ARTIST: ROSE COUSINS TITLE: BRAVADO GENRE: FOLK/AMERICANA RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 21, 2020 lp: out9132lp upc: 623339913218 12” slip sleeve, black vinyl cd: out9132cd upc: 623339913225 digipak natomy, Supergirl and Nashville among others. LP CD OVERVIEW Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous, pop-minded music, specializing in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. While 2017’s In Mind longed for normalcy against the backdrop of a life as strange as a touring musician’s. The Main Thing brings that longing to a universal and urgent place, acknowledging the anxieties inherent in protecting a quiet existence. What emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictions as they are lifting hooks. “I’ve got this family, and I feel this responsibility to gild this crazy world,” says guitarist, singer and primary songwriter Martin Courtney. The record’s most sentimental moments, then, are crystallized home movie flashes directed at Courtney’s children. “I can’t imagine what will be / in your earliest memories,” he sings on “You.” These mentions are set against darker realities; on “A Silent World,” he pleads, “Can’t let you wander off / Out in this wicked world.” Then there’s guitarist Julian Lynch’s first authored song for the band, “Also A But,” in which disembodied vocals intone “a poison bloom” and “mushroom cloud” apocalypse, set against sci-fi synths, unresolved guitars and propulsive drums. Instead of exploiting the juxtapositions between these opposing emotional modes, Real Estate embraces cohabiting contradictions. “It didn’t feel dark to me,” Courtney clarifies. “To me, it’s the normal stuff.” TRACKLISTING 1. Friday This duality is built into the arrangements themselves, interlocking emotionally with the nuance of the lyrics. 2. Paper Cup (feat. Sylvan Esso) “Gone,” about casting out toxic phantoms of the past, sets ominous descending strums against dirge-y drum 3. Gone machine before clearing the air with a lilting guitar lead. “Procession,” hallmarked by a bright, two-note motif set 4. You under shifting chords and beats, pits hometown pining against generational complacency. The effect is like gazing 5. November through a rearview mirror masked by fog, a sentimentalism so obfuscated you’re forced to look forward instead. 6. Falling Down “We create our own nostalgia. I’m constantly moving so I have more to reflect on,” explains Courtney. “If you look at the first record, it was a wistful feeling we wanted to explore. As we get older, the complexity has become more 7. Also A But obvious,” adds bassist and singer Alex Bleeker. That’s paralleled in the album artwork itself; the band enlisted 8. The Main Thing Bjorn Copeland of Black Dice, whose visual work focuses on recycling byproducts of consumer excess, to mimic 9. Shallow Sun the layout of Days. Bleeker describes their intention as “the understated Real Estate layout run through Bjorn’s 10. Sting pedalboard.” The effect is uncanny, reflective of this record’s astute self-awareness. 11. Silent World 12. Procession A working title for Real Estate’s fifth album was Special Album. Instead, they settled onThe Main Thing. In part, 13. Brother it’s a reference to the Roxy Music song: “Even before we decided where to record or who to record it with, I knew it needed to sound that good,” enthuses Courtney. “Which is an impossible goalpost, and a good thing.” But the CATALOG NUMBER: WIG426 “main thing” has another meaning for the group: a declaration of music making’s centrality to their own senses RELEASE DATE: February 28, 2020 of self. “We discovered through the care and attention that we brought to this record that making music to FILE UNDER: Alternative “R” resonate with other people is our catharsis,” says Bleeker. “The ‘main thing’ is following your path of inspiration, and hoping to inspire that in people around you. Hopefully the album itself will re-affirm peoples’ commitments CD to themselves and to each other, as it did for us.” Classic Real Estate reference points are still here – Yo La Tengo, UPC: 887828042623 Felt, Steely Dan – but they’re refined into hazier grooves, expanded into extraterrestrial sonic layers, deepened into slow-rolling phases. You can’t hit an impossible goalpost, but you can come close. Pouring all their hopes, dread, excitement, love and labor into these pristine arrangements, Real Estate made The Main Thing a special album indeed. DOUBLE LP w/ DOWNLOAD UPC: 887828042616 SELLING POINTS • The band’s catalog has scanned 200k+ units in • Triple A & non-commercial radio campaign for Vinyl is non-returnable the US. Each studio album on Domino 2011’s Days, "Paper Cup (feat. Sylvan Esso)" leading into 2014’s Atlas, and 2017's In Mind has scanned release. Previous singles from 2017's In Mind INDIE EXCLUSIVE DOUBLE LP more than 160k+ album sales in the US, almost charted top 20 in Mediabase Triple A charts. 