{"product_id":"friendship-caveman-wakes-up","title":"Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:#000000;\"\u003eAn album for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On \u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaveman Wakes Up\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFriendship\u003c\/strong\u003e’s second album for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement and was fronted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a dream, \u003ci\u003eCaveman Wakes Up \u003c\/i\u003ebelongs equally to the conscious and subconscious mind, fraught with background, steeped in reference and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated, above all, to music’s creative soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP (Black)","offer_id":52739415736631,"sku":"MRG861LP","price":25.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739415703863,"sku":"MRG861CD","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739415671095,"sku":"MRG861digital","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/63b23beb871a349b0ddc9ba3ff3b2eda134802b1_b532ee95ea41444bb9ac0817524b2df2109aec7d_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785382768","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/products\/friendship-caveman-wakes-up","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}