catalogue

LEAN YEAR

LEAN YEAR (WESTERN VINYL)

LEAN YEAR - LEAN YEAR 116750
format:
1 CD
release:
20.10.2017
label:
WESTERN VINYL
item ID:
116750
barcode:
0751937438328
Lean Year is the debut, self-titled record by Richmond, Virginia based singer Emilie Rex and filmmaker/musician Rick Alverson (director of Entertainment staring Neil Hamburger, and the cult-drama The Comedy staring Tim Heidecker).

What for Rex was a departure from the structured life of academia toward the uncertain contours of a creative field, for Alverson was a return to form.

Having released 5 albums with his previous band Spokane, Alverson took a 10-year hiatus from music to write and direct feature films.

These departures and approaches bring a transience and listlessness to the album, like a walk interrupted by both curiosity and caution.

Rex and Alverson co-wrote the album over the course of a year at their home in Richmond, VA and recorded it in three sessions at the home studio of Chicago musician/engineer Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings, NOMO), who also performs on the record.

Alverson and Hall co-produced the album's ten tracks, drawing on both Hall's and Elliot Bergman's (NOMO) arsenal of instruments.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. COME AND SEE
  • 1.2. HER BODY IN THE SKY
  • 1.3. EARNER
  • 1.4. HOLY MOUNTAIN
  • 1.5. WATCH ME
  • 1.6. SONJA HENIE
  • 1.7. WATERLOO SUNS
  • 1.8. THE LOUDER VOICE
  • 1.9. FIGS
  • 1.10. NINES