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CD-SLANG-50116

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-06-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4250506820190

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

LP-SLANG-50116

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4250506820206

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Artist

Noga Erez

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

City Slang

AOTM 2017

City Slang has been a European outpost for American indie for almost 30 years. A home from home where innovative and pioneering artists have made their name in Europe and America. The records released through City Slang have helped shape and embellish the last three decades of alternative music. What better reason do we need to have them as our first Label Focus of 2019.

Christof Ellinghaus started City Slang in Berlin 1990, after Wayne Coyne asked him for a European label to put out A Priest Driven Ambulance. Ellinghaus' response? All the labels around him "were shit" and founded City Slang exclusively to release The Flaming Lips album. By 1991 City Slang had released the indie-folk classic Fakebookby Yo La Tengo, Favorite Spanish Dishes EP by Lemonheads and the debut album from Hole, Pretty on the Inside.

The following decade saw City Slang release albums by alternative heroes, Tortoise, Built To Spill, Sebadoh, Unsane and Guided By Voices but arguably the two bands that have helped define the label the most, releasing their best music under City Slang were Calexico and Lambchop.

Since their burgeoning period in the 90s, City Slang have continued to find and import the best indie music from America, having released records from the likes of Caribou, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, White Denim, Jessica Pratt, Sinkane and Nada Surf.

To celebrate the hard work and amazing output of City Slang, we have a Rough Trade Exclusive red vinyl version of Lambchop's opus, Nixon and a Rough Trade Exclusive repress of Caribou's Melody Day with the Four Tet remix.

City Slang Label Focus

Israeli musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Born December 26, 1989. She makes music in collaboration with her partner and co-writer, composer and producer [a=Ori Rousso].

Every so often an artist emerges who completely changes the game. Ladies and gentleman, meet renegade experimentalist Noga Erez, a pop artist in the purest sense. Born and living just outside Tel Aviv, Erez's freewheeling songs are energised by the politics that surround her, but are also anchored in a desire to make as many people as possible feel. This is politically charged pop exploded out onto a universal stage. Inspired by strong artistic figures such as Björk and MIA, as well as everyone from Frank Ocean to Radiohead to Kendrick Lamar to FKA Twigs, Erez is the definitive sound of the world we live in today. For Erez, music is at its best when it allows for both presence and absence. "I have this idea of giving people moments of thought and inspiration, and at the same time giving moments of escapism and fun." That is, after all, what all pop music should do, and what Noga Erez is here to fearlessly master.

Rough Trade exclusive bonus mix cd.

Off The Radar

Music US

Buy Noga Erez - Off The Radar (Vinyl, CD) now from Rough Trade - independent purveyors of great music, since 1976.