{"product_id":"cst087-elfin-saddle-devastates","title":"CST087 Elfin Saddle | Devastates","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eElfin Saddle deepens its compositional and conceptual agenda on Devastates, the band's third full-length album and its most urgent, ornate and impassioned work to date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe Montreal group, led by multi-instrumentalists Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie (who also share vocal duties), has always shown a profound engagement with issues of environmental sustainability and the emotional impact of economic\/political ideologies that continually foreclose on the possibility of genuine, progressive renewal and redirection. The band's music-making – and the parallel art practice on display in Honda and McKenzie's installation and video work – investigates the tensions between nature and technology on multiple levels. With Devastates, this is explicit in the lyrical narrative of the album as a whole and implicit in the band's use of found and re-purposed objects to create its soundworld.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eThe new album weds an operetta-style song cycle to an organic, junkshop aesthetic to great effect, forging a unique hybrid folk music that weaves Honda's trilling vocals (often singing in Japanese) and McKenzie's woodsy, unaffected baritone with threads of clattering steam-engine percussion, ukulele, accordion, glockenspiel and pump organ. The addition of Kristina Koropecki's cello alongside long-standing third member Nathan Gage (Shapes \u0026amp; Sizes) on upright bass allows for a doubly melodic\/rhythmic low-end.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRecorded in a small abandoned chapel in rural Quebec, Devastates is intimate and humbly epic, anchored by a DIY aesthetic and fuelled by the desire to say something both critical and hopeful about our common earthly trajectory. This is profoundly un-escapist and engaged folk music that avoids the obvious trappings of folk traditions, grounding the listener in a sonic and narrative terrain that stakes out a highly original and distinctive definition of protest song.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Constellation Records","offers":[{"title":"180gLP+MP3","offer_id":56361845653796,"sku":"gua1789925429182","price":16.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"180gLP+WAV","offer_id":56361845686564,"sku":"vgl1789925429183","price":15.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD+MP3","offer_id":56361845719332,"sku":"oea1789925429184","price":8.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3","offer_id":56361845752100,"sku":"xei1789925429185","price":5.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"WAV","offer_id":56361845784868,"sku":"wrw1789925429186","price":5.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2772\/3044\/files\/cst087-elfin-saddle-devastates_1.jpg?v=1789925434","url":"https:\/\/burtprimehub.shop\/products\/cst087-elfin-saddle-devastates","provider":"burtprimehub","version":"1.0","type":"link"}