{"product_id":"superchunk-wild-loneliness-indie-exclusive-limited-edition-peak-lp","title":"Superchunk - Wild Loneliness [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peak LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSingle LP on green \u0026amp; yellow color vinyl in same packaging as standard version. Full album download included. Ltd edition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndie\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e only.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike every record Superchunk has made over the last thirty-some years, Wild Loneliness is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eunskippably excellent and infectious. It’s a blend of stripped-down and lush, electric and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eacoustic, highs and lows, and I love it all. On Wild Loneliness I hear echoes of Come Pick Me \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUp, Here’s to Shutting Up, and Majesty Shredding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. After the (ahem, completely justifiable) anger \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof What a Time to Be Alive, this new record is less about what we’ve lost in these harrowing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etimes and more about what we have to be thankful for. (I know something about gratitude. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’ve been a huge Superchunk fan since the 1990s, around the same time I first found my \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eway to poetry, so the fact that I’m writing these words feels like a minor miracle.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn Wild Loneliness, it feels like the band is refocusing on possibility, and possibility is built \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einto the songs themselves, in the sweet surprises tucked inside them. I say all the time \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat what makes a good poem—the “secret ingredient”—is surprise. Perhaps the same is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etrue of songs. Like when the sax comes in on the title track, played by Wye Oak’s Andy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStack, adding a completely new texture to the song. Or when Owen Pallett’s strings come \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein on “This Night.” But my favorite surprise on Wild Loneliness is when the harmonies of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNorman Blake and Raymond McGinley of Teenage Fanclub kick in on “Endless Summer.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’s as perfect a pop song as you’ll ever hear—sweet, bright, flat-out gorgeous—and yet it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003egrapples with the depressing reality of climate change: “Is this the year the leaves don’t lose \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etheir color \/ and hummingbirds, they don’t come back to hover \/ I don’t mean to be a giant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebummer but \/ I’m not ready \/ for an endless summer, no \/ I’m not ready for an endless \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esummer.” I love how the music acts as a kind of counterweight to the lyrics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBecause of COVID, Mac, Laura, Jim, and Jon each recorded separately, but a silver lining \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis that this method made other long-distance contributions possible, from R.E.M.’s Mike \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMills, Sharon Van Etten, Franklin Bruno, and Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamong others. Some of the songs for the record were written before the pandemic hit, but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eothers, like “Wild Loneliness,” were written from and about isolation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI’ve been thinking of songs as memory machines. Every time we play a record, we \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eremember when we heard it before, and where we were, and who we were. Music \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecrystallizes memories so well: listening to “Detroit Has a Skyline,” suddenly I’m shout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esinging \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealong with it at a show in Detroit twenty years ago; listening to “Overflows,” I’m \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etransported back to whisper-singing a slowed-down version of it to my young son, that year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit was his most-requested lullaby.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWild Loneliness is becoming part of my life, part of my memories, too. And it will be part of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eyours. I can picture people in 20, 50, or 100 years listening to this record and marveling at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhat these artists created together—beauty, possibility, surprise—during this alarming (and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealarmingly isolated) time. But why wait? Let’s marvel now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Maggie Smith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv data-bt-autogen\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCity of the Dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEndless Summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn the Floor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHighly Suspect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet It Aside\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Night\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWild Loneliness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRefracting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnection\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIf You’re Not Dark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e*** Indie Exclusive ***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 673855078007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Merge Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.25.22\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Revival Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53234400624800,"sku":"673855078007","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/5899\/5360\/files\/4038309-2773922.jpg?v=1770363437","url":"https:\/\/vinylrevivalrecordstore.com\/products\/superchunk-wild-loneliness-indie-exclusive-limited-edition-peak-lp","provider":"Vinyl Revival Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}