The Deer - Do No Harm (Color Vinyl) - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 from Austin folkies The Deer (formerly known as Grace Park & The Deer. Do No Harm is their fourth album overall and the first for the Keeled Scales tag. Album Tracks 1. Confetti to the Hurricane 2. Move to Girls 3. Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt 4. Dissolve 5. Swoon 6. Stark Raven 7. Chill Veil 8. How Not to Die 9. Prelude to the Interstellar Frontier 10. Walking in Space

Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download. InchTwenty years now there's been this thing, our band, Joan of Arc. Sometimes we forget about it and let it fizzle out for a year while we tend to our lives. Sometimes we cling to it for a year and wake up surprised and exhausted every day for months on end, given walking tours of old Italian towns, browsing dreary British pedestrian malls or barefooted organic grocers on the Pacific coast. We know how lucky we are. InchThe less we feel like a band - the more we can continue to be a band, but escape that feeling of doing all those shitty, corny things expected of bands - the truer to ourselves we feel. And you all know it, everyone knows it even if everyone has to bury it to get on with their day-to-day the truer to ourselves we feel, the better everything gets. We have shifted shapes and modified our approaches quite a number of times in the course of twenty years. And we've done so always aiming to stay true to ourselves at that moment, by instinct and with conscious intent. This time, it took us a long time to figure out how to start back up. We threw away a lot of songs and started over, over and over.

Canadian singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Leif Vollebekk is a philosophy student turned troubadour who marries Carl Jung's I Ching musings and Wittgenstein's love of language with his own lyrical poetry on the aptly named Revelation, a product of the introspection brought on by the lockdown. The 11 tracks, including a pair of orchestrated, cinematic set pieces, evoke the narrative skills of fellow countrymen Leonard Cohen and Gordon Lightfoot, the crystalline sound of The Eagles, anchored by the rich intimacy of Nick Drake. The completed work, organic, earthy and homemade, weaves themes of nature - water, astral constellations, mortality - into a meditation on living in an ever-changing present laced with existential doubt, the search for a higher power. Album Tracks 1. Rock and Roll 2. Southern Star 3. Peace of Mind 4. Surfer's Journal 5. Moondog 6. False-Hearted Lover 7. Elijah Rose 8. Mississippi 9. Till I See You Again 10. Sunset Boulevard Expedition 11. Angel Child