{"title":"Volcano!","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pinata-2","title":"Pinata","description":"\u003cp\u003elimited clear vinyl - 300 copies with cd version. dmm cut using high quality 24 bit masters. almost four years in the making, chicago trio volcano! have delivered the long-awaited follow-up to 2008's celebrated paperwork album. their outstanding third offering, 'pinata', is well worth the wait - by any measure it's their best yet. 'pinata' is the sound of volcano! past distilled into a most potent formula for the present: unsparingly concise, stickily melodic, lyrically stronger and stranger, darkly humorous, ferociously driven, fabulously inventive. clocking in at just over 40 minutes, the album has an aggressive energy that's as exciting as it is unpredictable. it's leaner and meaner than its predecessors, with the themes behind the songs drawn from more familiar sources. \"they're mainly based on weird fantasies,\" says frontman aaron with. \"our goal was to tell stories with strange but universal sentiments.\" the fantasies that form the foundations for certain songs are hardly commonplace musings on love and life. 'child star' imagines its protagonist (re)born with all the skills and experience of a previous life, gaining competitive advantage over a helpless peer group. 'st mary of nazareth' takes the listener on a tour of a spaceship disguised as catholic hospital, where the nurses are nuns, and the nuns are aliens. lead single 'pinata' is a petty vision of posthumous karmic retribution, while 'fighter', the album's dramatic centrepiece, is a violent revenge fantasy set to music. but while the songs can be complex conceptually, the incisive compositions ensure they effortlessly get under your skin. more immediate than anything the trio has crafted before, it makes perfect sense that at the time of writing 'pinata', volcano! were indulging themselves on radio hits alongside a steady diet of music from the outer reaches of the spectrum. meanwhile the band has lost none of the playful, idiosyncratic elements that make them unique. \"we kept the weird energy, the melodic tension, and the neurotic rhythm,\" says with, \"but we've made the framework a little more decipherable.\" not a second is wasted as volcano! gleefully take a baseball bat to musical convention in the name of great pop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50437258576203,"sku":"351139","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dec3425f-7e3a-495f-8ac7-7daf4e80af74_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726928429"},{"product_id":"paperwork","title":"Paperwork","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolcano!\u003c\/strong\u003e presents their second album, \u003cem\u003ePaperwork\u003c\/em\u003e. Described as prog, complex, experimental, lush, polyrhythmic, post-rock, jarring, uplifting, catchy, and mind-blowing, 'Paperwork' showcases the magnificently wonky otherness of the band's sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir debut album, 'Beautiful Seizure', was highly acclaimed, named the number 2 album of 2006 by Drowned in Sound readers and receiving a perfect 10\/10 review on the site. After a two-year hiatus, the band returns with a more mature and direct record, still showcasing their complex layering of sounds but with greater focus and structure, making it more danceable than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Paperwork' delves into themes of workplace issues, loss of idealism, and a coming of age story, with frontman Aaron With delivering meaningful lyrics. The album is housed in a superbly designed digipak, meeting the high standards set by the Leaf label. Fans of Dirty Projectors, Deerhoof, Why?, Liars, Battles, and even Sparks will find something to love in this album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50437259821387,"sku":"304670","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3454e0cf-87ca-44e2-8c17-91ecd3f43474_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726928451"},{"product_id":"africa-just","title":"Africa Just","description":"\u003cp\u003estrictly limited to just 500 hand-numbered copies for the world. 'africa just wants to have fun' announces the return of chicago trio volcano! following a two-year hiatus. the lead single is taken from the band's second album, 'paperwork', set for release on september 1. 'africa just wants to have fun', like much of the new material, demonstrates a more playful, immediate side to the band, while clinging to the unpredictability and originality that defines their sound. the song is a razor-sharp satire of certain rock stars who purport to save the world with dubious, self-serving rhetoric. on the flip is 'performance evaluation shuffle' (slow version), a re-recording of the opening track on 'paperwork'. this downbeat quasi-croon reflects a theme of disillusionment in the workplace that runs throughout the album. on the leaf label.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":50437261197643,"sku":"304266","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/volcano.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}