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 Thief,
the third LP proper from Dan Bejar and company is by far our most "professional"
release yet "real" packaging, great recording, and appealing to more than
just an adventurous few. Bejar is a songwriter of the highest order and we couldn't
be more proud to be helping release Thief. At the risk of patting ourselves
on the back too much, we offer this quote, which sums the record up better than
we ever could (though we might insert Al Stewart in for Bowie), from John Darnielle's
Last
Plane to Jakarta website: "I’m going to tell you one thing, and I’m going
to say it a lot of times and in a couple of different ways so you get my meaning.
This album is a masterpiece. This album is a masterpiece. This album
is a masterpiece....Yes. Yes. The lyrics. The music. The Bowie damage. No,
scratch that: the heavy, heavy Bowie damage. The title track, which is the last
song on the album, reserving its fierce, muffled, distorted burst of electric
guitar until its final ten seconds. The song titles: “To the Heart of the Sun
on the Back of the Vulture, I’ll Go.” “City of Daughters.” “Death on the Festival
Circuit.” Some of the best lyrics available anywhere. The use of religious language
to describe reactions to pop songs. A guy singing in a slightly breathy voice
over a nylon-strung guitar and some piano: “Yes, throw yourselves away, don’t
save yourselves,” the sound of release in his voice drenched with mood and emotion
without being overworked. (Not that Bejar is not willing to overwork it when that’s
what he thinks a song needs.) Thief swings like a child playing in a hammock.
Every song on it is terrific. Don’t be like me and wait until you can feel like
you discovered it yourself. Run out and get it and then nag your friends to do
the same. They will all thank you before they’re halfway through the record."
Co-released by the fine folks at Triple Crown Audio and Cave Canem Records.
The CD is a seemingly unlimited edition, four color process printing in standard
jewel cases. LP edition of 300 copies, two color silkscreen, white stock jackets. | |     We
expect to get more copies in in the near future, but in the meantime, you can
probably get copies from Merge
or Scratch Records. 
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