Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (Black Vinyl)

Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (Black Vinyl)Penny Sparkle the bands third album for 4AD marks another sonic twist in their already adventurous canon. It was made over the last year with the band journeying between New York and Stockholm to work with production duo Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid (Fever Ray, Massive Attack) and as with their previous album, 23, Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) was enlisted to mix it.

the beautiful and the banal and the terrible are all laid out before us

and the moment before he began making new legends as Magnolia Electric Co

15 step's children's voices and odd-meter clapping is astoundingly uplifting

Across six minutes

Melt the Honey

Joey Santiago's insistent

and he commands each delirious moment with absolute mastery

We’ll avoid in-depth breakdowns of lyrical content here

Its 11 songs tackle self-destructiveness and healing with jolting lucidity

The band’s debut is a collection of songs that marry the loose but incisive jangle of early Pavement with the barbed sweetness of Sebadoh and the wide-eyed wonder of the first Shins LP

Flower of Devotion was recorded in April and August of 2019 in Chicago

Girls Can Tell is one of those life-affirming pop albums you know you'll return to in years to come