{"product_id":"lina-tullgren-decide-which-ways-the-eyes-are-looking-vinyl","title":"Lina Tullgren - Decide Which Ways the Eyes Are Looking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eHello and welcome to Decide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking, the new record by Lina\r\nTullgren. It is a deeply gorgeous intervention, a carefully ornamented dilemma, the most\r\ninviting crisis. Made with a host of Los Angeles musicians, Decide exposes Tullgren's\r\ndaring and trust. Each song is a ring of curious sound: the skip of harp strings, the flutter\r\nof woodwinds, the ratchet of percussion, the euphonium's sigh. And at the center of each\r\nwreath, Tullgren sings, finding this space between Judee Sill and Sam Jayne. It's a tone\r\nthat signals weariness, but a weariness hand-in-hand with tenacity. There's a clarity, a\r\nkind of immovability.\r\nLina Tullgren's first record came in 2016, a homemade, under-the-skin set of laments.\r\nSubsequent LPs and constant touring cemented Tullgren's reputation as a composer of\r\n\"wide-eyed wonder paired with a resonant despair.\" 2019's Free Cell showed Tullgren\r\nlingering in the margins of their songs, finding places both aloof and spare. Floodgates\r\nopened; Tullgren spent the subsequent years exploring deep listening, improvised music,\r\nand extended technique. They developed a patience and faith in cooperation that ranged\r\nat the far edge of song. Collaborations with Mayo Thompson and Claire Rousay furthered\r\nthis development. This was not a break with the past for Tullgren, rather it was an\r\nopportunity to see how far a song could go. And from that distance, deep in a landscape\r\nof drone and tension, Tullgren returned to the bright vulnerability of a lyric and a hook.\r\nWeaving together the affective and the radical, Tullgren took the quiet isolation of a\r\nshoreline cabin to write the songs that would become Decide Which Way The Eyes Are\r\nLooking.\r\nFor Tullgren, Decide is a culmination of all the work they've done throughout their life: the\r\nmelodic, the dense, the confessional, the unknowable. It's also a tribute to collaboration.\r\nDescribing the sessions as having \"a lot of space and a lot of ease,\" Tullgren invited\r\nmusicians from a vast field of songmaking to play on the recording: Leng Bian, Zach\r\nBurba, Luke Csehak, Corey Fogel, Jenny Hirons, Tara Milch, Tim Ramsey, Michael\r\nSachs, Jude Tedaldi, Marta Tiesenga and Ben Varian. Jonny Kosmo's backhouse was\r\noffered as a cozy, easygoing space for the players to create their parts together, and the\r\nrecord was completed by Tullgren and Luke Csehak together at their Los Angeles home.\r\nIn Tullgren's words: \"I feel really strongly that this album is a portrait of the community I\r\nfound in Los Angeles.\"\r\nDecide Which Way The Eyes Are Looking is a quiet masterpiece: a generous, memorable\r\njourney. It is the result of five years of labor, the product of abandoning the pop song\r\nentirely and starting over. Whatever wanderings or doubt fueled it, Decide is also entirely\r\nat ease: a record on which Tullgren sings \"and I know\/what to do now\" and \"I know exactly\r\nwhat to do\" in subsequent songs, clear in the revelations this path has given them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54756436509010,"sku":"3795853953677","price":8.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/1820\/8850\/files\/4394005-3306987.jpg?v=1789651241","url":"https:\/\/u31jvi-vq.myshopify.com\/products\/lina-tullgren-decide-which-ways-the-eyes-are-looking-vinyl","provider":"My Store 2","version":"1.0","type":"link"}