{"title":"Juanita Stein","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"snapshot","title":"Snapshot","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuanita Stein returns with her new album,\u003ci\u003e Snapshot,\u003c\/i\u003e the Howling Bells singer and guitarist’s third solo LP.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking with the producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves, Nadine Shah), Snapshot was written and recorded over a period of eight months following the sudden death of Stein’s father, Peter, in 2019. Juanita was exceptionally close to her dad - he was her earliest introduction to music and gifted her a childhood “exploding with sounds of 60s folk, rock’n’roll, delta blues, country and soul”. She describes feeling “a compelling inspiration I’d not felt before” during songwriting sessions for the album, which is entirely given over to Stein and her family’s changed world following Peter’s death. The title track, \u003ci\u003eSnapshot,\u003c\/i\u003e was the last song to be written and, she says, “is me clinging on to what I have left of him in my mind.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong with Hillier, Stein recruited her brother (and Howling Bells bandmate), Joel, on guitar, jazz drummer Evan Jenkins, and Jimi Wheelwright (bass) to help realise the songs. The album is a progression from her two previous solo LPs, which had both been recorded during intensive sessions of just a few weeks, and both in the U.S. The benefits conferred by the extra time and space, plus being close to home during this time of grief, can be heard in its more expansive, exploratory, sometimes downright psychedelic sound. Despite the album’s tough subject matter, Stein’s voice is, as ever, a balm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nude","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50454381330763,"sku":"1098027","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50454383722827,"sku":"1098502","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/79627d38-3d64-4c30-8b9d-03b97e6af28d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727183247"},{"product_id":"america-6","title":"America","description":"\u003cp\u003eStein formed Howling Bells with her brother, Joel, and friends when they moved to London together in 2004. Four acclaimed albums followed, along with headline tours and festival shows around the world, and huge support dates including several US tours with Coldplay and The Killers. A break from Howling Bells around the arrival of her first child saw the first shoots of her solo work start to emerge, and now we find ourselves here. America, an unpredictable place, forever bound up in a uniquely widescreen hope and romance. An evocative and beautiful record (produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, Ryan Adams) in L.A.), Stein’s honeyed voice weaves stories of heartbreak and optimism, from the unmistakably Western-influenced \u003ci\u003eDark Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, to the moody love song, Cry. \u003ci\u003eFlorence\u003c\/i\u003e is inspired by a real-life photograph by Dorothea Langue, taken during the Great Depression, of the eponymous Florence Owens Thompson, a tale of a struggle for themselves and their children that’s as relevant to women of the world today as it ever was. The songs on the LP tell tales of characters real and imagined, Stein’s own experiences woven amongst them. Says Stein of the album: \"This record is an ode to the dark heart of America. Of times gone and times to come. Dusty trails, a whimsical 50s suburbia and the haze of the 1960s. I've forever idealised American life - growing up in Australia we were fed the American dream through film and television. The dichotomy between what was real and a dream is forever intriguing to me. The music of Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield, Lee and Nancy and Patsy Cline all informed my musical sensibilities. They opened up this wide screen universe for me.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - With Download.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nude","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471338148171,"sku":"1013966","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471338574155,"sku":"1013965","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/606089ee-be60-48e2-afc2-97f8af25412b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727398963"},{"product_id":"until-the-lights-fade","title":"Until The Lights Fade","description":"\u003cp\u003eJuanita Stein’s second solo album arrives less than a year after her first, \u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e, saw the former Howling Bells front-woman exploring the iconography and cultural landscapes of a country that had always fascinated her from afar. Yet, while \u003ci\u003eUntil The Lights Fade\u003c\/i\u003e is cut from the same musical cloth as its predecessor - the crepuscular twang of bar-room guitars, the keening romanticism of its melodies, the sparseness and simplicity of its arrangements - the album’s ten songs are concerned with thoughts, feelings, stories and characters rooted far closer to home. The Album was produced by Stuart Sikes (The White Stripes, Cat Power, Loretta Lyn) at his studio in Austin, TX.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Red Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nude","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50471567851851,"sku":"1034428","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471567982923,"sku":"1034429","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dbefbbf6-c181-4b30-b8ff-f0b1e7eb9e1c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727408268"},{"product_id":"the-weightless-hour","title":"The Weightless Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoise felt safe, noise felt important – and for a long time, Juanita Stein surrendered to it. It took two decades of hard-earned wisdom, both from the radical act of leading Howling Bells and the baptism of fire that followed when she created alone, to learn that silence is louder. Stein’s fourth solo endeavour, The Weightless Hour, is an intensely human document with a profound sense of dignity. It’s the kind of record which is armed with experience and yet is all the lighter for it, where your attention isn’t demanded and yet effortlessly claimed. There is strength, she has discovered, in restraint. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With \u003ci\u003eThe Weightless Hour\u003c\/i\u003e, every sound, every choice, has earned its place. Stein joined forces once more with long-time collaborator, the producer Ben Hillier, whose direction can be felt in the works of Depeche Mode, Doves, Blur and Elbow. After originally collaborating with Stein to shepherd \u003ci\u003eSnapshot\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) into being, her third record built from collected fragments of grief following the loss of her father, it was Hillier’s penchant for minimalism – his instinct for risk-taking while stripping sounds back to their gleaming bones – that she felt was aligned with her vision for her fourth project. As a young woman, Stein would never have dreamed of suggesting that her name be included on the production credits for her albums, despite feeling she’d co-produced many of the albums she had written. Hillier, however, didn’t hesitate to acknowledge her – a testament to their mutual respect and creative alliance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Through these converging chapters of her life, \u003ci\u003eThe Weightless Hour\u003c\/i\u003e feels like an arrival for Juanita Stein: “I’ve finally learned to be okay in space and be loud in my experiences.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vacancy","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50905911394635,"sku":"2230768","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50905911296331,"sku":"2230767","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Juanita_Stein_-_The_Weightless_Tour_f14e99c9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1732860048"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/juanita-stein.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}