Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Anniversary Edition) (Vinyl Crimson Splat LP)

Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (Anniversary Edition) (Vinyl Crimson Splat LP)Dear Reader, About a year or two ago, Naomi Yang (of Galaxie 500) reached out to me after she rediscovered a video that we had made together in 2011, during the making of Tramp, just before the albums release. It was for the song Serpents. The timing was uncanny, approaching the anniversary of Tramp. Thinking about my time in New York while in the bubble of Los Angeles and my home. Thinking about how restless I was, and now settled down and stable.

And just as Detroit techno and Chicago house fused with Jamaican dancehall to splinter rave into a spectrum of microgenres in the 1980s and '90s

and then emerge in the evenings as the sun was getting low: - around 5:30 in the winter

for myself and for others

were always centered around the creativity of frontman and songwriter Alec Ounsworth

Animal Collective - Ballet Slippers (Vinyl LP)

It was a heady

The album had near immediate success

For the first time ever

and this is the new momentary present

“I did the Appleseed hand style while working at Tepper Galleries in NYC

• Reissued for the first time since 1977 with inner sleeves containing archival photographs and new liner notes by Francis Gooding

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