Name: Monarch Season
Brand: Jennifer Castle

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

POB057LPDLX

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

140 Gram Vinyl with Full Colour Inner plus Songbook.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2020-11-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0843563125991

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

POB057CD

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0843563126011

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

Artist

Jennifer Castle

Genre GB

Folk

Label GB

Paradise of Bachelors

Jennifer Castle is a singer/songwriter hailing from Toronto. With her unique blend of folk and indie rock, she has captivated audiences worldwide. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Daniel Romano, Andre Ethier, and Jenn Grant, Jennifer's music resonates with listeners on a deep level.
Known for her soulful vocals and introspective lyrics, Jennifer Castle creates music that is both hauntingly beautiful and deeply personal. Her songs have been described as ethereal and mesmerizing, transporting listeners to another world.
With a discography that includes albums like "Angels of Death" and "Pink City," Jennifer Castle continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be an artist in the modern music industry. Whether performing solo or collaborating with other talented musicians, *Jennifer Castle* never fails to deliver a captivating performance that leaves audiences wanting more.

Paradise of Bachelors is a record label, company, and archive based in North Carolina. With a passion for preserving and promoting *authentic* music, the label has become a trusted source for music enthusiasts worldwide.

Founded with the aim of supporting independent artists and showcasing their talent, Paradise of Bachelors has built a reputation for releasing high-quality records across various genres. From folk to country, blues to rock, the label's diverse roster ensures there is something for every music lover.

With an unwavering commitment to exceptional sound quality and artistic integrity, Paradise of Bachelors consistently delivers unique listening experiences. By collaborating closely with its artists throughout the creative process, the label fosters an environment that allows musicians to fully express themselves.

Jennifer Castle’s sixth full-length record, the moon-suffused Monarch Season an album as delicate and diaphanous as its namesake butterfly stands, in a literal sense, as her first proper “solo” album, performed alone in her coastal kitchen, windows open to the insects and the wind and the reflection of the moon on Lake Erie, entirely without human accompaniment (though a chorus of crickets provides rich interstitial support throughout.)

Monarch Season is an album as delicate and diaphanous as its namesake creature. Although created half a year pre-pandemic, Castle deliberately pursued a minimalist, homebound, and solitary process that represented, for her musical practice, a radical reduction of scale, coupled with a telescopic expansion of scope.

The follow-up to her acclaimed 2018 record Angels of Death, Monarch Season is Castle’s private experiment on the effects of microgravity in this context, increased immediacy, intimacy, domesticity, simplicity, brevity, and directness on her music. As a distillation of the formal, compositional, and collaborative qualities of her previous work to the elemental the singular body, the shared Earth, the charged silence of nature at night Monarch Season transports the listener, from the first strains of the heavy-lidded guitar instrumental Theory Rest, to that lakeside kitchen at dusk, beneath a bright moon twinned in the water.

She recorded quickly, with only her longtime co-producer Jeff McMurrich to capture her guitar, piano, and for the first time on record harmonica. Jennifer dedicates her blowing to friend and mentor Kath Bloom, who played the Pink City harp. Her airy, lambent voice renders these taut poems as elegant inscriptions within circumscription, fully present and presciently articulate, months before the age of coronavirus quarantines, about the troubles and delights to be found in aloneness, in the patient observation of our immediate surroundings, and if you’re lucky in negotiating abiding love.

Monarch Season

Music GB