Purr - Like New - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

An indie pop duo whose music has a cool retro vibe buoyed by smooth melodies, a naturalistic sound, and warm harmonies, Purr is a collaboration between songwriters, musicians, and longtime friends Eliza Barry Callahan and Jack Staffen. The two previously worked together as Jack + Eliza, but while that project emphasized spare and stripped-down accompaniment, Purr's recordings feature a fuller sound with a larger palette of instrumental flavors that often references '60s pop. Purr introduced themselves to the world with a 2018 single, InchBad AdviceInch b/w InchPainted Memory,Inch that showed off their talents as both writers and vocalists, and they further refined their style on their first full-length album, 2020's Like New and continue that on forthcoming album 'Who Is Afraid Of Blue?'To make it, the duo teamed up with their close friend, producer Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty, The Killers), whom they worked with on 'Like New.' They went to his NorthHollywood studio, a small building behind his home. This was during Omicron, so they keptrecording small, just the three of them in a room for most of the time. Programmed drums on an 808, that kind of thing. While they recorded, they screened movies. Ranging from Barbara Loden's Wanda, to Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, to Dr. Strange and The Avengers. It all provided texture to the songs. Like making a score. InchIt's a really hermetic record,Inch says Staffen, Inchwhich ended up feeling really special.InchSonically, 'Who is Afraid of Blue?' isn't beholden by genre. It is an omnivorous record-you can hear glimmers of Aimee Mann, Radiohead, the Cocteau Twins which is fitting because 'Blue' is in some ways a record of their process of falling in love with music all over again. 'Who is Afraid of Blue?' also exists lightly in conversation with a short novel Callahan wrote (forthcoming via Catapult, 2024),

All Of Us Right Now! Is the ninth full-length from Seattle psych-rock mainstays The Purrs - a record charged with urgency, friction, and hard-won endurance. Formed in 2000 after filling their lineup via a classified ad in The Stranger, the band has spent 25 years refining a galvanized blend of Brit-pop shimmer, blues-soaked shoegaze, and nocturnal punk romanticism. InchI've never been more depressed and angrier in my life,Inch says bassist and lead vocalist Jima - and that tension fuels the record. All Of Us Right Now! #channels the disorientation of the COVID years and political fracture - chaos that fueled a creative stall, and the band clawed their way out of it. That hard-won return is all over this record. All four members contribute to the songwriting guitarists Jason and Liz trade shimmer and abrasion while drummer Dusty drives with crisp restraint. Midway through, the band delivers a shoegaze-leaning take on Robyn Hitchcock's InchQueen Elvis.Inch Produced by Johnny Sangster (Mudhoney, The Posies) and mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant, the album's haze is grounded in clarity. After nearly three decades, The Purrs remain emotionally unvarnished - romantic, restless, and very much awake.

The multi-platinum career of the famed small town boy from Indiana hits home with the 1st ever retrospective from John Mellencamp. The Best That I Can Do features 16 songs that have changed the face of pop music; from his 1st hit InchI Need a LoverInch to the landmark InchPink Houses,Inch then InchCherry BombInch; from the anthemic InchR.O.C.K. in the USAInch and InchJack And DianeInch to the recent #1 hit InchWild NightInch and more. The collection is highlighted by a new song, InchWithout Expression,Inch serviced to rock, Top 40, AC and AAA radio.