Name: Bedouine
Brand: Bedouine

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GLS022602

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-06-23

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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040232591952

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

Artist

Bedouine

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Spacebomb

Each year we pick our top 100 Albums Of The Year. The list is a reflection of an album’s experience within the world of Rough Trade - it’s informed by what our customers talk to us about, what’s been in most demand across our shops, and what we’ve been playing instore throughout the year - with the ultimate aim of championing the future as well as celebrating the present.

1. Aldous Harding - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/party-b38386ac-fbff-4804-8ec5-46b4f0b578b3">Party</a>

Echoing the likes of Joanna Newsom, Kate Bush and Jesca Hoop, Aldous Harding’s album title should be taken with a sizeable grain of salt. Instead of energetic pop anthems, understated vocals make you quieten down and nestle into your speakers to catch every word. The lasting spell of this album will leave you enraptured, keep your ear to the ground for Aldous Harding.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/live-at-kexp">Live At KEXP (Limited to 500 copies)</a>

2. Ryan Adams - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/prisoner-56999bfb-f883-4a49-90ab-63a1e45d4d24">Prisoner</a>

Instantly catchy choruses and booming guitar chords welcome us back to the first original songs by Ryan Adams since his 2014 self-titled album. Cementing his status as a heartbreak documentarian, Adams shows off his full emotional range, and we’re all the better off for it.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/live-at-rough-trade-551f7e1f-34a2-4946-946c-f29178c22823">Live At Rough Trade East (Pre-order)</a>

3. Björk - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/utopia-e9522383-2751-482b-b84b-51f671cf0f77">Utopia</a>

Arriving from the emotional journey of 2015’s Vulnicura, her highly anticipated new album finds a recovered and reinvigorated Björk, echoing all the fight and defiance of her previous works. A favourite in the Rough Trade office and currently in heavy rotation, we’re sure that it will land highly on most top 100 lists.

Worldwide Exclusive - <a href="http://roughtrade.com/us/music/utopia-e9522383-2751-482b-b84b-51f671cf0f77">Colored Vinyl Edition</a>

4. Big Thief - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/capacity">Capacity</a>

A favourite amongst the Rough Trade team, Big Thief return with their second album on Saddle Creek Records. Flying under the radar, the success of the coloured vinyl edition took everyone by surprise. It’s not hard to see why with breathtakingly intimate vocals from singer Adrianne Lenker, tight melodies and intricate guitar work, an infinitely replayable album.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/capacity">Bonus 7" with Colored Vinyl Edition</a>

5. Colter Wall - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/colter-wall">Colter Wall​</a>

In demand by some of the world’s finest record labels, Colter Wall’s eponymous debut album proves why. As authentic as an artist 40 years his senior, his rumbling baritone and storytelling lyrics are reminiscent of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. If this is the genesis, we can’t wait for the evolution.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/imaginary-appalachia">Vinyl release of Imaginary Appalachia</a>

6. Cigarettes After Sex - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/cigarettes-after-sex">Cigarettes After Sex</a>

A debut album to remember from the El Paso dreampop quartet, delivering on the promise of their much lauded 2012 I. EP. Sleepy, lovely androgynous vocals accompany floating synths and heavenly keyboard work to bring you a step closer to utopia.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/cigarettes-after-sex">Bonus Signed Art Print (Limited to 300 Copies)</a>

7. The Big Moon - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/love-in-the-4th-dimension">Love In The 4th Dimension</a>

As far as long-awaited debut albums go, The Big Moon landed it like falling off a log while taking candy from a baby with their eyes shut. Produced by Catherine J Marks and boasting dulcet, burnt-sugar tones, bouncy bass and fuzzy-wuzzy lilting guitar, The Big Moon beckon you in and invite you to a party kicking off on your record player.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/acoustic-ep">Acoustic EP (Limited to 500 copies)</a>

