Widowspeak "The Jacket" CD (2022)

Details: Widowspeak's sixth album, "The Jacket," released on Captured Tracks (2022). CD-version. New stock, sealed. Description: "Widowspeak’s sixth album started out with loose strings of a concept, a story about a fictional band: a chain-stitcher working in the satin district of an unnamed city, a neighborhood of storefront tailors devoted to elaborate costumery for country-western, art rock, ye-ye cover bands that populate the street’s bars after dark. The narrator joins one such outfit, “Le Tex” and feels a sense of belonging and momentum, movement beyond what was previously a stable, predictable life. A relationship with a bandmate materializes. Eventually, the group start to write originals. They generate goodwill and momentum and venture out on the open road seeking new opportunities beyond what the satin district can offer. But the vibrational energy that got things moving is the same that shakes the whole thing apart: the relationship, and the band, disintegrate upon finally r