Summer At Land's End, by The Reds, Pinks & Purples

Summer At Land's End

by The Reds, Pinks & Purples

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Peyton Cease I like this one Favorite track: Tell Me What's Real.

audient_lang This music makes me feel good. Chimey and wonderful, like slo-mo dancing in a meadow on a beautiful summer evening. Favorite track: Pour The Light In.

Simon Grant An absolute joy from start to finish. Favorite track: Don't Come Home Too Soon.

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When there's just too much great Reds, Pinks & Purples for one record... This yellow vinyl edition includes a bonus (and quite marvelous) instrumental album and is packaged in a gorgeous gatefold sleeve. Available only direct from us or at select independent record shops. LIMIT ONE PER CUSTOMER, PLEASE.

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1.	Don't Come Home Too Soon 03:12	buy track
2.	Let's Pretend We're Not in Love 03:05 video	buy track
3.	New Light 02:52	buy track
4.	My Soul Unburdened 02:21	buy track
5.	Summer at Land's End 07:01	buy track
6.	Pour The Light In 04:09	buy track
7.	All Night We Move 02:42	buy track
8.	Tell Me What's Real 03:05	buy track
9.	Upside Down In An Empty Room 03:14	buy track
10.	Dahlias and Rain 02:36	buy track
11.	I'd Rather Not Go Your Way 01:55	buy track

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"Summer at Land's End" is not an interlude or tangent for The Reds, Pinks & Purples but rather a perfect fourth movement following the albums "Anxiety Art," "You Might Be Happy Someday," and "Uncommon Weather." As with these self-recorded records (the primary work of songwriter Glenn Donaldson), the songs on "Summer at Land's End" were crafted slowly and then drawn together to make a unified statement. But here, and more than before, "Summer at Land's End" combines Donaldson's rueful pop sensibility with a parallel musical universe, one composed of pictures, dreams, and feelings without words. Even if the underlying theme of this collection is one of conflict or unhappiness, the vision of the music presents an escape to a new world, always fading in and out of sight.

For listeners who may not be familiar with Donaldson's corner of San Francisco––the Richmond district––or the current wave of hazy, melodic DIY pop groups performing in the city, "Summer at Land's End" pulls in images and scenes that feel like a collision of the mundane and the sublime of this present landscape. But settings such as these are the backdrop for personal narratives, expressed as a struggle with love, with companionship and the conflicts of home. With this record, The Reds, Pinks & Purples give less focus to the vanities of a subculture and more to the challenge of connecting with someone, to the ordinary goals of being human and finding harmony with others.

This deliberate saturation in drama and ambiance, along with some of Donaldson's best songwriting to date, is what gives "Summer at Land's" End its special class in the project's discography. Of the album's cinematic mood, Donaldson refers to films like "Summer of '42" and the influence of the classic 4AD catalogue of the 1990s. This style informs much of Donaldson's prior and current ventures of course (The Ivytree, Vacant Gardens, and a dozen projects in between) but now The Reds, Pinks & Purples have taken the mantle, embracing this instinct for instrumental or dreamier modes of pop songwriting. It's a pleasure to experience "Summer at Land's End," as this record finds a thrilling balance between songs and sounds, instruments and voices, and the ironic twin poles of art and life.

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released February 4, 2022

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The Reds, Pinks & Purples San Francisco, California

SF Sadcore

music by Glenn Donaldson with Kati Mishikian, Lewis Gallardo, Thomas Rubenstein & Daniel Pearce

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