{"product_id":"widowspeak-expect-the-best-lp","title":"Widowspeak - Expect The Best LP","description":"\u003cspan\u003eSeven years in, Widowspeak remain purveyors of mood. Existing in a sonic overlap of indie rock, dream pop, downtrodden shoegaze, slow-core and invented \"cowboy grunge\", Widowspeak use familiar aesthetics as a narrative device, a purposeful nostalgic backdrop for songs that ask, \"How did we get here?\" Expect the Best, their fourth for Brooklyn's Captured Tracks, sees Widowspeak finding balance between opposing forces: darkness \/ light, quiet \/ loud, tension \/ calm. Moving around -- specifically the move back to the place where Hamilton grew up -- was the catalyst for a record concerned with self-examination and the sense of dread that comes from feeling adrift (\"Dog\"). Whether navigating anxieties in the digital age (\"Expect the Best\"), struggling for motivation (\"When I Tried\") or critiquing wanderlust and aspiration (\"The Dream\"), the songs here recognize you can't go back in time. The band navigates dynamic changes with subtlety and restraint; the nine tracks brim with both wide-eyed optimism and resigned melancholy. Their usual palette of dusty guitars and angular twang are still front and center, but now with a 90s homage, even if abstractly. It's perhaps their heaviest record to date, but never loses the sense of intimacy Widowspeak is known for. \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Captured Tracks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53144153522456,"sku":"dfr1793800414754","price":14.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0998\/5189\/5064\/files\/widowspeak---expect-the-best-lp_1.jpg?v=1793800421","url":"https:\/\/plaidseamwear.shop\/products\/widowspeak-expect-the-best-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}