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WASHED OUT PURPLE NOON CD / LP / CS SP 1365 RELEASE DATE: AUG 7TH, 2020 TRACKLISTING: 1. Too Late 2. Face Up 3. Time to Walk Away 4. Paralyzed 5. Reckless Desires 6. Game of Chance 7. Leave You Behind 8. Don't Go 9. Hide 10. Haunt GENRE: Alternative Rock Washed Out is Atlanta-based producer/songwriter/multi-instru- mentalist Ernest Greene. Over three enchanting, critically-lauded albums and an EP, his music has proved both transportive and visual, each release inviting listeners into immersive, self-contained LP Packaging: Single-pocket universes. With Purple Noon, his fourth album, and his return to Sub CD Packaging: Digipack jacket with custom dust sleeve Includes mp3 coupon Pop, he delivers the most accessible Washed Out creation to date. NONRETURNABLE Life of Leisure, Washed Out’s 2009 debut EP, set the bar for the Chillwave era, shimmering in a warm haze of o-the-cu Polaroids and pre-IG lters. Within and Without, his 2011 full-length debut on Sub Pop, morphed into nocturnal, icy synth-pop and embraced provocative imagery. 2013’s Paracosm was Greene’s take on psychedelia, with a full live band and kaleidoscopic light show, and saw him playing to the largest audiences of his career. The CS Packaging: Three-panel LOSER LP Packaging: Single- sample-heavy Mister Mellow (2017, Stone’s Throw) delivered a 360 J-card in clear case. pocket jacket with custom audio/visual experience, with cut-n-paste and hand-drawn NONRETURNABLE dust sleeve Includes mp3 coupon (White Vinyl) animation to match the hip-hop inuences throughout the album. NONRETURNABLE With each release, Greene has approached his evolving project with meticulous detail and a steadfast vision. RETAIL: Cumulative sales of over 350k, 571k incl. Streaming Within and Without (2011) and Paracosm (2013) still sell steadily For Purple Noon, Greene again wrote, recorded, and produced the Posters and play copies will be available entirety of the album, with mixing handled by frequent collaborator PUBLICITY: Album serviced to all music & lifestyle media. Ben H. Allen (Paracosm, Within and Without). Production of the album followed a brief stint of writing for other artists (most notably ONLINE: Artist page (incl. album art and a focus track): Sudan Archives) which enabled Greene to explore genres like R&B https://www.subpop.com/artists/washed_out and modern pop. These brighter, more robust sounds made their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realwashedout Twitter: https://twitter.com/realwashedout Purple Noon way into the songs of and mark a new chapter for Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washed.out Greene as a producer and songwriter. The vocals are front and Website: https://washedout.net/ center, tempos are slower, beats bolder, and there’s a more compre- Spotify: 1.4 million monthly listeners, 374k followers hensive depth of dynamics. One can hear the luxuriousness of Sade, Advertising will be purchased on select sites. the sonic bombast of Phil Collins, and the lush atmosphere of the great Balearic beat classics. RADIO: Purple Noon will be worked to commercial and non-commercial/college radio. TOURING: Washed Out plans to tour as soon as everyone can go to shows again Mediterranean coastlines inspired Purple Noon, and Greene pays tribute to the region’s distinct island culture - all rugged elegance ALSO AVAILABLE: and old-world charm - and uses it as a backdrop to tell stories of passion, love, and loss (Purple Noon’s title comes from the 1960 lm directed by Rene Clement and based on the novel The Talented Mister Ripley by Patricia Highsmith). Much like romantic Hollywood epics, the melodrama throughout is strong: a serendipitous rst meeting in “Too Late”; a passionate love aair in “Paralyzed”; disintegration of a relationship in “Time to Walk Away”; a reunion with a lost love in “Game of Chance.” Purple Noon adds a layer of SP1055 SP945 Paracosm Within and Without emotional intensity to the