Name: Closure
Brand: The Vacant Lots

Bonus disc

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Catalogue number

FC180V12EX

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Colour

Clear

Colour details

Black and Clear Quad Effect

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-30

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

RTUK

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060467889667

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

LP-FUZZ-180C

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White Vinyl

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2022-11-04

Redeye

5060467889643

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

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5060467889681

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Artist

The Vacant Lots

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Fuzz Club Records

The Vacant Lots are an American electro post-punk duo comprised of Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen. Their minimalist, primitive rock and roll songs are characterized by boundless energy, tearing up the psych template with a genuine punk spirit. Collaborating with underground music legends such as Sonic Boom, Alan Vega of Suicide, and Anton Newcombe, The Vacant Lots have carved their own unique sound in the industry.

Influenced by artists like Alan Vega, The KVB, Factory Floor, Sextile, Suicide, Lydia Lunch, Fat White Family, Ike Yard, and Sonic Jesus; The Vacant Lots' music is a blend of raw power and infectious melodies that captivate listeners.

With their debut album Departure mixed by Sonic Boom and featuring vocals from Alan Vega on their second album [m=1168472], The Vacant Lots have proven themselves to be pioneers in the genre. They have also released a split 10" with Alan Vega and produced two EPs at Anton Newcombe's Cobra Studio in Berlin.

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Created under isolation, Closure is the fourth album from Brooklyn duo The Vacant Lots and is Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen’s most fully realised work to date. On Fuzz Club Records, the record packs 8 minimal is maximal salvos into 23 minutes that coalesce into a stun-blast soundtrack for today’s shattered society. New York City’s artistic skyline may have changed immeasurably since the last century, yet the minimalist post-punk/synth-pop duo vividly gouge into the city’s immortal outsider spirit and underground cultural tropes, set against a pulsating backdrop of modern apocalypse.

Laced with evocatively concise and lacerating lyrics delivered detached and deadpan, ‘Closure’s spine-chilling onslaught of towering guitar shrapnel, ethereal metallic synth melodies and cold electronic turbulence comes infused with shades of New Order and Jesus And Mary Chain; the kind of modern disco and post-punk grooves that pillaged New York clubs in the 80s. Inevitably, the penetrating spirit of New York electronic trailblazers Suicide haunts the new record with its subterranean gravitational pull, having previously manifested physically when the two-piece befriended the late Alan Vega – leading to collaborations, support spots and Artaud now co-curating the ‘Vega Vault’ of unreleased material and co-producing and mixing the 2021 lost Mutator LP.

Closure

Music US

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