Filthy Friends - Emerald Valley (CD)
- Emerald Valley
- Pipeline
- November Man
- Only Lovers Are Broken
- Angels
- The Elliott
- One Flew East
- Break Me
- Last Chance County
- Hey Lacey
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Catalog No.
- LP-KRS-654
- Tracks
- 10
- Pressing
- Download CardGatefold
Vinyl LP pressing includes digital download, housed in a gatefold sleeve. The first releases from Filthy Friends, the scorchingly melodic rock group whose membership consists of some of the most original musical voices of the past three decades, came as a small, delightful shock to the system. Not only because of the names associated with the project, including Sleater-Kinney co-founder Corin Tucker, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and indie stalwarts Scott McCaughey and Kurt Bloch, but also because of how ably they were able to mesh their individual sounds into a crackling melodic whole on debut album Invitation. Now, with their follow-up Emerald Valley, the Friends have proven their collective mettle, crafting a thematic suite of songs that finds the quintet digging deeper into their bag of musical tricks and giving Tucker room to rage about and mourn the fate of our planet and the people who inhabit it.
- Emerald Valley
- Pipeline
- November Man
- Only Lovers Are Broken
- Angels
- The Elliott
- One Flew East
- Break Me
- Last Chance County
- Hey Lacey
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 10
Emerald Valley is the sophomore effort from supergroup Filthy Friends, out May 3 on Kill Rock Stars. This album finds Corin Tucker, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, Kurt Bloch, and new drummer Linda Pitmon flexing their muscles both sonically and thematically: the music contains more surprises and sophistication, while the lyrics take on the current state of our planet and our people. The album title and title track come from another name for Eugene, OR, Tuckers home city, and evolved, in her words, into ""a sort of manifesto about the kind of place we are at as a country but also as a region. Just taking stock of where were at and feeling like I can't believe we let things get this bad.