escapism of Washed Out’s oeuvre, taking LP/CD LP/CD the music to dazzling new heights. *CS available 7/10/20 *CS available 7/10/20 JON BENJAMIN LP SP1151 REPRESS RELEASE DATE: 07/03/2020 Tracklisting: 1. I Can’t Play Piano, Pt. 1 2. I Can’t Play Piano, Pt. 2 3. It Had to Be You 4. I Can’t Play Piano, Pt. 3 5. I Can’t Play Piano, Pt. 4 (Trill Baby Trill) 6. Amy’s Song (The Bum Steer) *Secret Bonus Track We all start from the same place and build from there, Genre: Comedy/Jazz gathering references, structures, techniques, modes, nuances, etc. and, as artists, we strive to build some- thing purposeful. Well, I Should Have…* is the culmi- nation of hours (almost 3) of conception with the goal to bring something, in the tradition of the great vanguard jazz artists like Miles Davis, Roach, Mingus, LP Packaging: Single LP sleeve Note: includes mp3 coupon Monk, et al, close to pure spontaneity. Jazz is the NON-RETURNABLE ocean…I am just one wave forming one curl, crashing once onto some remote beach somewhere in time. And that wave makes a small imperceptible change in the slope of the sand, upon which at some point in time a Publicity: Album will be promoted with a “documen- baby turtle will walk across, leaving his trail for just an tary” video serviced to comedy, music, and lifestyle instant, before the tide washes it clean. That’s a pretty media. cool analogy. More to the point, I do not play piano and I made this jazz album. Some tell me, “Hey, Jon, tone Online: Artist page incl. art and a focus track): it down.” Some even say, “Really, Jon?” A few have https://www.subpop.com/artists/jon_benjamin said, “Get the fuck away from me or I’ll fucking punch Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/HJBenjamin you in the face.” I know the risks in making this album. I know what it is like to do something that no one else would think to do. Most would call this reckless. I call it jazz. What you are about to experi- ence is an aural auto da fe. I am the jazz daredevil. – Jon, New York City, July 2015 Well, I Should Have…* was recorded and mixed by Mark Desimone at Soundtrack NY, except for “Amy’s Song (The Bum Steer)”, which was mixed by Loren Bouchard (Bob’s Burgers, Home Movies). Jon is accompanied by Scott Kreitzer (saxophone), David Finck (bass), and Jonathan Peretz (drums). “Deal With the Devil” features Aziz Ansari and Kristen Schaal. P.O. BOX 8554 • OMAHA, NE / 4538 EAGLE ROCK BLVD • LOS ANGELES, CA 90041 P: (402) • SADDLE-CREEK.COM YOUNG JESUS Welcome to Conceptual Beach August 14, 2020 • 3rd LP on Saddle Creek TRACK LISTING • Limited edition green marbled vinyl limited to 150 copies. 01. Faith 7:04 • LP includes digital download. 02. Pattern Doubt 3:32 03. (un)knowing 4:09 “Young Jesus Are Indie Rock’s Great Anarcho-Impressionists” - Noisey 04. Meditations 6:43 05. Root and Crown 2:53 Imagine a shoreline alone, carved from the continent, without land or water to border it, a rind of possibility, a moon-colored 06. Lark 11:44 border between land and sea, knowing and unknowing. This is Conceptual Beach, a place John Rossiter, vocalist/guitarist of 07. Magicians 10:09 Los Angeles-based Young Jesus, describes as his long-time mental refuge, where he imagines himself living—like a medieval, stigmata-wrought hermit—all his needs for okay-ness nally met. 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Opening with Kern’s version of the Purdie Shue, to Marcel’s polyrhythmic RADIO PROMOTION bass, to Eric's organ solo, and held together by John's whispered prayer that, “we just might grow,” Young Jesus oer a music College, Commercial & Specialty Radio uniquely in service to emotion. “(un)knowing” is a “meditation celebration,” a song about the confusion and pain of re-examin- ing a life—of committing to a life of experience and curiosity. Mixing the spirit and experimentation of OK Computer with the radio@saddle-creek.com sincerity of Bon Iver, “Root and Crown” is the rst song that oers a way out of the traps and patterns of a life.