AWOLNATION - My Echo My Shadow My Covers & Me - VINYL LP

2024 , the sixth studio album by American rock band AWOLNATION. AWOLNATION titling the fifth album of original songs in 15 years The Phantom Five is about more than just chronology. The number 5 is associated with independence and individualism, major life changes and experiences, all of which influenced the resulting album. It's a collection of ten songs that highlights every different impulse and urge Bruno has learned to master with AWOLNATION in a cohesive, anthemic pastiche of modern music. As he himself admits, it functions almost as a Inchgreatest hitsInch album, in the sense that it offers something for everyone who has followed the band's arc in it's celebrated, shape-shifting way. The first single, InchPanoramic View,Inch stands out with it's sincerity on it's sleeve; in fact, while not necessarily a new direction for AWOL, the idea of a heartfelt ballad being the first track available to fans is emblematic of Bruno's newfound control over every aspect of an album -something that he says might not have happened in previous days. - From upstart, tongue-in-cheek blasts like InchJump Sit Stand MarchInch and InchWhen I Was YoungInch to the Roy Orbison, oldies-inspired ode to beauty and self-destruction InchA Letter to No OneInch and the jangly segue InchCity of NowhereInch calling to mind The Cars and Grandaddy, not to mention guest spots from Dead Sara's Emily Armstrong and Del the Funky Homosapien, The Phantom Five is concerned with trying to find one's way to happiness in a bizarrely upside-down time. SILVER LP Album Tracks 1. Jump Sit Stand March (Feat. Emily Armstrong) 2. Party People 3. Panoramic View 4. I Am Happy (Feat. Del the Funky Homosapian) 5. Barbarian 6. Bang Your Head 7. City of Nowhere 8. A Letter to No One 9. When I Was Young 10. Outta Here

2024 , the sixth studio album by American rock band AWOLNATION. AWOLNATION titling the fifth album of original songs in 15 years The Phantom Five is about more than just chronology. The number 5 is associated with independence and individualism, major life changes and experiences, all of which influenced the resulting album. It's a collection of ten songs that highlights every different impulse and urge Bruno has learned to master with AWOLNATION in a cohesive, anthemic pastiche of modern music. As he himself admits, it functions almost as a Inchgreatest hitsInch album, in the sense that it offers something for everyone who has followed the band's arc in it's celebrated, shape-shifting way. The first single, InchPanoramic View,Inch stands out with it's sincerity on it's sleeve; in fact, while not necessarily a new direction for AWOL, the idea of a heartfelt ballad being the first track available to fans is emblematic of Bruno's newfound control over every aspect of an album -something that he says might not have happened in previous days. - From upstart, tongue-in-cheek blasts like InchJump Sit Stand MarchInch and InchWhen I Was YoungInch to the Roy Orbison, oldies-inspired ode to beauty and self-destruction InchA Letter to No OneInch and the jangly segue InchCity of NowhereInch calling to mind The Cars and Grandaddy, not to mention guest spots from Dead Sara's Emily Armstrong and Del the Funky Homosapien, The Phantom Five is concerned with trying to find one's way to happiness in a bizarrely upside-down time. Album Tracks 1. Jump Sit Stand March 2. Party People 3. Panoramic View 4. I Am Happy 5. Barbarian 6. Bang Your Head 7. City of Nowhere 8. A Letter to No One 9. When I Was Young 10. Outta Here

Bruce Levingston writes of his new InchThe genesis of this recording was an invitation to perform for the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, an event which inspired me to meditate on the complex history of my birthplace, Mississippi. A storied, culturally-rich state, it has produced some of our country's most important artists - including William Faulkner, B.B. King, Leontyne Price, and Eudora Welty - but is also a place that has witnessed notably painful struggles with race, poverty, and equality. The scars are painful and deep. Here, among our colleges, churches, cotton fields and battlefields, contradictions abound. These disparate, but related, elements have long absorbed and confounded artists born in this mystical place. In recent years, I have come to see that my beloved state only reveals more intensely what exists in other places in our world the struggle for people to come to terms with one another's histories and differences. In this time of turmoil between peoples and nations, focused on issues of citizenship and patriotism, we continue this struggle. I chose to name this album InchCitizen,Inch not only because it contains works that reflect upon actual citizenship and human rights, but also to highlight that we are all citizens of one earth, and in order to survive, we must find ways to respect one another's differences, and strongly uphold each other's right to exist with dignity and freedom. On this recording, I have gathered together works by composers who have contemplated these issues deeply. The voices of these artists plead for civility, humanity, and love, and each brings a sense of immediacy to the cause - offering not a clenched fist, but an open hand that reaches out with a welcoming embrace.Inch Album Tracks 1. American Citizen 2. Summerland 3. Three Mazurkas 4. Accumulation of Purpose [Six Studies for Solo Piano]