The Reds, Pinks & Purples / The Town That Cursed Your Name 12" Green Vinyl

The Reds, Pinks & Purples / Uncommon Weather 12" Blue Vinyl

Cat #: TLV160
Barcode (if there is one): 5 055869 549615
FORMAT (including vinyl colour etc): 12" Green Vinyl
LABEL: Tough Love Records
RELEASE DATE: 2023

The 8th Album by the prolific Bay Area artist. 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 color – Donaldson’s songs are at the same time dazzling and lurid, beautiful and burdened, not unlike life as a musician around here.

TRACKLIST: 

Too Late For An Early Grave    
Leave It All Behind    
Life In The Void    
Here Comes The Lunar Hand    
Burning Sunflowers    
Waiting On A Ghost To Haunt You    
What Is A Friend?    
Mistakes (Too Many To Name)    
Almost Changed    
The Town That Cursed Your Name    
I Still Owe You Everything    
Break Up The Band