Sharon Van Etten - I Don't Want to Let You Down - VINYL LP

Poolside began as a recording project in a converted Los Angeles backyard pool house in early 2011, producing sunny tracks of subaquatic indie dance music in this makeshift recording studio. Surfacing first in the form of a YouTube video for the catchy track InchDo You Believe?Inch Poolside were soon gaining local and national attention, with DJs like by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, techno legend Derrick May, and disco don Todd Terje spinning these tracks at events and a growing online following. Throughout 2011 Poolside continued making waves with a sound called Inchdaytime discoInch through tracks like a cover of Neil Young's InchHarvest MoonInch as well as original tunes. In 2012 Poolside worked on a remix for longtime disco punks The Rapture and held fans over with a new single and video for a song called InchSlow DownInch as they prepared to their debut album. That album, Pacific Standard Time, was released in July of 2012 on their own Day & Night tag. After the album's , remixes for artists like Matthew Dear, Little Dragon and Fool's Gold soon followed, rehearsing and touring with a live band, and doing DJ sets around the world. Eventually, as thoughts turned to a second album, Poolside went on ice for a year; to regroup. Beginning to work in earnest on another album Fall of 2016. While still revolving around the sunny, laid-back disco sound of PST, additions of uptempo dance songs and more guitars, and generally fleshed out the arrangements with more instruments and sounds.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 . For transcendent folk-pop artist Shannon Lay, the river is the metaphor driving her album, the exquisitely uplifting August, which doubles as an aural baptism renewing her purpose for making music. InchI always picture music as this river. Everyone's throwing things into this river, it's a place you can go to and feed off of that energy,Inch she says, Inchand feel nourished by the fact that so many people are feeling what you're feeling. It's this beautiful exchange.Inch The album's name, August, refers to the month in 2017 when Lay quit her day job and fully gave herself over to music. This was her liberation as an artist, and the album is devoted to paying that forward to her listeners.

From the off, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is sonically different from Van Etten's previous work. Writing and recording in total collaboration with her band for the first time, Van Etten finds the freedom that comes by letting go. The result of that liberation is an exhilarating new dimension of sound and songwriting. The themes are timeless, classic Sharon - life and living, love and being loved - but the sounds are new, wholly realized and sharp as glass.Reflecting on this new artistic frame of mind, Van Etten muses, InchSometimes it's exciting, sometimes it's scary, sometimes you feel stuck. It's like every day feels a little different - just being at peace with whatever you're feeling and whoever you are and how you relate to people in that moment. If I can just keep a sense of openness while knowing that my feelings change every day, that is all I can do right now. That and try to be the best person I can be while letting other people be who they are and not taking it personally and just being. I'm not there, but I'm trying to be there every day.InchSharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory is a quantum leap in that direction.- Lol Tolhurst