Alabaster DePlume "A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole" COLOR:THAT WAS MY GARDEN Japandroids have returned with Fate

Japandroids have returned with Fate and Alcohol

against-all-odds rise has been well documented: how he transcended a bleak life on the streets and struggled through a series of ill-fitting jobs before finally being discovered by Daptone's Gabriel Roth

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Alabaster DePlume "A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole" COLOR:THAT WAS MY GARDEN Japandroids have returned with FateA Blade Because a Blade is Whole is the latest album from London based composer poet activist improviser Alabaster DePlume, his first major work following 2022s GOLD and 2020's To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol 1. The 11 song album covers all of DePlumes musical touchstones: lush and gentle instrumentals informed by ghostly ancient folk melodies; groove focused rhythm explorations as a bed for self searching spoken declamations; sweeping and beautiful