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Common Era Vinyl LP

Kranky / SKU: lp-15309
much-needed repress of 2011 lo-fi shoegaze gem, Lab pick!
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  • "It's been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return. Common Era shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorloss Record EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era. The new material has such common pop elements as 'songs', vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current 'scene'. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe. They are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act." - Kranky

    • 1st vinyl reissue of sophomore album from modern shoegaze duo
    • black vinyl pressing
    • original release year: 2011
    • music label: Kranky 2024
    upc: 796441815517

"It's been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return. Common Era shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorloss Record EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era. The new material has such common pop elements as 'songs', vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current 'scene'. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe. They are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act." - Kranky

  • 1st vinyl reissue of sophomore album from modern shoegaze duo
  • black vinyl pressing
  • original release year: 2011
  • music label: Kranky 2024
upc: 796441815517

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