Album artwork for The Town That Cursed Your Name      by The Reds, Pinks and Purples
Album artwork for The Town That Cursed Your Name      by The Reds, Pinks and Purples

Whereas the 2022 collection Summer at Land’s End was a softer, gauzier world, The Town That Cursed Your Name is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. 'Leave It All Behind' starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. 'Here Comes the Lunar Hand' is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the album’s themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late '80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases – flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with colour – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.

The Reds, Pinks and Purples

The Town That Cursed Your Name

Tough Love
Album artwork for The Town That Cursed Your Name      by The Reds, Pinks and Purples
LP

£22.99

Pastel Green

Released 24/03/2023Catalogue Number

TLV160LP

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Album artwork for The Town That Cursed Your Name      by The Reds, Pinks and Purples
CD

£12.99

Released 24/03/2023Catalogue Number

TLV160CD

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The Reds, Pinks and Purples

The Town That Cursed Your Name

Tough Love
Album artwork for The Town That Cursed Your Name      by The Reds, Pinks and Purples
LP

£22.99

Pastel Green

Released 24/03/2023Catalogue Number

TLV160LP

Learn more
Album artwork for The Town That Cursed Your Name      by The Reds, Pinks and Purples
CD

£12.99

Released 24/03/2023Catalogue Number

TLV160CD

Learn more

Whereas the 2022 collection Summer at Land’s End was a softer, gauzier world, The Town That Cursed Your Name is heavier, with fuzzed lines running through. 'Leave It All Behind' starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges. 'Here Comes the Lunar Hand' is an impressionist geometry that seems to capture the album’s themes without telling you how. Lyrically, Donaldson embraces the earnestness of his heroes Paul Westerberg and Grant McLennan. Sonically, late '80s college rock is filtered through song-forward lo-fi acts like East River Pipe and House of Tomorrow-era Magnetic Fields. Like the images that accompany his releases – flowers and residential street scenes are pushed to the breaking point with colour – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.