The Shins – Oh Inverted World (20th Anniversary Remaster) [New Vinyl LP] Artist: The Shins Title: Oh Inverted World (20th Anniversary Remaster) Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Rock UPC: 098787141511 Release Date: 2021 Record Label: Sub Pop Album Tracks1. Caring Is Creepy2. One By One All Day3. Weird Divide4. Know Your Onion!5. Girl Inform Me6. New Slang7. The Celibate Life8. Girl on the Wing9. Your Algebra10. Pressed in a Book11. The Past and Pending Deluxe vinyl LP pressing. Oh, Inverted World, the earth-shattering, indie-rock-redefining 2001 debut album by The Shins, is presented here in it’s finest form, dressed up all nice for it’s 20th birthday. The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer’s watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol‘ booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit „New Slang,“ as heard in the hit movie Garden State, we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album James Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. And the results sound stellar: great for new fans, and well worth the attention of those already on board!© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust [New Vinyl LP]
King Tuff – Smalltown Stardust [New Vinyl LP] Artist: King Tuff Title: Smalltown Stardust Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Rock UPC: 098787152517 Release Date: 2023 Record Label: Sub Pop Album Tracks1. Love Letters to Plants2. How I Love3. A Meditation4. Portrait of God5. Smalltown Stardust6. Pebbles in a Stream7. Tell Me8. Rock River9. The Bandits of Blue Sky10. Always Find Me11. The Wheel There are times in our life when we feel magic in the air. When new love arrives, or we find ourselves lost in a moment of creation with others who share our vision. A sense that: this is who I want to be. This is what I want to share. It’s a fleeting feeling and one that Kyle Thomas, the singer-songwriter who records and performs as King Tuff, found himself longing for in the spring of 2020. But knowing he couldn’t simply recreate this time in his life at will, Thomas-who hails from Brattleboro, Vermont-set out to write a love letter to those cherished moments of inspiration and to the small town that formed him. The one where he first nurtured his songwriting impulses, bouncing ideas off other like-minded artists. The kind of place where the changing of the seasons always delivered a sense of perspective and fresh artistic inspiration. Where he felt a deeper connection with nature and sense of community that had once been so close at hand. And so, Thomas seized upon his memories, creating what he calls „an album about love and nature and youth.“ The result is Smalltown Stardust, a spiritual, tender and ultimately joyous record that might come as a shock to those with only a passing knowledge of the artist’s back catalog. On Smalltown Stardust, Thomas takes us on his journey to a place where past and present collide, where he can be a dreamer in love with all that he sees. References to his Brattleboro upbringing abound, but at the core of Smalltown Stardust is Thomas’s desire to commune with nature on a spiritual level. Images of the natural world, from blizzards to green mountains to cloudy days, fill the songs. „I consider nature to be my religion,“ he explains, and Smalltown Stardust is nothing if not a spiritual exploration.Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Green River – Dry As A Bone [New Vinyl LP] Deluxe Ed
Green River – Dry As A Bone [New Vinyl LP] Deluxe Ed Artist: Green River Title: Dry As A Bone Format: Vinyl LP Genre: Rock UPC: 098787126112 Release Date: 2019 Record Label: Sub Pop Album TracksDISC 1:1. This Town2. PCC3. Ozzie4. One More Stitch (Bone Bonus)5. Unwind6. Baby Takes7. Searchin‘ (Bone Bonus)8. Hangin‘ Tree (Bone Bonus)9. Together We’ll Never10. Ain’t Nothin‘ to Do11. Bleeding Sheep12. BazaarDISC 2:1. Thrown Up2. This Little Boy3. 10000 Things (Deep Six)4. Your Own Best Friend (Deep Six) The story of Seattle’s rise to global rock supremacy in the late ’80s and early ’90s begins with Green River. Made up of Jeff Ament (bass), Mark Arm (guitar/vocals), Bruce Fairweather (guitar), Stone Gossard (guitar), and Alex Shumway (drums), the quintet put out three 12″s and a 7″ single during it’s brief existence. Green River’s influence on Seattle’s music scene spread far and wide thanks to the members‘ dispersion into bands including Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, and Love Battery, as well as the punk-glam-sludge-rock songs they left behind. „By ’83, ’84, there was definitely a movement that was happening within hardcore, like Black Flag slowing down for My War,“ says Arm. „The Replacements and Butthole Surfers were rearing their heads, and they’re very different bands, but they’re not hardcore-the Replacements are pretty much straight-up rock, and Butthole Surfers were God knows what. Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising was around, and a lot of really interesting post-hardcore things were happening.“ Green River, which formed in 1984, was part of that evolution, with a sound that straddled a lot of different genres-blues, punk, bloozy straight-ahead rock. The mini-LP Dry As A Bone, which came out in 1987, and the band’s lone full-length Rehab Doll, which came out in 1988, were released as a single CD with a few bonus cuts, including their sneering cover of David Bowie’s „Queen Bitch“ and their marauding version of Dead Boys‘ „Ain’t Nothin‘ to Do,“ in 1990-but they’ve been unavailable on vinyl for years. Now, these slices of Seattle music history are not only back in print, they’re accompanied by items from the vaults that had been forgotten about for decades. Dry As A Bone was recorded at Jack Endino’s Reciprocal Recording in 1986, and it shows the band in furious form, with Arm’s yowl battling Fairweather and Gossard’s ferocious guitar playing on „This Town“ and „Unwind“ opening as a slow bluesy grind then jump-starting itself into a hyperactive chase. The deluxe edition includes Green River’s cuts from the crucial Seattle-scene compilation Deep Six, as well as long-lost songs that were recorded to the now-archaic format Betamax. Rehab Doll, recorded largely at Seattle’s Steve Lawson Studios., bridges the gap between the taut, punky energy of Dry As a Bone and the bigger drums and thicker riffs that were coming to dominate rock in the late ’80s. This new edition of Rehab Doll includes a version of „Swallow My Pride“ recorded to 8-track at Endino’s Reciprocal Recording, which features a more accurate depiction of how the band sounded when they played live. „When I listen to these mixes, I think, ‚This is how we actually sounded-this is the kind of energy we had,'“ says Shumway. Green River’s place in American music history is without question, but these recordings paint a more complete picture of the band-and of rock in the mid- to late-’80s, when punk’s faster-and-louder ideals had begun shape-shifting into other ideas.© DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.