{"product_id":"shovels-rope-little-seeds-180g-translucent-red-vinyl-lp-new","title":"Shovels \u0026 Rope LITTLE SEEDS 180g Translucent Red Vinyl LP NEW","description":"\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShovels \u0026amp; Rope \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLITTLE SEEDS \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180g Translucent Red Vinyl\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e LP Record\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNEW\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs partners in marriage and in the rootsy duo Shovels and Rope, Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent  have spent the last few years establishing themselves among \nthe premier practitioners of Americana, and they've done it as a cottage\n industry, writing, recording and performing everything themselves and \nhitting the road as a self-contained band, passing guitars and \npercussion back and forth onstage like a pair of expert jugglers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore recording their latest album, \u003cem\u003eLittle Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e, the pair \npassed into an even deeper level of collaboration by becoming parents. \nIt's the sort of thing that can make or break a husband-and-wife band, \nand fortunately, it's had the effect of making their music sound more \nlike the product of one person than ever before. (Their sound was pretty\n seamlessly unified to begin with.)\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eSurprisingly for a couple \nwho cut their album at home, having to tiptoe around the wee one's \nslumber sessions helped them produce their most unabashedly rocking \nrecord so far. Hearst and Trent have always known how to bash it out \nwhen the mood struck, but their previous albums were dominated by more \nof a back-porch folk feel, and even the occasional rockers were rooted \nin blues.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIt's obvious from the outset that parenthood has only\n increased the duo's desire to rock. The opening track, \"I Know,\" is a \ncrunching tune that's awash in overdrive, as Hearst and Trent \ndisassemble the façade of an unnamed musical dilettante brick by brick. \nSonically, the track has more in common with T. Rex than with anything \non the Americana charts. \"Botched Execution\" is equally relentless, \nthough it's driven more by the rapid-fire lyrics — about a convicted \nkiller on the run — than by guitar riffs. The duo depends more on \njunkyard percussion than a conventional drum kit for its beats, which \nmakes the rhythmic momentum all the more impressive.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003caside id=\"ad-backstage-wrap\"\u003e\n    \n\n    \n\n\u003c\/aside\u003e   \u003cp\u003eIn \"Invisible Man,\" the duo takes a decidedly dark lyrical\n inspiration — the onset of Alzheimer's disease for Trent's father — and\n turns it into one of the record's most raucous tunes, coming off like a\n collision between The Black Keys and The White Stripes. But Trent and Hearst haven't abandoned their roots on \u003cem\u003eLittle Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e, either; there are still plenty of reflective, folk-flavored moments here.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eQuiet\n mandolin picking opens \"St. Anne's Parade,\" a graceful ballad without \npercussion. \"Mourning Song,\" another track to address Trent's father's \nillness, is a sad, stately tune edged along by acoustic-guitar strumming\n and piano. \"Missionary Ridge\" is probably the most overtly \nfolk-inflected song on \u003cem\u003eLittle Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e, with just a mandolin and an acoustic guitar to frame the tale of the famous 1863 Civil War battle in Chattanooga.\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003eBut\n while the album — or, at the very least, the duo's state of mind while \nmaking it — was significantly informed by the birth of Hearst and \nTrent's child, the end of \u003cem\u003eLittle Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e deals with death. \n\"BWYR,\" the record's most unconventional track, responds to the 2015 \nmassacre of nine people in a Charleston church. Hearst and Trent make \ntheir home in South Carolina, and the tragedy hit home hard. The song's \ntitle stands for \"Black White Yellow Red,\" and in a dramatic \u003cem\u003eSprechgesang\u003c\/em\u003e, Hearst and Trent detail the ways in which people of all ethnic backgrounds are diminished by racially motivated violence.\u003c\/p\u003e   Even closer to home, as Shovels \u0026amp; Rope wrapped up work on \u003cem\u003eLittle Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e,\n Hearst and Trent lost a friend. They decided to dedicate the album's \nfinal track, \"This Ride,\" to his memory. It's a bittersweet musing on \nlife's rocky roads, and it's preceded on the album by a candid recording\n of a conversation in which their late friend related the colorful tale \nof being born in the back of a police car. From birth to death and back \nto birth again, Hearst and Trent take us through the entire cycle of \nlife on \u003cem\u003eLittle Seeds\u003c\/em\u003e. Now that they're more immersed in their \nown family life than ever before, their take on the entire journey \nresonates that much more deeply. —JIM ALLEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\t\t\t\t    \t\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e_______________________________________________________________\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" style=\"font-family:Arial\" size=\"4\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePACKING VINYL THE CORRECT WAY—I package each record to avoid bent corners and seam splits. 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