{"product_id":"850068258130","title":"SINCE ALWAYS | VINYL RECORD (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndy Jenkins, Andy Jenkins new album Since Always came from letting go-of  self-perceptions, of expectations, of assumptions. Jenkins found space  to trust himself as the guitarist for his own songs, and producer Nick  Sanborn stepped into a new kind of production role, dreaming up ideas  and filtering through them together. There was, in short, a very adult  trust to it all, two fans working in tandem to make something; a record  where the loss and love, compromise and gain of adulthood come into  full view.  Both busy pieces of their respective but intertwined music scenes in  Richmond and Durham, Jenkins and Sanborn had been fans of one  another for years but had never formally collaborated. Jenkins had spent  a few years gathering songs for the follow-up to his 2018 debut, Sweet  Bunch; the new ones were intricately rendered odes to the assorted  assurances and anxieties that can come with finding some measure of  contentment as you cross into yours 30s. Don't send demos, Sanborn  suggested; simply drive the two hours down, and live in the studio for  two weeks while spring drifted into the South.  As Jenkins rolled through his tracks, Sanborn listened and allowed his  imagination to run wild and flooded Jenkins with ideas-rhythmic shifts,  keyboard flourishes, vocal effects. There was double-time piano, a  mistake dropped into \"Too Late\" they both loved. There was the  Vocoder selection during \"Emptiness Is,\" a choice that allowed the pair  to hang so much of the song on bass and drums alone. There was the  sequence that bubbles beneath \"Leaving Before,\" a mirror of the lyrical  nervous heart.  When Amelia Meath and Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner were palling  around the studio, Sanborn asked if they would mind singing on a few  tracks. That's Meath on \"Blue Mind,\" sweetly trailing Jenkins' lines  about being under love's spell like she's offering an incantation, and  Wasner rising through the static dawn of \"Lovesick.\" \"Andy wanted  someone to make decisions he would never make,\" remembers  Sanborn. \"It was this mining operation we got to do together.\"  As the songs steadily cohered, though, Jenkins insisted it was finally  time to drop his guitars. \"I have never been a particularly competent  guitar player,\" he says now with a little laugh, but Sanborn loved the  idiosyncratic way his strums sat against his voice, so he stalled. They'd  need to wait for Jenkins' longtime collaborator, an ace named Alan  Parker, to come down from Richmond and replace those parts. When  Parker did, he heard the same thing as Sanborn-yes, he was more  technically proficient, but his overdubs didn't have the same personality,  the same narrative truth. Jenkins relented, so his guitars stayed and  anchor the album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JENKINS,ANDY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48241832263925,"sku":"850068258130","price":20.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/9325\/5669\/files\/0850068258130.jpg?v=1780886728","url":"https:\/\/thevinylvista.com\/products\/850068258130","provider":"Vinyl Vista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}