Naked Giants The Shadow LP DIE CUT SLEEVE

Naked Giants The Shadow LP DIE CUT SLEEVEThe Shadow is an album of growth. Each song on The Shadow examines an aspect of this growth through a different musical lens, adding up to a series of rock and roll vignettes of light, shadow, anxiety and responsibility. Frantic punk scenes of information overload are contrasted by patient drones of introspection; fun, ear worm musings of life as a young rock band are juxtaposed with the heavier responsibility of having a voice and not quite knowing

and I know how I get

and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze

With a mix of shorter energetic tunes and a monumental extended piece

No Room For Blue

” “Slow Down” and “(Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the) King of Rock & Roll” -- not to mention deep album cuts like “Keeps Me Running

gives the album a maturity that carries the listener through many facets of the soul music spectrum

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When you hear the sax on Salt Water

Coke Bottle Vinyl

Iracema A8

” The cover art by Holter’s childhood friend

And support for them is snowballing