{"product_id":"celebrants-2","title":"Celebrants","description":"\u003cp\u003e“My God it’s good to see you...”\nThat first line from Nickel Creek’s seventh album Celebrants likely prophesies the warm\nresponse awaiting the Americana-bluegrass group’s first all-new release in nine years.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the Grammy-winning trio of singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalists Sara Watkins\n(fiddle), Sean Watkins (guitar), and Chris Thile (mandolin) had sporadically collaborated since\n2014’s A Dotted Line, a 2020 interview pegged to the twentieth anniversary of Nickel Creek’s\ndebut album ignited a spark. “It was fun to have a reason to wax nostalgic about some stuff\nthat we'd done,” says Thile. “And then when we got together, it was just so clear, ‘Oh, yeah,\nwe've got some new music to make.’\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey certainly did. The long layoff yielded a bounty of 18 interconnected songs written\ncollectively during a creative retreat in Santa Barbara in early 2021. The tracks form a mosaic\nthat is beautiful from a distance, but each tile also tells its own story.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We wanted it to be our most ambitious album,” says Sean Watkins, “meaning spending the\ntime that we've never had to fully explore our musical ideas and take them as far as we\npossibly can.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo assist in bringing that vision to fruition the Watkins siblings and Thile decamped to RCA\nStudio A in Nashville with trusted producer Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Grace\nPotter, Weezer) and recruited Grammy-winning producer-songwriter Mike Elizondo (Fiona\nApple, Eminem, Joy Oladokun) to hold down bass duties and serve as another set of ears.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is perhaps the most audacious yet accessible release of the Grammy-winning\ntrio’s 34-year career.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wide-ranging soundscapes include the melodic pop elation of “Celebrants,” the gauzy,\nthe hazy harmonic swirls of “The Meadow,” the gentle balladry of “Holding Pattern,” and the\nyearning “Failure Isn’t Forever,” which brightly bends towards hope. The entire enterprise is,\nnaturally, shot through with the trio’s virtuosic picking and shiver-inducing harmonies. The\nlyrics - addressing love, friendship, time, and the universal travails of travel - combine the\npoetic and plain-spoken, hitting a sweet spot of ethereal and relatable as bridges are built,\ncrossed, burned, and rebuilt.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“My favourite music is beautiful or exciting and makes me curious and think ‘I want to hear\nthat again!’” says Sara Watkins. “In the first day or two of writing we knew that we wanted\neach song to stand alone as something that's special and complete, but in the context of a\ncomplete album, each song just has a whole new dimension.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thirty Tigers","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50477525696843,"sku":"2008692","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477525270859,"sku":"2008691","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50477526122827,"sku":"2008693","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/20000000188944_4f9383a9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727473874","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/celebrants-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}