Waterbaby - 22 Halo - VINYL LP

Limited orange colored vinyl LP pressing.

Loser Edition on cosmic berry vinyl. Rising Stockholm, Sweden-based singer-songwriter waterbaby romanticizes everything. You can hear it in the rising star's music, which is nostalgic, tender, and as fluid as her stage name implies. Waterbaby was surrounded by music as a child, from her great-grandad, a jazz pianist, to her uncle, who worked in clubs, to her own brother, who performs under the name tt. She eventually found her own way and sound, releasing her debut EP Foam with Sub Pop in 2023. Produced by her main collaborator Marcus White (YG, Anna of the North), the fizzy, confessional, guitar-driven project featured the singles Inch911,Inch InchAirforce blue,Inch and InchWishing well.InchFollowing the 2025 releases of singles InchAmissInch and award-winning Hannes collaboration InchWish,Inch waterbaby is preparing for the highly anticipated of her full-length debut, Memory Be a Blade. Darker and more rich than her EP, waterbaby's new music comes from a place of subconscious heartbreak, reflecting on a past break-up as she was about to experience a new one. White brought in a stellar team of musicians to add depth and wholeness to the sound, reflecting waterbaby's classical music background. InchIt basically took shape before our eyes,Inch she says of the seamless process of bringing these emotional new songs to life. This time, the lyrics were more improvised, allowing waterbaby more freedom to express what she needed to say. InchI took the mic not knowing what I'm about to do,Inch she says, Inchand that's become the most honest outlet in my life.Inch

Rock and metal music have always been a haven for those who have bigger stories to tell; who have grander emotions to convey. For more than thirty years, Finnish figureheads Amorphis have done their best to carve their very own niche in heartfelt yet aggressive, melancholic yet soothing tunes. On HaloInch, their staggering fourteenth studio effort, the Fins underline their trailblazing status as one of the most original, culturally relevant and rewarding acts ever to emerge from the land of the thousand lakes. In the past, mythology and legend took the role of today's pop culture Stories and a set of values uniting us by giving us a voice and a tapestry on which we can find each other and identify with something. By weaving the tales of Finnish national epos InchKalevalaInch into their songs and interpreting them in a timeless way, Amorphis combine the role of ancient minstrels and luminaries of the modern world, honouring tradition without getting stuck in the past. The vibrant, lively, and touching beauty that is InchHaloInch highlights their musical and storytelling mastership on a once again soaring level It's a progressive, melodic, and quintessentially melancholic heavy metal masterwork plucked from the fickle void of inspiration by original guitarists Esa Holopainen and Tomi Koivusaari, bassist Olli-Pekka Laine, drummer Jan Rechberger, longtime keyboardist Santeri Kallio and vocalist Tomi Joutsen, the band's long-standing lyrical consciousness Pekka Kainulainen and a selected group of world class audio professionals led by renowned Swedish producer Jens Bogren. Considering the band's prolonged journey in the forefront of innovative metal music, it's difficult to grasp how Amorphis manages to raise the proverbial bar time and time again, presenting a more than worthy finale to the trilogy begun with 2015's InchUnder the Red CloudInch followed by 2018's InchQue