{"title":"Carson McHone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:#000000;\"\u003eThere is something almost excruciating about the places in between. The feeling of falling. A reassertion of gravity as one step leads to another but just before the foot lands. The purgatory between borders, before clarity becomes whole.  \u003cstrong\u003eCarson McHone\u003c\/strong\u003e’s music quivers like a tightrope, with songs about existing within such tension and surviving beyond the breaking point. She tells stories of sabotage, confusion, and surrender, a testament to the effort of reaching, sometimes flailing, for understanding and for balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"carson-mchone-still-life","title":"Carson McHone - Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/carson-mchone\"\u003eCarson McHone\u003c\/a\u003e’s third album and first release with Merge Records, quivers like a tightrope, with songs about existing within the tension of the in between and surviving beyond the breaking point. These are stories of sabotage, confusion, and surrender. The album is a testament to the effort of reaching, sometimes flailing, for understanding and for balance. \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e invites us to gasp at our own reflection and acknowledge the unsettling beauty in this breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:rgb(250,250,250);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);\"\u003eMcHone wrote the songs of \u003ci\u003eStill Life \u003c\/i\u003ein quiet moments between tours in her hometown of Austin, then recorded in Ontario with Canadian musician and producer Daniel Romano. \u003c\/span\u003eTogether in a home studio McHone and Romano cut almost the entire record themselves, calling on two friends, the versatile Mark Lalama on accordion, piano, and organ, and David Nardi with some savvy saxophone, to round it out. The phrasing and tones recall John Cale, The Kinks, Richard and Linda Thompson—like-minded artists of the late ’60s and early ’70s, another era of transition and innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Peak Vinyl (Purple)","offer_id":52739283222839,"sku":"MRG772lp-C1","price":22.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP (Black)","offer_id":52739283190071,"sku":"MRG772LP","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52996579066167,"sku":"MRG772CD","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739283124535,"sku":"MRG772digital","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/fa413b475019d5c7c6f1b7fc37ff8675efa363a8_55c67581a27efdeea244a6cacae7ce97aca26d22_medium_jpg_b1048360-c7ce-4eb9-b4c2-bfa61b2f7cb2.jpg?v=1789587642"},{"product_id":"carson-mchone-odes","title":"Carson McHone - ODES","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;\"\u003eCarson McHone’s first release since her Merge debut \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/carson-mchone-still-life\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;\"\u003e, the 4-song \u003ci\u003eODES\u003c\/i\u003e EP features covers of Margo Guryan, Conway Twitty, Arthur Russell, and the MC5. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739355541815,"sku":"MRG862DA","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/a7f03df12894335309d7274c40f2edff19ab789b_2a1abf8d4bc093558ce0536ae0136d6502bc1b9c_medium_jpeg.jpg?v=1785382636"},{"product_id":"carson-mchone-pentimento","title":"Carson McHone - Pentimento","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/carson-mchone\"\u003eCarson McHone\u003c\/a\u003e's \u003ci\u003ePentimento\u003c\/i\u003e is an audacious and rewarding record. It asks: How \u003ci\u003ecan\u003c\/i\u003e love and beauty exist in the presence of brutality? Disquietingly. Dissonantly. Against its shadow and bearing its mark. This is what McHone and her collaborators capture on \u003ci\u003ePentimento\u003c\/i\u003e with the subtlety of watercolor painting and the richness of verse, in ghost vocals and child voices alike. Every layer is a universe unto itself, revealing the pulse that animates McHone’s creative drive. 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