{"product_id":"another-age","title":"Another Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are a million songs dressed in white t-shirts and American denim, songs that drift through open spaces in some busted sedan, over lost highways that become tributaries to eventual static, crawling traffic and stifling density. There are a million more songs about being wild and green in the cities and outside them: a song about love for every person on this earth. \u003ci\u003eAnother Age\u003c\/i\u003e, the debut album from Robert Earl Thomas, avoids inhabiting these clichés even as it embraces their personal influence: this is an album about small moments with big emotional footprints, told humbly and honestly. Thomas is not new to making records. A founding member of Brooklyn-based indie outfit Widowspeak, he’s previously lent his talents as a lead guitarist to that band as well as the experimental pop group Vensaire. He began writing and home-recording songs two years ago, gradually and purposefully in moments of solitude between tours, between stints working in a Seattle woodshop and at a hotel in the Catskills, and during weeks couch-surfing back and forth across Brooklyn. For \u003ci\u003eAnother Age\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas combined these intricately layered demos with tracks from a two-week studio session in the winter of 2016 at Marcata Recording in New Paltz, NY with producer Kevin McMahon (Swans, Real Estate, Widowspeak). It’s a debut that plays the part without succumbing to it, more pastel romantic comedy than sepia historic drama. There are stylistic nods to Springsteen and Dire Straits, Arthur Russell’s more folk-leaning output, the various collaborations of Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. But Thomas seems intent on conveying his specific take on these things over emulating them; you get the impression that he’s just as inspired by karaoke renditions of \u003ci\u003eI’m On Fire\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e as he is by the originals. And the stories he tells are full of intimate moments and observations: a walk home from a lover’s apartment, a long night drive back upstate, a quiet Wednesday morning existential crisis; musings as to the significance of a Winona Ryder portrait on the wall of a stranger’s bedroom; the sense of discovery that comes with being young in a city with a new person, and the sense of loss when that novelty is gone. \u003ci\u003eAnother Age\u003c\/i\u003e is indoor music at its most expansive, rock and roll held at arm’s length.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Captured Tracks","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50452502118731,"sku":"1023366","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/31dcbb22-3c79-4a12-839d-347d40a3c0e4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727154320","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/another-age","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}