{"product_id":"superchunk-indoor-living","title":"Superchunk - Indoor Living","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, Merge released the newly remastered reissue of \u003cstrong\u003eSuperchunk\u003c\/strong\u003e’s out-of-print 1997 album \u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndoor Living\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe second in our 2014 series of reissues in celebration of our 25th anniversary, \u003ci\u003eIndoor Living\u003c\/i\u003e was released on CD and LP with new liner notes by Laura Ballance and producer\/engineer John Plymale. Both CD and LP include a download of the album and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/superchunk-clambakes-vol-8-we-d-like-to-thank-the-homecoming-committee-live-at-duke-1997\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eClambakes Vol. 8\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, a live concert recorded at Duke University in 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Marie Cox, who wrote the original \u003ci\u003eSPIN\u003c\/i\u003e review of the album, revisited the record for its reissue:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndoor Living\u003c\/i\u003e is about domestication: The taming and training of human beings to inhabit each others’ lives, during which a certain amount of blood is spilled. But anyone can write a break-up record, anyone can color in a broken heart all black. It takes a more sophisticated eye to find the light and perfect moments that happen even when we wish they didn’t, and \u003ci\u003eIndoor Living \u003c\/i\u003eis a scrapbook of those moments. A request for mercy comes across like an in-joke (“We both know that I’ve got bad knees”) in “Watery Hands.” “European Medicine” is a lively travelog that’s by turns amusingly fatalistic (“All our wine just froze, so much for your sunny coast”) and achingly needy (“Hold my hand steady while I write \/ Look over my shoulder all night”). Even “The Popular Music,” the record’s angriest slice of heartache, has a protagonist that can’t quite pull off a fully punk rock tantrum: “I’m smashing not washing the china you left me to use,” but “making mosaics of scenes from the parts of my life that you left me to lose.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAngst is easy, hope is hard. Thinking you’re going to die from a broken heart is easy, knowing you won’t is hard. Adulthood is about forsaking the black and white resolutions of youth for a more complicated, and resonant, resilience: From “Burn Last Sunday,” one of the saddest lines in indie rock: “The branches you thought you’d break \/ Well, they just bend.” In music and with people, maturity happens when the sharp edges and jangly rhythms of angst and outrage give over to fuller conversations. \u003ci\u003eIndoor Living \u003c\/i\u003eshows that you don’t have to lose a single joule of energy in becoming a little more self-reflective. You just have to be willing to take it all in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739187409207,"sku":"MRG129LP","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739187343671,"sku":"MRG129CD","price":15.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739187376439,"sku":"MRG129digital","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/acdd3b8a5a21565a4962300fcaae83c3eb79e63c_1f500c5977091227401b3e7fbae729a35d0a6174_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785380929","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/products\/superchunk-indoor-living","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}