{"product_id":"1169591","title":"Elle Belle - No Signal [VINYL]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePappas talent is so far-reaching it's nothing short of staggering. The writing and instrumentation are always expertly done and the singing makes most contemporary artists look like amateurs.  - Peter Jesperson (Twin-Tone founder) The brilliance of the songs on Elle Belle's No Signal is that each one is evocative of a multitude of 80's and 90's artists from Prince to Bruce Springsteen without ever succumbing to nostalgia in any way shape or form. Rather, by creating a breakup album about the disintegration of his relationship with America and its politics, songwriter Christopher Pappas has done something entirely new. Elle Belle has given us a collection of American anthems as beautiful as anything on Thunder Road, but with melodies and lyrics that are completely fresh and exciting. After the election I was pretty depressed recalls Pappas. Like most sane people, the 2016 election left him shellshocked. He spent that winter in NH, where he grew up, going over what went wrong. I started writing during that time and what came out felt like a break up song. That first song, which later became the titular track No Signal, acts as the thesis for the record and paints a dreary picture of two people growing apart: You and I on hard times \/ all around a slow divide \/ and there's no signal. The result is an album with a story that at times can feel cinematic - even the cover art - an incredibly close-up photo of a man (not Pappas) with nothing but a static T.V. in the background pangs of loneliness and looks like a still from a movie. I wouldn't call it a concept record, as that idea has particular baggage, but the songs do share a singular vision and narrative. Isolation. A great divide. No signal in, no signal out. No signal is a vibrant and evocative portrait of a bleak American landscape by one of the best undiscovered composers of our time.","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55132667249025,"sku":"1169591","price":22.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41HHcIlipxL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767011090","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/1169591","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}