{"product_id":"andy-jenkins-since-always-vinyl","title":"Andy Jenkins - Since Always","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eAndy Jenkins new album Since Always came from letting go-of\r\nself-perceptions, of expectations, of assumptions. Jenkins found space\r\nto trust himself as the guitarist for his own songs, and producer Nick\r\nSanborn stepped into a new kind of production role, dreaming up ideas\r\nand filtering through them together. There was, in short, a very adult\r\ntrust to it all, two fans working in tandem to make something; a record\r\nwhere the loss and love, compromise and gain of adulthood come into\r\nfull view.\r\nBoth busy pieces of their respective but intertwined music scenes in\r\nRichmond and Durham, Jenkins and Sanborn had been fans of one\r\nanother for years but had never formally collaborated. Jenkins had spent\r\na few years gathering songs for the follow-up to his 2018 debut, Sweet\r\nBunch; the new ones were intricately rendered odes to the assorted\r\nassurances and anxieties that can come with finding some measure of\r\ncontentment as you cross into yours 30s. Don't send demos, Sanborn\r\nsuggested; simply drive the two hours down, and live in the studio for\r\ntwo weeks while spring drifted into the South.\r\nAs Jenkins rolled through his tracks, Sanborn listened and allowed his\r\nimagination to run wild and flooded Jenkins with ideas-rhythmic shifts,\r\nkeyboard flourishes, vocal effects. There was double-time piano, a\r\nmistake dropped into \"Too Late\" they both loved. There was the\r\nVocoder selection during \"Emptiness Is,\" a choice that allowed the pair\r\nto hang so much of the song on bass and drums alone. There was the\r\nsequence that bubbles beneath \"Leaving Before,\" a mirror of the lyrical\r\nnervous heart.\r\nWhen Amelia Meath and Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner were palling\r\naround the studio, Sanborn asked if they would mind singing on a few\r\ntracks. That's Meath on \"Blue Mind,\" sweetly trailing Jenkins' lines\r\nabout being under love's spell like she's offering an incantation, and\r\nWasner rising through the static dawn of \"Lovesick.\" \"Andy wanted\r\nsomeone to make decisions he would never make,\" remembers\r\nSanborn. \"It was this mining operation we got to do together.\"\r\nAs the songs steadily cohered, though, Jenkins insisted it was finally\r\ntime to drop his guitars. \"I have never been a particularly competent\r\nguitar player,\" he says now with a little laugh, but Sanborn loved the\r\nidiosyncratic way his strums sat against his voice, so he stalled. They'd\r\nneed to wait for Jenkins' longtime collaborator, an ace named Alan\r\nParker, to come down from Richmond and replace those parts. When\r\nParker did, he heard the same thing as Sanborn-yes, he was more\r\ntechnically proficient, but his overdubs didn't have the same personality,\r\nthe same narrative truth. Jenkins relented, so his guitars stayed and\r\nanchor the album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54875879637338,"sku":"7850068758730","price":8.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0977\/2692\/3098\/files\/4424958-3388528.jpg?v=1790665312","url":"https:\/\/groovedeck.shop\/products\/andy-jenkins-since-always-vinyl","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}