Straw Man Army -Earthworks - LP Grooves.land/Playthek

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1. CLARION CALL
2. LOOK ALIVE
3. SECOND NATURE
4. SPIRAL
5. ROPE BURN
6. EXTINCTION BURST
7. STARING AT THE SUN
8. MASS PRODUCTION OF LONELINESS
9. BE GONE
10. TURN THE WHEEL
11. EARTHWORKS
12. DOWNSTREAM

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NYC duo Straw Man Army return with their third LP, â??Earthworksâ?, to complete a trilogy of records begun with 2020â??s â??Age of Exile,â? and 2022â??s â??SOSâ?. Whereas â??Age of Exileâ? dealt with the haunted landscapes of colonial history in the Americas, and â??SOSâ? gave voice to a crisis of the present moment, like a prayer in bewildering times, 2024â??s â??Earthworksâ? signals the bandâ??s attempt to close this trilogy by turning their gaze towards the future, where paradox, complexity and contradiction spiral in ascendance to an agonizing pitch. While continuing to develop their own style of anarcho-punk, â??Earthworksâ? finds the band pulling once again from jazz and ambient influences, expanded Krautrock rhythms, and post-rock experiments, with a stronger emphasis on melodic vocals and varied song structures than on previous offerings. Taking cues from the wistful anti-war harmonies of The Byrds and the angry melodies of Zounds, tracks like â??Turn the Wheelâ? and â??Second Natureâ? mark new territory for a group whose messages and methods of experimentation have merged to form a singular sound equally at home on All the Madmen Records or in the spiritual legacy of ESP Disk. â??Earthworksâ? is an album that holds and subverts many contradictionsâ??juggling the weight of melancholy, grief, guilt, impunity, and the yearning for clarity against the backdrop of boiling wrath; the wrath of nature, the occupied, the dispossessed, and of the mind against itself. To quote the track â??Spiralâ? â?? â??Is this all thatâ??s left for us these days? / Apathy and rage?â?â?? Straw Man Army offers this record as a companion to our frustration, our sickness, our despair, and a lifeline for our fugitive attention in the struggle for peace. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with a double-sided A2 poster - POSTER(S)

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MUS306

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