FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE 'TRAFFIC AND WEATHER' LP - GOLD/BLACK SWIRL 11/04/2024

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE 'TRAFFIC AND WEATHER' LP - GOLD/BLACK SWIRL 11/04/2024LABEL: Real Gone Music VINYL RELEASE DATE: 11 25 2022 ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2007 VARIANT: Gold w Black Swirl Vinyl LP Not since Ray Davies has a songwriter been able to craft such sharply observed vignettes in the space of a three minute pop song like the late Adam Schlesinger. And on 2007's Traffic and Weather, Fountains of Wayne's fourth album, Schlesinger took his art to a new level, singing short stories as varied as crushing on a DMV clerk

were not big enough and I had to sing very loud just to hear myself

Written and recorded over the last two years –both in and out of lockdown –these songs mark a shift toward something louder

who was also responsible for the original pressing

Go Fuck Yrself

Six of the album's songs were produced by Nile Rodgers in New York City

Never Before Seen

Here (In Your Arms)

and The Hard Times vinyl variant is 140g on “Inky Black on Clear

Originally released in 2006 in advance of the band's Wolves In Wolves Clothing album

5 Comin' Back to Me

Limited edition BLUE/BLACK SPLATTER vinyl of this vintage concert by industrial legends Ministry in the midst of their self-reinvention from new wave darlings to the formidable aggro-machine they would become

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