{"product_id":"crooked-fingers-red-devil-dawn","title":"Crooked Fingers - Red Devil Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn vinyl for the first time ever in honor of its 15th anniversary. Both editions feature new cover art and a full-color inner sleeve with lyrics. They also include downloads of the album and the bonus 12-song \u003ci\u003eRed Devil Dawn Demos.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pressed on black vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeak Vinyl:\u003c\/strong\u003e Limited-edition pressing on red vinyl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e+++\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLove songs abound on 2003’s \u003ci\u003eRed Devil Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, but most of the love is dead or dying or at least dirty. That makes sense: Just a few years after his split with indie stalwarts \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/archers-of-loaf\"\u003eArchers of Loaf\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/eric-bachmann\"\u003eEric Bachmann\u003c\/a\u003e had forcefully forged a new identity and sound with \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/crooked-fingers\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrooked Fingers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and he quickly amassed a catalog of gorgeous, poetic songs about weary losers and broken lives. This is the album that gave their desperation its most pointed, perfectly detailed homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Devil Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e was the third Crooked Fingers album inside of four years, and in hindsight, it feels like both the pinnacle and the end of Crooked Fingers Phase One. Bachmann had perfected the art of darkness, of finding his characters and stories in solitude and then adding or subtracting sounds and players to make them come alive. Never had they seemed more personal or more vulnerable than on \u003ci\u003eRed Devil Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, from the ornery argument on “You Threw a Spark” to the heartbreaking album closer “Carrion Doves,” which posits that “what can make us one can make us come undone.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the album also nudges open the door to where Bachmann would take Crooked Fingers next. “Sweet Marie” adds jaunty horns to a withering-but-somehow-sweet story about infidelity. And elsewhere, there’s more hope in the darkness than ever, though it can be hard to recognize at first. But at the end of “Disappear,” he sums up both Crooked Fingers’ past and its future: “There’s beauty in an ugly thing, redemption in demise.” That’s \u003ci\u003eRed Devil Dawn \u003c\/i\u003ewrit small and simple: It finds the specks of light in the darkest rooms, and spins the whole picture into a gorgeous whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: CD option is the original 2003 edition of the album, and does not contain bonus \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRed Devil Dawn Demos \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eor new album art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739214246199,"sku":"MRG222LP","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739214278967,"sku":"MRG222CD","price":13.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739214213431,"sku":"MRG222DA","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/87e15119e4f235e8faaf1ff6bcc49a33229a643d_bf58898468f3ddcb5cd22529f97768b26b378c69_medium_jpg_c1e7c003-7143-40d9-b1cc-4f3c3e580c13.jpg?v=1789600414","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/products\/crooked-fingers-red-devil-dawn","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}