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Today's Shelf Pull: American Aquarium, Moonlight With Its Sleeves Rolled Up
American Aquarium are on the shelf today with Things Change: a 2018 LP where Americana rock, grown-up trouble and a row of moons all keep steady time.
Some records arrive promising a new start and you can nearly hear the brochure being folded.
Things Change arrives with dust on its boots, a kettle half boiled, and the expression of someone who knows a new start still has to take out the bins.
American Aquarium are on the shelf today, and the sleeve is already doing useful work. A rough brown border, a deep black square, a row of moons across the middle, the band name up top and Things Change down below, written as if neat handwriting might be too smug for the job. It is simple, but not thin. The cover looks like a night sky made by someone who has handled cardboard, bad news and strong coffee.
The catalogue facts are tidy: Things Change, LP, 2018, Rock shelf, available from Kilmorna at EUR34.
On the shelf today
American Aquarium - Things Change
LP / Rock / 2018
EUR34 / Available now
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