{"product_id":"exquisite","title":"Exquisite","description":"\u003cp\u003eHunkered down and unable to record together, in 2020 the Mekons created a glorious digital chain letter of an album. \u003ci\u003eExquisite\u003c\/i\u003e is a sprawling manifesto of connection and defiance that deftly slides through fiddle tunes, digi-dub, fireside ballads and urgent rock \u0026amp; roll. And that’s just side A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original recording plan was to have been the whole-band-in-a-room session in Valencia, Spain. When the pandemic rendered that impossible the process took a sharp swerve. The album credits describe it this way: \"\u003ci\u003eExquisite\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded in lockdown on mobile phones, broken cassette recorders, clay tablets \u0026amp; other ancient technologies in Aptos, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York \u0026amp; Devon. \"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music, and \u003ci\u003eExquisite\u003c\/i\u003e is another powerful vector of that legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glitterbeat","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50454305112395,"sku":"1140143","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8e700661-bc24-4af3-b1b6-dc0c0ca82aeb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727182653","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/exquisite","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}