Name: Let’s Start Degeneracy
Brand: Microwave

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Default:19

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Rough Trade UK

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Electric Blue with Grimace Pinwheel with heavy White Splatter

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Limited edition

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Blue

Format Music EU

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2024-04-26

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Catalogue number

PNE4085

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810540036434

Blue LP | Rough Trade Exclusive

The Orchard/SPV (Membran)

Clear with Baby Pink and Purple Splatter

Clear

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

PNE4081

0810540036397

Clear LP

Extended format: No

PNE4082

0810540036403

Artist

Microwave

Label EU

Pure Noise

Genre EU

Alternative / Modern

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The fourth full-length record from Atlanta’s Microwave is a trip. It all begins with the misty synth strikes and cosmic transmission warbles of “Portals,” before hazy, dripping-wet guitar chords settle in. The song, an adaptation of the traditional Christian hymn “Softly and Tenderly,” is true to its new name, as liminal and fleeting as it is gripping and emotional. It’s an enormous, gentle, enveloping introduction to what will be explored: life and death, happiness and freedom, the real and unreal. This is Let’s Start Degeneracy, the long-awaited new album from Microwave, released via Pure Noise.

It's an emo record, but perhaps only categorically speaking. It contains multitudes: ambient, pop, R/B, punk, and experimental sounds float in and out of one another as the record moves through scenes, experiences, and feelings, all of them rippling with a purity of intention and translation that mark the best artistic works of “psychedelia.” Vocalist/guitarist/producer Nathan Hardy, bassist Tyler Hill, and drummer Timothy Pittard have created something that resembles a concept record, but it’s the sort of concept that’s impossible to contain in just one phrase or word or sound.

The record’s title, taken from a conservative politician’s take on drugs in 1970, captures this liberated spirit. There are no rules, and there is nothing to be ashamed of. “It’s about letting go of attachments and behaviors that aren’t serving you, and trying to shake off your programming and not be motivated by fear and guilt and shame,” says Hardy.

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