Portugal. The Man: Woodstock 180g Vinyl LP. American Ghetto. Censored Colors.
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PORTUGAL. THE MAN - WOODSTOCK 180 GRAM VINYL LP.
Portugal. The Man's last album came out over three years ago – a long gap for a band who've dropped roughly an album a year since 2006. And in true, prolific band fashion, they've spent almost every minute since 2013 working on a new album. They created a shit-ton of individual songs, but as a whole, none of them hung together in a way that felt right. Then John Gourley, PTM's lead singer, made a trip home to Wasilla, Alaska and two things happened that completely changed the album's trajectory. First, John got some parental tough love from his old man. "What's taking so long to finish the album?" John's dad said. "Isn't that what bands do? Write songs and then put them out?" The whole thing started John thinking about why the band seemed to be stuck on a musical elliptical machine from hell and, more importantly, about how to get off of it. Second, fate stuck again when he found his dad's ticket stub from the original 1969 Woodstock music festival.
It seems like a small thing, but talking to his dad about Woodstock '69 knocked something loose in John's head. He realized that, in the same tradition of bands from that era, Portugal. The Man needed to speak out about the world crumbling around them. With these two ideas converging, the band made a seemingly bat-shit-crazy decision: they took all of the work they had done for the three years prior and they threw it out. It wasn't easy and there was the constant threat that the band's record label might have them killed, but the totally insane decision paid off. The band went back to the studio – working with John Hill (In The Mountain In The Cloud), Danger Mouse (Evil Friends), Mike D (Everything Cool), and longtime collaborator Casey Bates (their one consistent producer since the first record). In this new-found creative territory, the album that became Woodstock rolled out naturally from there. It's an album full of unbridled optimism and heart. "Feel It Still" is an anti-anthem about a clueless rebel wandering aimlessly through the world while "Rich Friend" and "Keep On" are a mid-album duo of songs about the tendency of the old and moneyed to leech off of the young and hungry. "So Young" lifts a lyric right out of "Live Forever" by major influence Oasis and the intense "Noise Pollution" reconciles the difference between what the modern world promised us and what we got.
TRACKLIST:
Number One
Easy Tiger
Live In The Moment
Feel It Still
Rich Friends
Keep On
So Young (feat. Fat Lip)
Mr. Lonely
Tidal Wave
Noise Pollution (feat. Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Zoe Mannville)
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