{"product_id":"widowspeak-jacket","title":"Widowspeak - Jacket { vinyl }","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten in the months before and after the release of their critically\r\nacclaimed fifth album Plum, The Jacket feels like a full-circle moment\r\nfor the duo of singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert\r\nEarl Thomas. Thematically, it considers Plum's broader questions\r\nabout the values ascribed to one's time and labor through the more\r\nrefined lens of performance and music-making. This is due in part to\r\nthe band's recent return to New York City, the site of their own origin\r\nstory, where they recorded The Jacket at the Diamond Mine with coproducer and noted Daptone Records affiliate Homer Steinweiss.\r\nReunions always breed reflection, and Hamilton admits that much\r\nof the album's themes are tied to formative experiences in the\r\nband's own early years. Some songs speak to the process of moving\r\non (\"Unwind\", \"Salt\"), while others muse about regret (\"True Blue\",\r\n\"Forget It\"). The album's namesake track considers the literal and\r\nfigurative costumes we dress our personalities in: imbued with\r\nmeaning and sense of time and place, becoming so representative\r\nof who we think we are before they're ultimately left behind. The\r\nsymbolic spaces of work, music, nightlife are seen through the haze of\r\nrecalling one's own unknown legends.\r\nSonically, The Jacket finds the band at their usual and best: dynamics\r\nshift seamlessly between gentle, drifting ballads and twangy jams,\r\nbuilt up from layered guitars, dusty percussion and ambling bass lines.\r\nElsewhere: whimsical flutes, choral textures, and basement organs.\r\nThomas's guitar playing is as lyrical and emotive as it's ever been, and\r\nHamilton's voice: comfortable and effortless. This seamless dynamic\r\nis amplified perfectly in the mix by Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs,\r\nBeach House). Widowspeak expertly pepper in slow-core, dream-pop,\r\npacific northwest indie, and outlaw country, resulting in a 60s-meets90s aesthetic. This sense of sonic nostalgia adds another layer to\r\nlyrics that reflect on old selves, invented and true.\r\nThe Jacket is a wizened meditation on performance and past lives\r\nfrom a band who've seen their fair share, hitting their stride now over\r\na decade in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57447524663627,"sku":"817949034719","price":3.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/6169\/9915\/files\/4139064-2891396.jpg?v=1779854272","url":"https:\/\/vinylvintage.shop\/products\/widowspeak-jacket","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}