Thief - Map Of Lost Keys - VINYL LP

A restless soul with a wide-open heart, Johnny Delaware was born in South Dakota, but he spent his 20s on the road, drifting between Nashville, Albuquerque, and Austin before landing in Charleston, SC, where he recorded his 2013 debut, Secret Wave. The album earned glowing reviews, with the Charleston City Paper declaring Delaware their Songwriter of the Year, but before he could record a follow-up, another local project he helped co-found, Susto, began taking off. Over the course of the next decade, the band would become one of the most critically acclaimed names in indie roots music, garnering raves from Rolling Stone and Spin and touring with the likes of The Lumineers, Band of Horses, and The Head and the Heart. In 2022, Delaware finally released his sophomore effort, Energy of Light, which he recorded after moving to Mexico City, and two years later, he followed it up with Para Llevar, which Glide Magazine hailed as Incha swirl of indie rock, Americana and psychedelic folk.Inch On his newest collection, On God's Time, Delaware returns to the sounds he grew up on in South Dakota, crafting a rich, cinematic meditation on mortality and meaning that's firmly rooted in the spiritual realm of the cosmic drifter. Produced by Delaware, the album reckons with death as a means of appreciating life, exploring love and loss and gratitude and regret through the eyes of a host of larger-than-life characters all navigating their way through a world of tragic beauty and infinite wonder.

Vinyl LP pressing. In the hallowed Destroyer discography, the early trinity of City Of Daughters, Thief and Streethawk A Seductionholds an important place; for not only does it document Dan Bejar's evolution from lo-fi bedroom tyro to bona fide master of the rock album, it also contains a massive percentage of superlative Destroyer Inchclassics.Inch 1998's City of Daughters features some of the first steps out of the demo-tapey experimentation of earlier recordings, with songs like InchComments On The World As WillInch refining the sound of that stripped-down earlier work, and the seminal InchNo Cease FiresInch offering us the first taste of just what a full-band Destroyer might conjure. 2000's Thief naturally went further down that road, and from the opening strums of InchThe TempleInch to the arty quirk of InchQueen of LanguagesInch to the gentle, jagged comedown of the title track, it soon became clear that Bejar was a master of a singular songcraft - and one that was only just getting started.

Remastered, repackaged with fully restored and expanded artwork, and available on colored vinyl for the first time ever, this is the definitive edition of Explosions in the Sky's seminal third album, one of the most iconic and influential instrumental albums ever made.