Balance & Composure - Separation - Transparent Green - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. Light We Made, which was produced by Will Yip (Nothing, Pity S*x), marks a milestone for the band, as this time around they've toned down their hardcore and punk-rock roots, to present a body of work that is dominated by soothing, harmonic tracks. The LP's coherent mood of transcendent moments are driven by the band experimenting with new sonic elements - weaving in dreamy synth chords, melodic guitar riffs, and atmospheric bass grooves and drum beats to hit home the delivery of the songs' emotional lyrics. Album Tracks 1. Midnight Zone 2. Spinning 3. Afterparty 4. For a Walk 5. Mediocre Love 6. Postcard 7. Call It Losing Touch 8. Fame 9. Is It So Much to Adore? 10. Loam

According to Balance and Composure, they can be loud, quiet and everything in between. A pretty apt description in a nutshell. A sonic assault melding influences such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Neutral Milk Hotel and Nirvana, their 2011, critically heralded debut album, Separation, helped establish Balance and Composure as one of underground rock's most promising newcomers. Picking up where Separation left off, Balance and Composure return once again to push the boundaries of their music with driving riffs and intensely passionate vocals on the band's second studio album, The Things We Think We're Missing. It's the type of record that makes listeners pause and reflect, evoking moments of happiness and sadness over the course of 13 songs.Upon it's debut The Things We Think We're Missing would hit #51 on the Billboard 200 and be lauded as Inchone of the best albums of the yearInch by multiple publications. In 2023, the band reunited and set to their fourth studio album in October 2024. For Fans Of Citizen, Turnover, Tigers Jaw, Touché Amoré, Sunny Day Real EstateVinyl color baby pink Album Tracks 1. Parachutes 2. Lost Your Name 3. Back of Your Head 4. Tiny Raindrop 5. Notice Me 6. Ella 7. Cut Me Open 8. Reflection 9. I'm Swimming 10. When I Come Undone 11. Dirty Head 12. Keepsake 13. Enemy

Having crested the west coast modular-ambient wave in just a few releases- including 2018's Sharing Waves on the influential LA experimental imprint Leaving Records- Sean Hellfritsch has swapped the mossy analog synth improvisations of his prior output for refined melodic arrangements dressed in sprightly dawn-of-digital textures. Big Earth Energy plumbs the depths of Hellfritsch's multimedia mind and naturalist heart, spinning an impressionistic narrative world off of cultural touchstones like the PC game MYST, and the work of Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi. Inspired by the aforementioned, and guided by Hellfritsch's experience as an animator and filmmaker, Big Earth Energy is the soundtrack to a hypothetical video game with a pointedly ecological premise, and a twist of psychedelic charm. In Hellfritsch's imagined virtual journey, the player assumes the perspective of a treefrog sixty-five-million years ago, hopping epochs with each new level, forming a comprehensive picture of the massive hanges the planet has gone through over the eons. The ultimate goal of the game is not to amass resources, defeat enemies, or gain power, but to fully witness the unfolding of one of the biggest systems of energy imaginable- or as the album's creator puts it- Inchto explore the incomprehensibly vast energetic expression and mystery that is Earth.Inch Big Earth Energy is steeped in exploratory RPG intrigue, possibility, and contemplation, lovingly overlaid with Miyazaki-an sentiments and aesthetics. The through-composed, organic, meandering synthesis heard on previous Cool Maritime albums has been fully replaced by meticulous polygonal arrangements that recall the computerized sheen of late 80s work by composers like Hiroshi Yoshimura, and Yoichiro Yoshikawa- using true-to-period gear no less. Even given it's referentiality, Big Earth Energy comes off as forward-facing where s