{"title":"Andy Jenkins","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"sweet-bunch","title":"Sweet Bunch","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of our favourite labels, Mathew E White's Spacebomb, comes Andy Jenkis' Sweet Bunch springing into the world fully-formed, sitting at the crossroads of modernism and timelessness, sensitivity and decision, with the expansiveness and musical drawl of Big Star, the bounce of John Prine, and the curly, perfectly-carved melodies of George Harrison. Andy is a kind of unheard counterpoint, originating from the same small scene of independent Virginia youth culture that produced artists like Justin Frye (PC Worship) Natalie Prass, and Matthew E. White, all friends from his teenage years. He found the perfect seedbed for his particular sensibility in Spacebomb Records, a label known for offering high musicianship outside of the predictabilities of New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by longtime collaborator White, with the Spacebomb crew and another old friend, Phil Cook, running hard into midnight, Sweet Bunch was essentially recorded in three days of flow-state, with the drums, bass, keys, and guitars all live and nothing to regret. The source of this musical surety lies with Jenkins’ songwriting— natural and effortless as the glide of a swan or sailboat— matched in spirit and strength by the sweet bunch in the studio. Backed by some ringers and a very full chorus, Andy’s warm words come buoyed on cool streams of melody, telling the greater world that Virginia has become, once again, a musical frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - 6 Panel Softpack. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - 140 Gram Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spacebomb","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50530063876427,"sku":"1035466","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/88a8833d-3904-48dc-896d-c4821306a6fd_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728071738"},{"product_id":"since-always","title":"Since Always","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndy Jenkins new album \u003cem\u003eSince Always \u003c\/em\u003ecame from letting go—of self-perceptions, of expectations, of assumptions. Jenkins found space to trust himself as the guitarist for his own songs, and producer Nick Sanborn stepped into a new kind of production role, dreaming up ideas and filtering through them together. There was, in short, a very adult trust to it all, two fans working in tandem to make something; a record where the loss and love, compromise and gain of adulthood come into full view.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth busy pieces of their respective but intertwined music scenes in Richmond and Durham, Jenkins and Sanborn had been fans of one another for years but had never formally collaborated. Jenkins had spent a few years gathering songs for the follow-up to his 2018 debut,\u003cem\u003e Sweet Bunch\u003c\/em\u003e; the new ones were intricately rendered odes to the assorted assurances and anxieties that can come with finding some measure of contentment as you cross into yours 30s. Don’t send demos, Sanborn suggested; simply drive the two hours down, and live in the studio for two weeks while spring drifted into the South. As Jenkins rolled through his tracks, Sanborn listened and allowed his imagination to run wild and flooded Jenkins with ideas—rhythmic shifts, keyboard flourishes, vocal effects. There was double-time piano, a mistake dropped into “Too Late” they both loved. There was the Vocoder selection during “Emptiness Is,” a choice that allowed the pair to hang so much of the song on bass and drums alone. There was the sequence that bubbles beneath “Leaving Before,” a mirror of the lyrical nervous heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Amelia Meath and Flock of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner were palling around the studio, Sanborn asked if they would mind singing on a few tracks. That’s Meath on “Blue Mind,” sweetly trailing Jenkins’ lines about being under love’s spell like she’s offering an incantation, and Wasner rising through the static dawn of “Lovesick.” “Andy wanted someone to make decisions he would never make,” remembers Sanborn. “It was this mining operation we got to do together.” As the songs steadily cohered, though, Jenkins insisted it was finally time to drop his guitars. “I have never been a particularly competent guitar player,” he says now with a little laugh, but Sanborn loved the idiosyncratic way his strums sat against his voice, so he stalled. They’d need to wait for Jenkins’ longtime collaborator, an ace named Alan Parker, to come down from Richmond and replace those parts. When Parker did, he heard the same thing as Sanborn—yes, he was more technically proficient, but his overdubs didn’t have the same personality, the same narrative truth. Jenkins relented, so his guitars stayed and anchor the album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Psychic Hotline","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":51776954499403,"sku":"R2378-1775","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b968b144-e8e1-0f9e-b305-6d94c2a44d33.jpg?v=1746533367"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/andy-jenkins.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}