Bad Suns - Accelerator - VINYL LP

This is the Show is the third studio album from Pluralone the project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer. As former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and a current member of both Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder's Earthlings alongside a lengthy resume of past contributions (Gnarls Barkely, PJ Harvey, Ataxia) Klinghoffer has been performing and recording music for most of his life. However Pluralone is the first time that he's truly showcased his many talents in one place as the sole songwriter and primary performer on every track. InchThis is the ShowInch was produced by Klinghoffer's Dot Hacker bandmate Clint Walsh who also performs on the album with appearances from Eric Gardner (Dot Hacker) and Eric Avery (Jane's Addiction). The record is an expansive step forward. A student of history Klinghoffer channeled the thematic anxieties of modern times and the tension of the post-World War II era while interpersonal relationships are dotted throughout.

The joys of Jean-Marie Leclair's Violin Sonatas Op. 2, published in 1728, five years after his first book of sonatas, can be found in the beauty of their melodic invention, and their expressive and surprising harmonies. Leclair takes us on unexpected journeys of landscape and scenery in his slow movements and excites with Italian energy and fire in the fast. Adrian Butterfield's three Naxos volumes of Leclair's Violin Sonatas, Op. 1 were acclaimed as being 'shaped by exquisite phrasing and studded with lovely Italianate ornamentation... so much to savor'.

Vinyl LP pressing. Bad Suns sound - dreamy '80s pastiche flanked by Stratocasters through cranked Vox amps, pulsing synths, and palpable rhythmic energy - that endeared listeners to the band in the first place, and their fourth LP, Apocalypse Whenever, uses that musical foundation as the jumping-off point for their next evolution. Conceived as Inchthe soundtrack to a movie that doesn't yet exist,Inch the 13-track album, helmed by longtime producer Eric Palmquist (Mutemath, Thrice) at his Palmquist Studios and the band's North Hollywood rehearsal spot, is more conceptually rigorous than anything they've ever attempted - but no less compelling or accessible. InchWe also knew we wanted the album to have a through-line, a story from beginning to end,Inch frontman Christo Bowman explains, so the band did what any good directors would They assembled a mood board, filtering their neo-noir version of Los Angeles through the dreamlike haziness of author Haruki Murakami, the futuristic flair of Terminator 2 Judgment Day and Blade Runner, and the lifted cinematography of Spike Jonze's Her. These disparate influences don't just offer Apocalypse Whenever an expanded palette of sonic choices to color Bad Sun's airtight hooks - they help give the songs an emotional complexity that works on a multitude of levels depending on how listeners choose to receive them.