Name: In Spades
Brand: The Afghan Whigs

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Bonus disc: No

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spcd1150

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Gatefold digipak with booklet and custom dust sleeve.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-05-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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098787115024

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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180 Gram Vinyl in Gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.

098787115017

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Afghan Whigs

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

Short for "Subterranean Pop" 

The label was an outgrowth of [a=Bruce Pavitt]'s Olympia, WA based (print) fanzine, which became the well respected cassettezine of the same name. 

After his move to Seattle he ran a music column in the Seattle Rocket also called Sub Pop.

After initial forays into the record label world with a [a=Green River] 7" (not officially on Sub Pop) and the Sub Pop 100 LP, the label exploded onto the indie scene with four influential colored vinyl 7"s which included [a=Mudhoney]'s "Touch Me I'm Sick" which made the year-end top 10 playlist of nearly every music journalist in the world.

Subsequent hyping of the label in the English music press put them on the map, and grunge was born.

Label-Code is 03159; rarely found printed on releases (basically only on releases manufactured/licensed by Warner/WEA Germany)

A soul-influenced alternative/indie rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, the Afghan Whigs were formed in 1986 by vocalist/guitarist Greg Dulli, guitarist Rick McCollum, bassist John Curley and drummer Steve Earle.

After releasing 6 LPs, a number of singles and EPs and a couple of drummers, the group disbanded in February of 2001, temporarily reforming in 2006 to record two new tracks for a best-of compilation.

In December of 2011, the core group of Dulli, McCollum and Curley announced its reformation to play a number of 2012 concert and festival dates, augmented by touring members Cully Symington, David Rosser and Rick Nelson.

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Cleromancy isn’t a word one normally finds in rock lyrics. Then again, In Spades – the latest album by The Afghan Whigs, from which the new song Oriole hails – is defined only by its own mystical inner logic. The term means to divine, in a supernatural manner, a prediction of destiny from the random casting of lots: the throwing of dice, picking a card from a deck. From its evocative cover art to the troubled spirits haunting its halls, In Spades casts a spell that challenges the listener to unpack its dark metaphors and spectral imagery. On the one hand, In Spades is as quintessentially Afghan Whigs as anything the group has ever done – fulfilling its original mandate to explore the missing link between howling Midwestern punk like Die Kreuzen and Hüsker Dü, The Temptations’ psychedelic soul symphonies, and the expansive hard-rock tapestries of Led Zeppelin and Lynyrd Skynyrd. At the same time, this new record continues to push beyond anything in the Whigs’ previous repertoire – another trademark, along with the explosive group dynamic captured on the recording. The joys, sorrows, and upheavals of innocence and experience echo throughout In Spades: it powerfully documents where The Afghan Whigs have been, and where they might go next. For Dulli and Curley, it’s a journey that, since their origins as one of the first Sub Pop acts to be signed from outside the label’s Pacific Northwest base, has spanned decades. In Spades was recorded at Rick Nelson’s studio Marigny Sound in New Orleans, LA.

CD - Gatefold Digipak with booklet and custom dust sleeve.

LP+ - 500 Copies only in the UK. 180 Gram White Vinyl in Gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.

LP - 180 Gram Vinyl in Gatefold jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.

Tape - 4-panel J card in clear box. No Download.

In Spades

Music GB

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