8. Jane Weaver - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/modern-kosmology">Modern Kosmology</a>

Eight albums in and Jane Weaver continues to carve her own path on Modern Kosmology. Only describable as a unique blend of cosmic krautrock, acid-singed, space throbbing psych and gorgeous folk vocals, the album is a fitting follow up to another Rough Trade favourite, 2015’s The Amber Light.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/modern-kosmology">Bonus Live EP CD</a>

9. Thundercat - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/drunk-1923c854-b7cf-4aeb-ae57-6fd6a9617167">Drunk</a>

Thundercat grooved his way into our hearts with the follow-up to 2013’s Apocalypse. Drunk is the funkiest of the funky, the jazziest of the jazzy and the smoothest of the smooth. Glitchy hip-hop beats smothered in classy honey-tones, lavish keyboards and plenty of glossy soul.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/drunk-1923c854-b7cf-4aeb-ae57-6fd6a9617167">Drank Bonus Remix CD</a>

10. Here Lies Man - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/here-lies-man">Here Lies Man</a>

Afrobeat with a dose of punk thrown in, super fuzzed-up bass and guitar will vibrate the cerebral cortex and ensure that you don’t forget Here Lies Man any time soon. A brilliant, hazy, psychedelic, hook-laden 8-song groovy-as-fuck masterwork.

Rough Trade Exclusive - <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/rough-trade-animal-noises">4-track 12” (inc Fela Kuti cover &amp; new music)</a>

11. Childhood - Universal High

13. Holly Macve - Golden Eagle

14. The National - Sleep Well Beast

16. Daniele Luppi &amp; Parquet Courts - MILANO

Also check out: <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/albums-of-the-year">Rough Trade Top 100 </a>

Albums Of The Year 2017 - Top 20

AOTM 2017

Bedouine is a Los Angeles based folk musician, originally from Aleppo, Syria. Her soulful and introspective music has captivated audiences around the world. Drawing inspiration from her multicultural background, Bedouine's songs are a blend of poetic storytelling and melodic beauty.
With influences ranging from Hand Habits to Big Thief, Bedouine's sound is both unique and familiar. Her delicate vocals and intricate guitar work create an enchanting atmosphere that transports listeners to another time and place.
Whether performing solo or collaborating with other talented artists, Bedouine's artistry shines through in every note. Her music is a testament to the power of storytelling and the universal language of emotion.

Latest from Matthew E White's Spacebomb studio and it is another cracker. Bedouine is singing, like rain down a granite ruin, sweet as jasmine in the summer darkness, lilting crystal movements, precise and sure, the kind of voice that forms civilizations. Bedouine has a story to match the name, Azniv Korkejian, born in Syria to Armenian parents, spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, and moved to America when her family won the Green Card lottery. Living at various times in Boston, Houston, Lexington, Austin, and Savannah, she found a community of musicians in Los Angeles that feels like home. One day she walked into Gus Seyffert's studio to inquire about getting a reel-to-reel tape machine, something analogue and portable to record herself in small, quiet places. On a whim, he asked if she would play a song right then, so she stepped into the room and cut Solitary Daughter in a first take, and they were off on a three year collaboration. One night, she approached Matthew E. White of Spacebomb Records after a show at The Echo in L.A., saying that she wanted to send him a song. He remembers listening to One of These Days on the rest of that tour "like a thousand times," it knocked him and his band right out, and they even set it as their alarm to wake up to in the morning. If that all sounds a bit mythic, a bit rock-and-roll legend, remember that reality always outdoes the script, even in a town like Hollywood. Working on around thirty tracks, with remarkable musicians like Smokey Hormel stopping by to contribute parts, Korkejian selected ten, united by a sustained mood and presence, to bring east for the Spacebomb treatment and Trey Pollard's expressive symphonic arrangements. It's a celebration of the patient process of recording and discovery. Bedouine's voice is at the center, a serene narrator, restless or still, taking deep pleasure in moments of trust and recognition, close observations or oblique truths, exploring the deep complications of displacement. Her debut collects two coasts, combining L.A. studio magic and Richmond's Spacebomb sound in a rich new world of style and song