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Throughout its history, Pedro the Lion has had a fluid lineup, with Bazan being the only consistent member from album to album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome notable members who have contributed to Pedro the Lion include Brian Olson (drums), Nick Peterson (guitar), Tim Schiefer (guitar), Travis Smith (bass), Johnathon Ford (bass), Blake Wescott (drums), Benjamin Brubaker (drums), Josh Golden (bass), Ben Gibbard (bass - on tour), Trey Many (drums), Casey Foubert (drums\/keyboards), TW Walsh (drums), Ken Maiuri (bass), James McAlister(synthesizer, percussion, drums, guitar) Erik Walters(guitar) and Sean Lane(drums).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoy artists such as Cursive, David Bazan himself or bands like The Good Life and Jeremy Enigk, then you'll definitely appreciate Pedro the Lion's unique sound. 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The songs themselves are the result of mining your past for who you are now. On opening track \u003ci\u003eYellow Bike\u003c\/i\u003e, Bazan encapsulates a core ache he’s been exploring since 1998’s \u003ci\u003eIt’s Hard to Find a Friend\u003c\/i\u003e with the line: My kingdom For someone to ride with. \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e also deals with having to be better to yourself in order to be better to others on \u003ci\u003eQuietest Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, and harkens back to Control’s \u003ci\u003ePriests and Paramedics\u003c\/i\u003e with a story about EMTs facing a gruesome scene, and storytelling as coping mechanism, on \u003ci\u003eBlack Canyon\u003c\/i\u003e. It bears witness to both what was around and what was inside, with the signature kindness and forgiveness that lightens Pedro the Lion’s darkest notes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is a twisting, darkly hopeful introspection into home and what it means to go back, if you ever can. It is rock and roll wrapped in tissue paper, its hard edges made barely soft. Every melody is careful, a delicate upswing buoyed by guitar lines that hold each tender feeling together like string before ripping them apart to see what’s inside. It is an ode to the place he still loves despite how alien it can appear to him now. It is the story of a life from the beginning, but not a linear one. This life is a circle, and \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e goes back to that first point, to show that when we are looking for home we’ll eventually run into it again, whether it’s in the desert, in a rehearsal space, or on a stage. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Big Scary Monsters","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50471609073995,"sku":"1052514","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471608877387,"sku":"1052515","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/217b8315-29d9-4229-881a-92bbfa56825f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727409995"},{"product_id":"havasu","title":"Havasu","description":"\u003cp\u003eLake Havasu is a community of winding hillside roads, launched in the 1960s alongside a brick-for-brick rebuild of the original London Bridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s this very synthetic, gimmicky place set in this soulful, desolate landscape,” laughs Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan, who moved to the Arizona city for one year in seventh grade. Bazan collected his earliest childhood experiences for Phoenix, the prolific artist’s celebrated return to the Pedro moniker and the first in a planned series of five records chronicling his past homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo write its sequel, Bazan traveled to Havasu four times over several years, driving past his junior high campus, a magical skating rink, and other nostalgic locations that evoked feelings long suppressed. “An intersection I hadn’t remembered for 30 years would trigger a flood of hidden memories,” he says. “I was there to soak in it as much as possible.” Driving the inscrutable loops of Havasu’s lakeside, Bazan listened through an audiobook of Tom Petty’s biography, eventually dialoguing with Petty’s voice in his mind. A revelation from the book—that Petty subconsciously wrote the song “Wildflowers” as an act of kindness toward himself—inspired Bazan to approach his own work with radical generosity toward his young self. “I wanted to be there for that kid,” he offers. “That twelve year old still needs parenting, and still needs to process.” To revisit his past with openness, Bazan modified harmful work habits he’d accepted as necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Big Scary Monsters","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50477244875083,"sku":"1141974","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50477245628747,"sku":"1141975","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477246185803,"sku":"1141973","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d63cda92-4d61-42f8-a55d-ef325fdf3715_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727467333"},{"product_id":"b-3","title":"B","description":"\u003cp\u003ePedro The Lion Covers “B” By Lync. Lync “B” Original Version On The Flip Side. The early ‘90s Olympia trio Lync harnessed the same raw energy and passionate discord of the era’s San Diego and DC chapters of post-hardcore while building their songs on the foundation of the Pacific Northwest indie rock scene’s clever hooks and sophisticated melodies. In celebration of the recent reissue of Lync’s sole LP, These Are Not Fall Colors, singer-songwriter David Bazan has re-envisioned the album opener “B” under his Pedro the Lion moniker, stripping away the celebratory distortion and riotous clamor of the original for a hushed acoustic rendition in line with Bazan’s most austere slow- core moments. Paired together as a 7” single on Suicide Squeeze Records, these two versions of “B” highlight the multifaceted power of the original song, with Pedro the Lion’s version elevating its fundamental melodic weight, idiosyncratic chord structure, and poetic power, and the original Lync version reminding us how their distinctive brand of expressive dissonance and adrenalized execution transformed their cerebral pop songs into jagged masterpieces of the post-Nevermind punk underground.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Suicide Squeeze","offers":[{"title":"Purple 7\"","offer_id":50971645641035,"sku":"2231262","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Pedro_The_Lion__Lync_-_B_7_e0a3b7f4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734104930"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_ccf6390a_thumbnail_4096_c50d16e7-f864-4fa6-8845-b3929e5d3c97.jpg?v=1726795922","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/pedro-the-lion.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}