catalogue

BLITZEN TRAPPER

FURR (DELUXE) (SUB POP)

BLITZEN TRAPPER - FURR (DELUXE) 127037
format:
2 LPD
release:
14.09.2018
label:
SUB POP
item ID:
127037
barcode:
0098787125313
Initial copies on Clear vinyl with Gold swirl! Blitzen Trapper is the Portland, Oregon-based experimental country and folk rock band, who in 2008 released Furr, its breakthrough album and label debut for Sub Pop.

The record was met with universal acclaim, earning praise from the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork, Paste, AV Club, and Rolling Stone, who in its four-star review called the album "an engaging album full of rootsy beauty." The album would earn the no.

13 spot on Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2008 later that year. For the newly expanded deluxe edition of Furr, Blitzen Trapper have compiled over two LPs worth of material: the original album and twelve rare and previously unreleased tunes.

The added songs are from the same recordings that become Furr, with the exception of the "Live at KCRW" tracks, which were recorded during the Furr tour.

The songs "War is Placebo," "Booksmart Baby," and "Maybe Baby" appeared as limited-edition singles for Record Store Day in 2009 and 2011.

This reissue also features new liner notes from Eric Earley reflecting on the album, as well as a track-by-track description of the bonus songs, and a Q&A with the stage and screen actor Rainn Wilson (of The Office fame).

"With Furr I was attempting to create my own tiny sonic world of freak folk in order to tell the tale of the Northwest as I remembered it growing up: a misty, empty, bedraggled place of mystery and violence, logging ghost towns and glutted rivers, dark creatures glimpsed from the corner of the eye in the endless evergreen forests where we'd go as teenagers hunting dark spirits, looking for trouble or trying to dodge our troubles back home.

That even a few people have found beauty and solace in the stories and sounds on this record over the years is rewarding and astounding, humbling and affirming." - Eric Earley, Portland, Oregon 2018
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. SLEEPYTIME IN THE WESTERN WORLD
  • 1.2. GOLD FOR BREAD
  • 1.3. FURR
  • 1.4. GOD & SUICIDE
  • 1.5. FIRE & FAST BULLETS
  • 1.6. SATURDAY NITE
  • 1.7. BLACK RIVER KILLER
  • 1.8. NOT YOUR LOVER
  • 1.9. LOVE U
  • 1.10. WAR ON MACHINES
  • 1.11. STOLEN SHOES & A RIFLE
  • 1.12. ECHO/ALWAYS ON/EASY CON
  • 1.13. LADY ON THE WATER
  • 2.1. WAR IS PLACEBO (2009 RECORD STORE DAY SINGLE)
  • 2.2. SIMPLE TREE (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.3. BOOKSMART BABY (2009 RECORD STORE DAY SINGLE)
  • 2.4. HEROES OF DOUBT (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.5. MAYBE BABY (2011 RECORD STORE DAY SINGLE)
  • 2.6. BALLAD OF BIRD LOVE (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.7. HARD HEART (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.8. OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.9. ON MY WAY TO THE BAY (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.10. RENT-A-COP (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
  • 2.11. GOD & SUICIDE (LIVE AT KCRW)
  • 2.12. FURR (LIVE AT KCRW)