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Inspired by a recent infatuation with “eerie and gothic country music,” Rhinestones moves from whispered lament to acoustic eulogy to downtempo vignettes, tracing muted embers of loss and lust through haunted city streets. Taking cues from the economy and brevity of western folk but skewed through a narcotic, nocturnal lens, the album maps enigmatic badlands of strung out beauty and lengthening shadows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNigel Yang cites friendship as a central muse, “particularly the forging of it, and its potential for new feelings of telepathy and trust.” Jonnine Standish’s wounded, alluring vocals echo similar mysteries of connection and unknown crossroads, poetic but direct, dream diaries faded with age and rain. The rhinestones of the title evoke the glittering plastic of cowboy glamor, yet “made precious somehow;” Standish cites as an example a baby blue star brooch from Texas, gifted to her “from a stoned friend on New Year’s Eve 10 years ago in Brighton – cheap keepsakes can be more valuable than diamonds.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven for a group as enduringly versatile as HTRK, Rhinestones is a revelation, condensing their lyrical alchemy to its simmering, magnetic essence. \u003ci\u003eSunlight Feels Like Bee Stings, Reverse Déjà vu,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGilbert and George\u003c\/i\u003e in particular are masterpieces of drama, delivery, and distillation, dried flowers clouded by smoke, the candle’s flame flickering but unforgotten: “Some things are not like the others \/ Some friends are not like the others \/ did I ever say \/ did I ever say \/ did I ever say thank you?” \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"N and J Blueberries","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50480362225995,"sku":"1133447","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2232bf2c-15f3-422c-8918-b869a38689c1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727519148"},{"product_id":"nostalgia-5","title":"Nostalgia","description":"\u003cp\u003eHTRK’s seminal debut gets a new cut to white vinyl with white sleeve and gloss cover. An abrasive record shrouded in sonorous pulses, deafening feedback and tension-soaked reverb that immerses you deep into their world. HTRK’s lo-fi post-punk, post-industrial noise-electronica echoes Suicide, Throbbing Gristle and Joy Division. HTRK (formed 2003) are a mysterious three-piece from Melbourne who reside in Berlin and London. inspired by the sounds and images of David Lynch, the Birthday Party and electronic artist Pita, HTRK effortlessly create music of sublime tension and beauty. Heavily processed and bathed in reverb, \u003ci\u003eNostalgia \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection of 7 live recordings from 2004. 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First released in 2009 via Blast First Petite, the album saw its first vinyl pressing in 2015 via Ghostly International and has since been out of stock. \u003ci\u003eMarry Me Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e now becomes available in limited edition pink and black vinyl. Few groups in history elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, aka HTRK (or \"hate rock\" if informed). Across two decades of work and wounds, HTRK’s sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. In HTRK’s sound world, cavernous reverberations of dub techno are mixed with frosted post-punk motifs and the gravelly imperfections of industrial, reimagined in the setting of a dingy basement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike all HTRK albums, \u003ci\u003eMarry Me Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e was singular in sound and circumstance. It's the only album the outfit recorded from start to finish as a trio, and it's the only HTRK record that bears the co-production stamp of Rowland S. Howard. Breathy, caustic, and rife with contradiction, \u003ci\u003eMarry Me Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e took the raw material recorded on 2005's \u003ci\u003eNostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e and transformed it into a pop record — pop that buckled and warped beneath the glare of Howard, fellow producer Lindsay Gravina, and the HTRK trio: Jonnine Standish, Nigel Yang and Sean Stewart. Howard died at the end of 2009; Stewart died the year after. Things would never be the same. 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