Pure X - Crawling Up the Stairs - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

29 tracks, 22 domestic CD debuts (wow, where to begin?)! Includes the Theme from InchGiantInch Les Baxter & Orchestra & Chorus; Little Dipper Mickey Mozart Quintet; the Poor People of Paris Lawrence Welk & His Sparkling Sextet; 11th Hour Melody Lou Busch & Orchestra & Chorus; Fascination David Carroll & Orchestra; My Beloved Otto Cesana & Orchestra; Around the World (single version) Mantovani; Almost Paradise Lou Stein; Joey's Song BIll Haley & the Comets; the Petticoats of Portugal Dick Jacobs & Orchestra & Chorus; Theme from InchThe Threepenny OperaInch (Moritat) Richard Hayman & Jan August; March from the River Kwai & Colonel Bogey (stereo) Mitch Miller & Orchestra, and more. Out September 18!

Pure X is the last band, has always been the last band. Not that there won't be future acts, more that Pure X understands that all this pageantry, this civilization is wrapping up. It burned hot and bright like thermite used to bust a safe open, but now is the age of radiating waves, each one buckles the foundation more than the last.Recorded live in single takes in the Texas hill country by Danny Reisch (Shearwater), this is their clearest, most focused work to date. The rhythm section is locked in-a night train through the desert. There is more singing, the weary wisdom of the lyrics ringing like Tibetan bowls. In 38 minutes, Pure X weave a culmination, all the delays and distortion, the grinding mortar of touring, the low-tide pulling them out from a cult band, to a legacy band, it's here, understood and forgiven.The album's cover (designed by long time collaborator Christopher Royal King) depicts a coffin necklace set against a wide open blue sky. It's as if we carry our mortality like a pendant on a chain. Learning to own up and accept ourselves through self reflection. It would be understandable to express such forbidden fatalism in a brittle, harsh nihilism, the stark echo of a stone rattling down an endless well. But on this album, their fourth and first in six years, there is a pre-dawn kindness. It may be funereal, but it is a Viking pyre ablaze in the middle of a river, one of those moments when the water seems to pause and reflect the clouds blooming like smoke from an invisible glass pipe.01. Middle America02. Hollywood03. Angels Of Love04. Free My Heart05. Making History06. Fantasy07. Man With No Head08. How Good Does It Get09. Slip Away10. Grieving Song11. Stayed Too Long12. i Can Dream

Crawling Up The Stairs is the sophomore album from Austin underground luminaries Pure X, re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Fire Talk. The anticipated follow-up to debut 'Pleasure,' the new record places Nate Grace's ragged vocals upfront in the mix with more clearcut, refined production choices, while still imbued with the jagged sexual tension and undercurrent of catastrophe that has won them fans across the world. More accolades from the press followed, notably Pitchfork calling the record Inchsophisticated and self aware,Inch lending a further upward trajectory to the band's steadfast cult status. The duality of vocals from Grace and Jenkins for the first time evoke an even more enthralling immediacy to Pure X's continued evolution of their nightmarish visions, a spellbinding combination that will find appeal in old fans and new listeners alike.01. Crawling Up The Stairs 02. Someone Else 03. Written In The Slime 04.I Fear What I Feel 05. Things In My Head 06. Shadows And Lies 07. I Come From Nowhere 08. Never Alone 09. How Did You Find Me 10. Thousand Year Old Child 11. Rain At Dawn 12. All Of The Future (All Of The Past)