The Delines – The Imperial (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

The Delines – The Imperial (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 41:32 minutes | 737 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © DECOR

The Imperial is far from a standard rulebook-revising nostalgia turn. Both the stark realism of the romance-averse blue-collar settings (here, the narrators are too busy hustling for a living to croon sugar-coated rhymes about romantic ideals) and potent musical left-turns (such as the stripped-bare minimalism of the weary-beyond-words “Roll Back My Life”) make The Imperial sound thoroughly authentic, as opposed to a trip through someone else’s back pages.

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The Delines – The Sea Drift (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Delines - The Sea Drift (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

The Delines – The Sea Drift (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:42 minutes | 795 MB | Genre: Country, Soul, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decor – El Cortez

The third album proper for ‘County-got-Soul’s finest, The Delines, sees them exploring the US Gulf Coast, not far from where Amy Boone grew up. The songs in this cinematic opus all focus around this area and are inspired by when Amy asked Willy Vlautin to write her a song like Tony Joe White’s ‘Rainy Night In Georgia’ after her tragic accident being hit by a car in 2016 and her 3 year recovery. This follows on from 2019’s The Imperial which was number one in the UK official AMA charts for two weeks. Written and partially recorded before lock down the rest of the album was finished last Summer, produced by John Morgan Askew at his Bocce studios just outside of Portland, Oregon. The album features the classic line-up of the band with Amy Boone (vocals), Willy Vlautin (guitars, vocals, songwriting), Freddy Trujillo (bass), Sean Oldham (drums, vocals) and Cory Gray (keyboards, trumpet and arrangements) doing some of their finest work yet. Willy Vlautin has just published his sixth novel and we will be reissuing more of their previous band, Richmond Fontaine in later 2022.
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