Ensemble Economique - Radiate Through You - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

If you could go back in time ten years, what would you want to tell yourself? This was a question Khruangbin posed to themselves when approaching the ten-year anniversary of their debut album, the once cult classic, now genre-defining work The Universe Smiles Upon You. InchIf we could go back and tell ourselves how much was going to happen to us after that record, what would we want to celebrate?Inch asked Laura Lee, bassist, vocalist, and founding member of the band. Instead, they thought InchLet's do it again.Inch The Universe Smiles Upon You ii was recorded on January 4-6, 2025, in the same family barn of guitarist Mark Speer, across the same dates where TUSUY was first conceived ten years earlier. Though the conditions were the same-dirt floor, brutally cold, minimal sound isolation, all takes live-the songs aren't. They're re-approached, some changed more than others, harnessing the lightning-in-a-bottle energy of TUSUY while discovering what would be unique this time around, in this stage of the band's life. The result moves like ripples on the water across ten hypnotizing tracks, the barn creating a sense of spaciousness, serenity and creative freedom, nearby wildlife (listen out for the birds on InchAugust Twelve iiInch), rattles and creaks of the barn and all. It's a tapestry of small movements in nuanced arrangements, slowly revealing the new life, stories and character of someoneyou've met again for the first time in ten years.

Ensemble Economique - In Silhouette [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/31/2017

The 1st retrospective collection of their 16 greatest hits from their entire career; from the Pure Mania and V2 era to now, plus a bonus live 2010 cut! Contains 4 songs each from the 1991 Greenhouse Studios Sessions of key tracks from InchPure ManiaInch (voted one of Spin's Top 50 Punk Albums) and the possibly greater InchV2Inch. Plus, Greatest Punk Hits contains 7 crucial tracks spanning the decades since.