Heather Woods Broderick - Labyrinth - White & Gray - VINYL LP

On Labyrinth, Heather Woods Broderick serves as our reflective host, subverting expectations of conventional songcraft with impressionistic language and quietly relentless explorations of the human experience that's at once light and dark, more circular and less linear. InchMany of us yearn for stillness and peace, as an escape from the movement all around us,Inch she explains when asked about the themes of the album. InchYet movement is perpetual, happening all the time on some level. It's as wild as the wind, yet eternally predictable in it's inevitability. It is linear in part, but infinite in it's circuitry. Our lives just punctuate it.InchBroderick began crafting Labyrinth in March 2020, when most forms of move- ment were brought to a screeching halt. The Maine-born, Los Angeles-based songwriter - who, in addition to her work as a solo musician, built a life playing and touring with acts such as Sharon Van Etten, Beth Orton, Damien Jurado, and Efterklang - was suddenly forced off the road for the first time in her career. She used this disruption as an opportunity to pare down her creation process and construct the scaffolding for Labyrinth in her apartment. Employing only the most crucial tools at her disposal, Broderick found herself opening different artistic doors as she focused on sharpening her recording skills, capturing the majority of the album on her own before finishing the remainder with co-producer D. James Goodwin.For all of Broderick's sage lyricism and vocal authority, Labyrinth never provides the listener with any easy answers. If the image of the labyrinth represents the enormity of modern life and the difficulty of navigating it, Heather Woods Broder- ick provides a guide to it's endless kinetic wonders - of being present, aware, and connected despite it's disconnects. She describes the texture of it's walls, it's indifferent rhythms, and the i

When was the last time you heard a blues-rock record that paid tribute to the Ramones and Lemmy alongside Howlin' Wolf and Chuck Berry?On their new album InchBlues RevolutionInch, Cirkus Prütz want to disarm the world with the combined support of blues and love.With their roots in blues, hard rock and punk, the band is not afraid to break the rules. No one tells them what they should or shouldn't do. They push the limits and break new ground..Cirkus Prütz take us from their Swedish home without detours on a hot road trip through Texas with Queens Of The Stoneage, Muddy Waters and ZZ Top on the car radio.All songs on InchBlues RevolutionInch were composed by the band together. As was the case with 2019's previous album InchWhite Jazz - Black MagicInch, guitarist Franco Santunione (Electric Boys, Glory Bells Band) took over the production.It's bluesy, it swings and it's in the here and now.

Limited 180gm yellow colored vinyl LP pressing. End, the enigmatic 2023 album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death. InchOur starting point was the concept of an ending-death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we've all expanded on and made it's own world. Maybe it's our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation-the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next,Inch says the band about the album. End is perhaps the InchgrandestInch Explosions In The Sky album - melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music.