{"product_id":"2322708","title":"Isobel Campbell - Bow To Love [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\u003eWe take every step to ensure your vinyl purchase is delivered to you in the same pristine condition as when it leaves our packing area. We have selected very robust 12 inch mailers in order to protect your valuable vinyl throughout its journey to your doorstep. Even when handled incorrectly, your item should still arrive in tip-top condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsobel Campbell is no stranger to navigating turmoil. On her previous album, There Is No\u003cbr\u003eOther (2020), she re-emerged after a decade of label trouble with a gem of subtly\u003cbr\u003equesting psychedelic folk. Four years on, Campbell spreads her net wider on Bow to\u003cbr\u003eLove, a soft-spun yet sharp-edged set of reflections on modern crises that doesn't stop at\u003cbr\u003ediagnosing the problems: it goes further to ask how we might progress from our tense,\u003cbr\u003econflicted times.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith all the dexterity the Glasgow-born singer-songwriter and cellist is known for, the\u003cbr\u003eresult is an album of lambent surfaces and choppy riptides, a deeply personal record for\u003cbr\u003etoday poised between hope and despair. 'The album is about what we're all in right\u003cbr\u003enow, and my response to that and my life as a microcosm within that,' says Campbell,\u003cbr\u003ebefore suggesting how exposing modern horrors might prove purgative. 'I think there's\u003cbr\u003ea quote from A Course In Miracles which says, 'Love brings up everything unlike itself\u003cbr\u003efor the purpose of healing and release.' Maybe these horrible things are coming up and\u003cbr\u003eout so we can get rid of them and things can be better.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer radar keenly attuned to inequities, Campbell spotlights toxic masculinity on the\u003cbr\u003eluminous 'Everything Falls Apart,' it's circling lilt and warm, fretless bass framing a call\u003cbr\u003eto unmask patriarchal power in readiness for 'a brand new start'. 'My elegy to the\u003cbr\u003epatriarchy' is how Campbell pitches it, noting how 'even the words we use to insult a\u003cbr\u003esubstandard man will often blame the woman - 'son of a bitch', 'bastard'.' The\u003cbr\u003espellbinding psych-folk of 'Spider to the Fly' and 'Second Guessing' add themes of\u003cbr\u003e'narcissistic abuse' and 'repetition compulsion', lending bite to the album's take on\u003cbr\u003erelationships.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSome songs were first conceptualised in 2016, when Brexit and Trump exacerbated\u003cbr\u003ewhat Campbell describes as 'real tension' amongst people. Between its gently jazzy\u003cbr\u003eshuffle and cushioning arrangement, the Yoda-esque 'Do Or Die' foregrounds fortitude\u003cbr\u003ein the face of gnawing anxieties. The rainy-day soul-pop of 'Keep Calm Carry On'\u003cbr\u003ealso started in 2016, when Campbell was staying at her aunt's flat in Yoker and her then-\u003cbr\u003ehusband and collaborator Chris Szczech texted her from New York about the Brexit vote.\u003cbr\u003e'Chris was saying, 'It looks like it's going to happen' but I was like, 'No way.' And actually\u003cbr\u003e- 'way'. It did happen.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTechnology is touched on with first single '4316', an almost robo-folk-pop challenge to\u003cbr\u003ethe idea of the 'transhuman': the idea that technology might sire a new stage in human\u003cbr\u003eevolution. Favouring 'honest, decent communication' over AI, Campbell takes a dim\u003cbr\u003eview of our 'friend, unfriend, block, unblock' culture. 'I know what I love and it ain't\u003cbr\u003ethat,' she says. 'I was talking to an Uber driver the other day and I said, 'I don't want to\u003cbr\u003ebe living in a video game.' And he said, 'Well, we are.' I feel like I'm offering a human\u003cbr\u003eelement in these transhuman days of artificial intelligence.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe looping sing-song swing of the title track appl","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54491360985473,"sku":"2322708","price":21.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51hXNlS46sL_88611464-5109-4e82-8d4d-d4f1c6eb459d.jpg?v=1752983555","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2322708","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}