Name: Life / Thrills
Brand: Lower Plenty

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MEX1972

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2014-09-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0184923119725

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MEX1971

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Black

2014-09-29

0184923119718

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Lower Plenty

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Mexican Summer

<p>Mexican Summer is an independent record label based out of Brooklyn, NY. They release the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form. Mexican Summer operates in tandem with Anthology, a book publisher and archival record label. Anthology focuses on responsibly licensed material, compelling design, and definitive presentation.</p>

Acting as a respite from the celebrated strains of modern Australian underground music, Lower Plenty manage a deconstruction of folk music like none other: unsettled, unforgiving, unconcerned with what came before or what's to follow. Acoustic guitars shuffle in and out of phase with one another, double-tracked vocals hover above in careful meter, brushed snare rattles the very frame of their sound, and then everything shifts again, and again. Comfort's not long here, though beauty is maintained; melodies start sweet but turn inward, wane nostalgic and wax without resolve. 'Life / Thrills' is the Melbourne group's third full-length, and their collective experience will leave you thoroughly unprepared for the beautiful confusion suggested by these ten songs, which seem to have the power of slowing and even stopping time. Suitable comparisons to this music are as disparate as early Cat Power, Arab Strap, the Shrimper roster ca. 1992, the Sun City Girls, and the late '60s / early '70s output of the Red Crayola, but as with much truly original music, Lower Plenty resists direct comparison and defies expectation. Their shambling, discordant presence will relieve you of any preconceptions - this is one best experienced alone, as the sun fades into the horizon for the night.LP - Numbered edition of 1000 Copies on high quality virgin vinyl with Download.

Life / Thrills

Music GB