50% physical. w/ DOWNLOAD • Deluxe LP is a limited edition tip-on gatefold LP UPC: 887828042630 • Publicity campaign by Shore Fire Media (Bon Iver, jacket with a centrally mounted square illustration St. Vincent, Bruce Springsteen). Previous album on the cover, printed inner sleeves, and black campaign highlights include TV performances on 2xLP vinyl. Standard LP is a standard gatefold LP Vinyl is non-returnable Conan, CBS Saturday Morning, and Letterman. jacket, printed inner sleeves, and black 2xLP vinyl. TOUR DATES 04-09 Detroit, MI - El Club 04-23 Boston, MA - Royale 04-10 Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall 05-07 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater 04-11 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 05-08 Los Angeles, CA - Fonda 04-13 Omaha, NE - Slowdown 05-09 San Diego, CA - Belly Up 04-14 Kansas City, MO - The Truman 05-10 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom 04-15 St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room 05-12 Dallas, TX - The Granada Theatre 04-16 Indianapolis, IN - The Vogue 05-13 Austin, TX - Stubb’s 04-17 Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl 05-14 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall 04-18 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse 05-18 Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre 04-20 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat’s Cradle 05-19 Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge 04-21 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 05-21 Seattle, WA - Neptune Hall 04-22 Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer 05-22 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Jonah Yano I Majesties Key To Love (Is Understanding) LITA 45-039 7" Single I Digital UPC: 826853453974 -Latest release in Light In The Attic's Cover Series -Artwork by Robbie Simon -Pressed on "Majestic Pink" wax -45 RPM single housed in a heavy, uncoated sleeve The latest installment of Light In The Attic's exclusive vinyl and digital singles series features Toronto's BADBADNOTGOOD with Jonah Yano on vocals covering "Key To Love (Is Understanding)," originally recorded in 1982 by Milwaukee's funk/soul pioneers Majesties. The newly recorded cover and the original version are available for streaming and on "Majestic Pink" 7" vinyl. "As lovers of old soul, funk and rare recordings, 'Key to Love' has always been a song that has had an impact on our heart and ears," BADBADNOTGOOD said. "We hope our version relays how special this song is and gives it some new listeners and a second life[ ... ] It's an incredibly beautiful song that deserves to be heard, and we hope to play a small part in that." The original Majesties single is highly sought after by diggers and DJs worldwide not only for "Key To Love (Is Understanding) but also for "Class A", which is considered the first-ever rap recording to come out of Milwaukee. "It is a pleasant surprise," Donald Cooper of Majesties said upon hearing BADBADNOTGOOD's version of the song. "They did a good job and it was well done with their own slight personal twist [ ... ] [it's] an honor to be recognized." The single follows Mac DeMarco's cover of Haruomi Hosono's "Honey Moon" in the series, which features artwork conceptualized by Los Angeles-based fine artist Robbie Simon. These tunes come on the heels of widely popular past entries in the series, including pop-auteur Ariel Pink with future-funk pioneer Dam Funk covering Donnie & Joe Emerson's eternal anthem "Baby," the inimitable Mark Lanegan covering the melancholy folk of Karen Dalton, and the one-and-only Iggy Pop with the Zig Zags transforming Betty Davis' dirty funk into a heavy Sabbath grind. TRACKLISTING: 1. BADBADNOTGOOD featuring Jonah Yano - "Key To Love (Is Understanding)" 2. Majesties - "Key To Love (Is Understanding)" STREET DATE: February 21, 2020 111111111111111111 I s 26853-4539-7I 4 V/A – KEARNEY BARTON: ARCHITECT OF THE NORTHWEST SOUND LITA 168 — 2xLP | CD | Digital • Remastered and restored audio • Booklet with liner notes and rare archive photos • Includes previously unreleased tracks When Seattle–based recording engineer Kearney Barton died in 2012, the 80 year–old studio veteran had spent the past 50 years recording the cream of the Seattle music scene through the decades. The Fleetwoods, Quincy Jones, The Ventures, The Wailers, The Sonics, Ann Wilson (Heart), The Frantics, The Kingsmen, and Dave Lewis to name a few. Barton also captured Seattle’s vibrant 1960s–70s R&B and soul scene, including Black On White Affair and Soul Swingers, among others, as documented in Light in the Attic’s Wheedle’s Groove series. In his later years Barton’s old school reputation drew in contemporary bands like Young Fresh Fellows, The Smugglers, The Minus 5, and The A–Bones into his studio. Essentially, when a local unknown band wanted to make a demo tape, or record their debut album, or perhaps someone just wanted to capture their uncle playing banjo or their kid sister’s first songs, they’d go to Barton’s studio.