Ada Lea - When I Paint My Masterpiece - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Montreal, Quebec-based musician Ada Lea is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout her debut album what we say in private, a beautifully colorful collection of profound pop songs to be released later this summer via Saddle Creek. To her, music and visual art are different vessels for communicating similar ideas. Ada Lea's appreciation of female artists - including the writer Sylvia Plath, visual artists Frida Kahlo and Eva Hesse, and musicians Karen Dalton and Nina Simone - provides inspiration and guidance, informing her use of multiple artforms as tools for self-expression. Whether it's creating music or art, InchIt's a world that I can build around me and sit inside,Inch she says. Through all her work, Ada Lea explores the concept of womanhood as it feels and looks to her, as well as love and how it transforms over time. She doesn't shy away from exploring uncomfortable and painful emotions, either. With the brightness of love, strength, and hope contrasted with the darkness of loss, suffering, isolation, and abandonment, what we say in private is a varied and vivid record that constantly seems to shift in the light, bringing together all the intricate influences she's collected over the years. What we say in private began with a need to document the ending of an important romantic relationship. Following a tormented period of staying up all night (sometimes days at a time), frantically painting or writing songs as a means of coping, she journalled for 180 days in the hope of finding herself again. She conducted this period of analysis and introspection in private, like most of her creative pursuits, and the process eventually resulted in a rebirth a rediscovery of self and a new sense of freedom and self-acceptance. These chaotic feelings and the resulting catharsis are deeply felt in the final recording of what

BEER CITY SKATEBOARDS AND RECORDS is proud to bring you the glorious reissue of Attitude Adjustment - American Paranoia - Millennium Edition LP! This is the critical debut album of this Bay Area crossover thrash/hardcore/punk band know as Attitude Adjustment. It would expose these guys to the world and forever put them on the map! This originally was released by Pushead in 1986 on his tag Pusmort. Now Beer City has brought it back in this fine reissue. Not only do you get all sixteen original tracks, but for the very first time ever it's 45RPM and restored and remastered so it sounds even more louder, brilliant and ass kicking then ever before. The fun doesn't stop there cause this album also comes with the original giant fold out poster that was only previously came with the first pressing of this LP. So if you want to own a part of crossover thrash/hardcore/punk history that's just as ass kicking and as relevant as it was when it first came out. Pick up this !Attitude Adjustment was one of the original Bay Area hardcore/punk/crossover bands that helped bridge the gap between hardcore and metal and help kickstart the 'crossover' movement. Album Tracks 1. 01A Grey World 2. 02A Dope Fiend 3. 03A Hunger & Poverty 4. 04A F**k Chuck 5. 05A Dead Serious 6. 06A Johnny 7. 07A Attitude Adjustment 8. 08A Dsfa 9. 01B American Paranoia 10. 02B Warfear 11. 03B Streetwise 12. 04B Working Class Pride 13. 05B in the Center 14. 06B Bombs 15. 07B Rambo 16. 08A Incredible End

One hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden is the name of the second album by Canadian songwriter Alexandra Levy, publicly known by the moniker Ada Lea. On one hand..., it's a collection of walking-paced, cathartic pop/folk songs, on the other it's a book of heart-twisting, rear-view stories of city life. Ada Lea has followed up the creative, indie-rock songcraft of her debut what we say in private with surprising arrangements and new perspectives. The album is set in Montreal and each song exists as a dot on a personal history map of the city where Levy grew up.Many of the songs on one hand came together with a blend of studio tracks and elements from the pre-recorded demos. The resulting sounds range from classic, soft-rock beauty to intimate finger-picked folk passages and night-drive art-pop. And the textures are frequently surprising due to the collage of lo-fi and hi-fi sounds that tastefully decorate the album without ever clouding the heart-center of the song. In their subtle, sonic variety, all of the album's songs flow together with ease into one big, romantic dream for Levy's silken vocals to float above.Inspired by personal experience, daydreams, and Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, the lyrics of one hand... center storytelling on a bigger scale. The experience and emotions of a year are communicated through Levy's vignettes of city life. These collected stories as a whole chart the unavoidable growth that comes with experience. InchAll is forgiven in time. All is forgotten in time. And when the music stopped, I heard an answerInch (from Inchmy love 4 u is realInch).one hand... is due on October 1st from Saddle Creek and Next Door Records in Canada.1. damn2. can't stop me from dying3. oranges4. partner5. saltspring6. and my newness spoke to your newness and it was a thing of endless7. my love 4 u is real8. backyard9. writer in NY10. Violen