Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance (20th Anniversary) [White Vinyl]

Format: LP, White Vinyl
Catalogue No.: OLE583LP
Barcode: 0744861058304 
Release Date: 10 Nov 2023
Genre: Rock

Back in print on white vinyl this November 3rd for the first time since 2003: ‘The New Romance’ by Pretty Girls Make Graves, the latest installment of Matador’s ongoing catalog series Revisionist History.

Pretty Girls Make Graves formed in Seattle in 2001, fused together out of the still glowing embers of nearly a dozen important groups. Andrea Zollo and Derek Fudesco had played together in Death Wish Kids and Area 51 along with Dann Gallucci, with whom Derek formed Murder City Devils. Shortly before the Murder City Devils called it quits, he and Andrea started Pretty Girls Make Graves with J. Clark (who was in Kill Sadie and Sharks Keep Moving) and Nick Dewitt and Nathan Thelen (both in Bee Hive Vaults).

Brilliantly produced by Phil Ek (Modest Mouse, Built To Spill, Les Savy Fav), ‘The New Romance’ magnifies Pretty Girls Make Graves’ songcraft and technical prowess while letting some air into their songs and keeping things in crisp focus. Every song on ‘The New Romance’ is an anthem, yet without traditional verses and choruses. Tension builds and shifts without conventional release, as moments of glassy beauty and rousing aggression trade sides.

Tracklisting
Something Bigger, Something Brighter
The Grandmother Wolf
Mr. Club
All Medicated Geniuses
Blue Lights
Chemical, Chemical
7
The Teeth Collector
Holy Names
The New Romance
This Is Our Emergency
A Certain Cemetery