Fate & Alcohol

Fate & AlcoholAfter seven years, Japandroids have returned with Fate and Alcohol, their fourth and final full length. Written in part while the Vancouver duoguitarist vocalist Brian King and drummer vocalist David Prowsewere touring behind their 2017 ANTI debut, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, the album is at once a return to form and a thrilling step forward, testament to the sort of chemistry that theyve honed over the course of 18 years and hundreds of shows

The album was recorded as a side project to Kim Deal's group the Breeders

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Made up of recordings made in 2013 that also produced the 2015 release The Waterfall

O’Flynn and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

A brave statement in the political climate of Sudan of the last decades

This 60th Anniversary deluxe edition also includes liner notes by award-winning writer Ben Ratliff

contemporaries in comparison to the works of artists such as Os Mutantes

would record Hubbard's Keep Your Soul Together for CTI later that year (his last album for the label) but for the time being

I don’t feel that I fully embody any particular genre—all of the music just comes from the universe that is my ever-shifting brain/heart/world

The second part of Matador’s reissues of the essential early records by Texas’s Butthole Surfers continues with three of their most insane slabs -- 1985’s ‘Cream Corn from the Socket of Davis

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Light stress accumulation along corners of an otherwise decent sleeve