Headphones - Headphones - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 2005, Headphones arrived as a seismic shift in David Bazan's already formidable canon a collection of synth-driven confessions that push the boundaries of narrative songwriting. Stripped down to it's barest essentials, the album finds Bazan and collaborators Tim Walsh and Frank Lenz constructing an audaciously raw soundscape no guitars, just synthesizers, live drums, and Bazan's unmistakable vocals. Twenty years later, it remains a masterwork of emotional excavation and geopolitical reckoning, as relevant today as the day it was released. This 20th Anniversary edition, remastered by Christopher Colbert at National Freedom (The Walkmen, Richard Swift, Pedro the Lion), is housed in a gatefold jacket with expanded artwork by Grammy-nominated designer Jesse LeDoux, plus liner notes by writer and Belmont University Associate Professor David Dark. The self-titled album threads a delicate needle, simultaneously personal and prophetic. Songs like InchMajor CitiesInch tackle the macrocosm of American imperialism with clarity and anger, while tracks like InchI Never Wanted YouInch unearth the raw wounds of interpersonal defeat. These are stories of inner and outer collapse, of bullies (both personal and political) wreaking havoc, yet rendered with humanity. Even in it's darkest moments, though, Headphones pulses with the hope that honesty might light a way forward if only we'll bear witness to the truth.On it's twentieth anniversary, Headphones feels more vital than ever. For those who've lived with it since 2005, this reissue is a chance to revisit an old wound, to press on it and see what's healed and what still aches. For new listeners, it's a chance to sit with something audacious and true an album that invites us to reckon with the ways we fail each other and the ways we might still be good. Twenty years on, Headphones remains a rare album that doesn't just speak to yo

The Paperhead - Paperhead [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/15/2011

Two CD set. 2018 collection that combines the first three releases The Heads put out on the Rocket tag. From their first split seven-inch (with Lilydamwhite) in 1998 to their much lauded Sessions 2 freakout twelve-inch from 2002 - all compiled here in their remastered glory, The Heads we quite prolific back in the late '90s/early '00s, and in between the Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere album and Undersided album they released their jams and raw rehearsals via the burgeoning Rocket tag. Compiled here with extensive sleeve notes from Rocket founder Simon Healey, this limited set captures the band at their most laconic and free. A psychedelic sprawling morass of sound and aural distortion grooves that draw both from the band's wide influences and from simply plugging in and letting go. Album Tracks 1. Spliff Riff (Conga'd Out) 2. Neu75! 3. Disappear Into Concrete and Meat 4. Filler 5. Jellystoned Loop 1. Planet Suite 2. Longest Gone 3. KRT