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Title: Next of Kin
Condition: New
Format: Cassette
EAN: 0634457062948
Genre: Rock
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
While foundationally a rock album, Next of Kin has a magical iridescence. Oscillating and shifting dramatically between sounds and genres over its fourteen song tracklist, the album glistens with sheens of alt-country, pristine pop production, and richly layered rock maximalism. The first Bellows album to feature a constant full-band presence bolstering Kalb's home recordings, the album channels the immediacy and intensity of the band's live performances. Songs like 'McNally Jackson' and 'Dawn at Central Park' marry Kalb's penchant for contemplative, almost literary narration with lavish, kinetic composition. But it's Next of Kin's climax 'Thumb in the Dam' that is the album's thematic centerpiece: as Kalb realizes he's lost a sense of his own selfhood in a deeply enmeshed romance, crossing and confusing identities with a lost love, the album ends with a recognition of identity as perpetually in flux, with change itself being the only constant force. 01 - Marijuana Grow 02 - No One Wants to Be Without a Person to Love 03 - My Best Friend 04 - Rancher's Pride 05 - Death of Dog 06 - McNally Jackson 07 - Such a Secret 08 - Biggest Deposit of White Quartz 09 - Dawn at Central Park 10 - Beautiful Spring Day 11 - In a Ballet 12 - Admiration 13 - Thumb in the Dam 14 - Botticelli's Venus
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
No Of Discs: 1
Artist: Bellows
Record Label: Topshelf Records

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