{"product_id":"goners","title":"Goners","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery purchase online or instore gets a free Rough Trade \/ City Slang sampler CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is her best record, and also her strangest. \u003ci\u003eGoners\u003c\/i\u003e, the fifth album from acclaimed singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Laura Gibson, found its name in the first line she wrote in the bleak beginning of 2017: There are hauntings and transformation, odd birds and harbingers. Women become wolves, men metamorphose into machines, ghost-children wave in the rearview mirror, a scar becomes a vessel for memory. Her lyrics are populated with sharp objects: a needle, a thistle, a sickle, a scythe, claws and animal teeth. Much of \u003ci\u003eGoners\u003c\/i\u003e explores the loss of her father as a teenager, and her wrestling with the decision of whether or not to become a parent herself. Gibson co-produced the songs with engineer and friend John Askew, with whom she’d also collaborated on her 2016 album, \u003ci\u003eEmpire Builder\u003c\/i\u003e, in his Portland, OR, studio. They began as simple demos, but Gibson kept returning to the studio to tinker, until she realized these demos had become a record. She ditched her guitar on half the songs and instead played piano and Wurlitzer. She enlisted a number of long time collaborators, including guitarist\/synth extraordinaire Dave Depper (Death Cab for Cutie), drummer and found-sound percussionist Dan Hunt (Neko Case), and stand-up bassist Nate Query (the Decemberists); then built horn and woodwind arrangements with Kelly Pratt (St. Vincent and David Byrne, Father John Misty) and imaginative string parts with Kyleen King (Stephen Malkmus, Case\/Lang\/Veirs).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Dark Green Vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Slang","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50449266016587,"sku":"1044590","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f5562f4c-d781-4c74-a17d-7779f561d5cb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727100946","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/goners","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}