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Bellows "Next of Kin" CD
Bellows "Next of Kin" CD

Bellows "Next of Kin" CD

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$14.00 USD

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SKU: TSR234

Topshelf Records

Digipak CD

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Track List:

  1. Marijuana Grow
  2. No One Wants to Be Without a Person to Love
  3. My Best Friend
  4. Rancher's Pride
  5. Death of Dog
  6. McNally Jackson
  7. Such a Secret
  8. Biggest Deposit of White Quartz
  9. Dawn at Central Park
  10. Beautiful Spring Day
  11. In a Ballet
  12. Admiration
  13. Thumb in the Dam
  14. Botticelli's Venus
There is an immediate and palpable sense of joy that jumps out from Next of Kin, the fifth full-length album from bedroom recording project Bellows. But the record is steeped equally in loss: loss of family, beloved dogs, friendships, romantic love, and most of all loss of selfhood. Backwardly inspired by the wealth of loss, Next of Kin sees songwriter Oliver Kalb discovering a renewed sense of appreciation for life in the face of hardship, freshly emboldened to move through the world with a loosened grip on life: β€œI’m not its master, I give up the fight, I want no claim”, Kalb writes in β€œDeath of Dog”.

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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 β€œMcNally Jackson” and β€œDawn at Central Park” marry Kalb’s penchant for contemplative, almost literary narration with lavish, kinetic composition. But it’s Next of Kin’s climax β€œThumb 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.

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Pressing Info:

first press:
/250 - 180g transparent glass
/150 - 180g black
/100 - 180g transparent emerald

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