Hard Believer - 10 Year Anniversary Edition - Aztec Gold
Artist
Format
Genre
Style
Label
Release Date
10/25/2024
Store
Price
Limited to 500 copies
Aztec Gold.
Rough Trade Exclusive.
Triple 140 Gram Vinyl Housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Expanded Booklet Featuring Archival Photos and “Making Off” Extract.
Limited to 500 copies.
Catalog Number: RPCD001XL
Color: Gold
Format: LP
UPC: 5054429197815
10 Year anniversary edition of a classic that now includes Denmark Street, Electronic Monkey Sessions and live versions available on vinyl for the first time ever.
Hard Believer was the first release on the R'COUP'D
imprint, a label newly created by Greenall with the backing of the Ninja
Tune team.
Recorded in seventeen days at Hollywood's legendary Sound Factory
studios with producer Billy Bush (Garbage, Beck, Foster the People),
Hard Believer is shot through with rawness and controlled aggression; an
album replete with calm beginnings seguing into powerfully hypnotic
loops and climactic finales. It is a masterful collection of songs from
an artist at the peak of his creative powers.
Urban, bluesy, and alive, the album presents ten brand songs,
including the mighty "Shakespeare", a tale of young love gone tragically
sour as the mood darkens from acoustic to guttural rock; the spiky yet
delicate "Looking Too Closely", riding an irresistible piano-and-guitar
groove; "Green And The Blue", on which a vulnerable Greenall meditates
on the constants in life that see
you through tough times; "Two Days Later", a deeply personal lament and
one of only two songs on the record that start and remain down-tempo;
and the breathtaking "Pilgrim", the latest collaboration with songwriter
Blair Mackichan, co-writer of "This Is The Thing" from Fink's 2007
Distance and Time, and "Honesty" from 2011's Perfect Darkness.