{"product_id":"music-is-victory-over-time-2","title":"Music Is Victory Over Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the decade or so that hard-working New York quartet Sunwatchers have operated, the group has steadily and subtly refined their sound - a brain-blasting mixture of jazz, psychedelia, krautrock, punk, noise, and Saharan blues - into something that is avant-leaning enough to appeal to the discerning jazz and experimental music fan and weird and wooly enough to get the true heads’ toes tapping. \u003ci\u003eMusic Is Victory Over Time\u003c\/i\u003e is the band’s 5th album, and fourth for Chicago-based Trouble In Mind Records, seeing the long-running lineup of Peter Kerlin (bass guitar), Jim McHugh (guitars), Jason Robira (drums), and Jeff Tobias (alto saxophone and keyboards) in prime form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving the distinct pleasure of being the first band to record in John Dwyer’s new LA-based recording studio Discount Mirrors, \u003ci\u003eMusic Is Victory Over Time\u003c\/i\u003e boasts a beefed up sound. The band worked closely with in-house engineer Eric Bauer - facilitator, troubleshooter, sonic obsessive, a legendary freak and a DIY lifer. The band also had full access to the studio’s epic armory of gear: amps, axes (it’s Dwyer’s Eddie Harris model electric sax), synths, a bass guitar once belonging to Klaus Flouride of the Dead Kennedys. Crucial for the sounds and the vibe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album art was created by Josh MacPhee, the activist artist, author, archivist and founding member of both the radical artist collective Just Seeds and Interference Archive, a public collection of materials from social movements based in Brooklyn. MacPhee's participation in the project works as a statement of Sunwatchers' progressive utopian intentionality, and organically underscores their involvement in revolutionary projects within and without of their hometown. Listening to \u003ci\u003eMusic Is Victory Over Time\u003c\/i\u003e, Sunwatcher’s rebellious spirit \u0026amp; unbridled enthusiasm remain fully intact, but the secret sauce is their infectious irreverence in the face of the horrors of this world. Much of our best cultural commentary is Trojan-horsed to the general public via humor and satire and the band has a knack for lacing the ridiculous with the radical. It’s good to have them back. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50394455638347,"sku":"2054796","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50394456523083,"sku":"2054799","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50394454589771,"sku":"2054795","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/faa3c57d-1772-38de-7a9d-12373ca55fe8_9eb6f5d9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726439858","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/music-is-victory-over-time-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}