeon (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) / D3. Sweetheart (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session) / D4. Mugshot Heroine (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session)
Label: BEGGARS BANQUET
PALE SAINTS
IN RIBBONS DELUXE
2CD / LP
[CD1] 01. Throwing Back The Apple / 02. Ordeal / 03. Thread of Light / 04. Shell / 05. There Is No Day / 06. Hunted / 07. Hair Shoes / 08. Babymaker / 09. Liquid / 10. Neverending Night / 11. Featherframe / 12. A Thousand Stars Burst Open
[CD2] 01. Babymaker (Demo) / 02. Kinky Love (Demo) / 03. Hair Shoes (Demo) / 04. Shell (Demo) / 05. Hunted (Demo) / 06. Featherframe (Demo) / 07. Blue Flower (Demo) / 08. Throwing Back The Apple (Demo) / 09. Ordeal (Demo) / 10. Untitled Instrumental (Demo) / 11. A Thousand Stars Burst Open (Tintwistle Band Version) / 12. A Revelation (Tintwistle Band Version)
[LP] A1. Throwing Back The Apple / A2. Ordeal / A3. Thread of Light / A4. Shell / A5. There Is No Day / A6. Hunted / B1. Hair Shoes / B2. Babymaker / B3. Liquid / B4. Neverending Night / B5. Featherframe / B6. A Thousand Stars Burst Open
[DLX 2LP] A1. Throwing Back The Apple / A2. Ordeal / A3. Thread of Light / A4. Shell / A5. There Is No Day / A6. Hunted / B1. Hair Shoes / B2. Babymaker / B3. Liquid / B4. Neverending Night / B5. Featherframe / B6. A Thousand Stars Burst Open / C1. Babymaker (Demo) / C2. Kinky Love (Demo) / C3. Hair Shoes (Demo) / C4. Shell (Demo) / C5. Hunted (Demo) / C6. Featherframe (Demo) / D1. Blue Flower (Demo) / D2. Throwing Back The Apple (Demo) / D3. Ordeal (Demo) / D4. Untitled Instrumental (Demo) / D5. A Thousand Stars Burst Open (Tintwistle Band Version) / D6. A Revelation (Tintwistle Band Version)
Missing its original release date last year due to Covid delays and production plant woes, In Ribbons, which Pitchfork named one of The Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves.
[Deluxe 2LP] The first disc features the UK version of the album with the second featuring a bonus disc of never before heard demos that include their first attempt at Slapp Happy’s ‘Blue Flower’ and Ian Masters’ rare 4 track recording of their beloved Nancy Sinatra cover ‘Kinky Love,’. Additionally, the bonus disc features two brass band versions by The Tintwistle Band (previously only heard on a limited, bonus 7” with the initial UK LP pressing). Limited unpigmented vinyl.
Label: 4AD
