The vinyl reissue of The Language Shadow is officially out today! Co-release by Feeding Tube Records and Good Cry Records. Distributed by Forced Exposure.
In celebration, KR has added an early electric demo version of Dancing to Death to Bandcamp. ❤
Western and eastern Mass join together: Feeding Tube Records and Good Cry Records will reissue the original limited 12″ vinyl run of The Language Shadow, by Kass Richards. Official release date June 18, 2021. Pre-orders available now at https://kassrichards.bandcamp.com/album/the-language-shadow; further details at https://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/the-language-shadow/.
The Language Shadow – Vinyl SOLD OUT
Digital format still available on:
Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon | Deezer | iHeartRadio
and more… thanks y’all ❤
Hey y’all, thanks so much for your support so far of The Language Shadow. We’re down to about two dozen vinyl copies! Tangible musical formats live on.
Remaining copies are available at https://kassrichards.bandcamp.com/album/the-language-shadow. ❤
Limited vinyl edition + digital album available through Bandcamp. Further digital versions available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Tidal, and others.
Kass Richards’ first ever solo album, The Language Shadow, is out today. Throughout this haunting song set our narrator meditates on the challenges of communication, returning to the theme with an insistence that suggests an emotional necessity; as though only through repeated effort can we break through the fog to speak clearly to ourselves, to our family, and past the mortal divide, to the ghosts whose memory forms us. The result is an album of timeless honesty: a contemporary echo cast north from the Blue Ridge Mountains (where Richards is originally from) up to a cold Canadian city, a candle lit that softly guides a path of reflection. These are songs as gifts that seek to be shared in mournful times.
Album credits:
Kass Richards: vocals, nylon string guitar, Appalachian dulcimer, tambourine, piano tuning pin chimes
Basia Bulat: Moog, Roland
Geordie Gordon: Guelph pump organ, Hammond organ, Mellotron
Tim Kingsbury: Electric ghost guitar
Zou Zou Robidoux: Cello on “Nature”
Recorded at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, Nov. 2019 and March 2020
Co-produced by Kass Richards and Basia Bulat
Sound engineer: Shae Brossard
Mastering: Harris Newman
Cover art: Allyson Mellberg-Taylor
Cover art photography: Nafis Azad
Sequencing assistance: Tim Kingsbury
Front and back cover imagery for vinyl copies of The Language Shadow, out December 4. Charlottesville, VA-based artist Allyson Mellberg-Taylor created the original egg tempera painting for the front cover, using all natural/non-toxic pigments. Some of the green in the painting is from actual turquoise.
Digital photo/scan by Nafis Azad (who nailed those lush colors).
Layout by Kass Richards.
Pre-orders for The Language Shadow are available at https://kassrichards.bandcamp.com/album/the-language-shadow.
Kass Richards presents a new single, “Daughter,” from her forthcoming debut solo album The Language Shadow, out December 4, 2020 on Good Cry Records.
“Daughter” features treated electric guitar by Tim Kingsbury (Arcade Fire), and is presented alongside a cinematic video which Richards co-directed with Ohio filmmaker and educator Lindsey Martin. Click here to watch the video.
“Daughter” follows “Atlantis,” which came out last month with a stunning 3D video by New Mexico-based multimedia artist Sara Ludy.
Pre-orders for The Language Shadow are available at https://kassrichards.bandcamp.com/album/the-language-shadow
Kass Richards will release her debut solo album, The Language Shadow, on December 4 on Good Cry Records. Limited vinyl run including original artwork by Allyson Mellberg Taylor. Lead single “Atlantis” is out today, with an original video by Sara Ludy.
The Language Shadow was recorded over two sessions at Montreal’s Hotel2Tango studio, engineered by Shae Brossard and co-produced by Basia Bulat and Richards. Richards’ vocals and nylon string guitar were tracked live, with Basia Bulat, Geordie Gordon (U.S. Girls), and Tim Kingsbury (Arcade Fire) joining in after, improvising the subtly refined arrangements further. Cellist Zou Zou Robidoux appears on cover of Jennifer Castle’s “Nature.”
Watch the Video for Lead Single “Atlantis”
Pre-orders available starting today. Visit kassrichards.bandcamp.com for more info.
Reissue of Jordan Perry’s self-titled debut LP out today. Click here to order yours. $15 + s/h. Includes free download.
This is a co-release by Feeding Tube Records and Good Cry Records.
Featuring cover imagery by Molly Landergan, a.k.a. Telegraphic Tree.
Pre-orders are available for the reissue of Jordan Perry’s self-titled debut LP. Click “Contact” above to order yours. $15 + s/h. Includes free download.
This is a co-release by Feeding Tube Records and Good Cry Records.
Featuring cover imagery by Molly Landergan, a.k.a. Telegraphic Tree.
Official release date: March 23, 2018
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