Album Info Hide Show Artist: Shana Cleveland Album: Manzanita Released: USA, Canada & Europe, 2023 Tracklist: A1 A Ghost A2 Bloom A3 Faces In The Firelight A4 Mystic Mine A5 Light On The Water A6 Quick Winter Sun A7 Bonanza Freeze A8 Gold Tower B1 Babe B2 Ten Hour Drive Through West Coast Disaster B3 Evil Eye B4 Mayonnaise B5 Sheriff of the Salton Sea B6 Walking Through Morning Dew Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. You can also pick up your order in store, just select Local Pickup at the checkout. We also ship internationally – prices vary depending on weight and location. 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If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show LP – Limited Edition Maroon Vinyl (First pressing only). Second solo album by La Luz singer/guitarist Shana Cleveland. Manzanita is the common name for a kind of small evergreen tree endemic to California which has strong medicinal properties. Its also the name of the brand new full length by visual artist, writer, songwriter, and musician Shana Cleveland. Subtle, powerful, and unafraid. We cant actually tell you how much we love this record because youd never believe us, so well just say that it is her strongest and most personal album to date. These songs are as strong as the bricks in the Brill building, and seem destined to be covered by others in years to come. Where her previous record, 2019s Night of the Worm Moon (Hardly Art) functions as a collection of speculative fictions equally inspired by Afro-futurist pioneers Herman Sun Ra Blount and Octavia Butler, Manzanita concerns the love that loves to love. This is a supernatural love album set in the California wilderness, Cleveland explains. The combinations of words and song structure are so strong throughout that one hardly notices Clevelands nimble fingerpicking on first listen, or how much is packed into the arrangements. The lyrics are satisfyingly direct, with the buoyantly whimsical descriptions typical of the 1960s New York School of poetry. Its peppered with the kind of unexpected turns that make the words more modern, and in their spookiness they are more West Coast, as in Mystic Mine, with its Mystic Mine Lane, cars rotting away/ I feel so relieved to be/ Back in the country. So much of the pop music we love is propelled by those first blushes of infatuation and lust, but Manzanita concerns the kind of love that one can only experience with time, work, and devotion. Cleveland says: The songs were all written while I was pregnant (side A) or shortly after my son’s birth in that weird everything-has-quietly-but-monumentally-shifted state (side B), she says. Moving to the country, starting a family, laughing for real at the same joke the thirteenth time youve heard it, surviving heavy shit (this is the first release since Clevelands successful treatment for a diagnosis of breast cancer at the start of 2022). This is a love album thats somehow populated with the insect world, ghosts, and evil spirits. Sonically, Manzanita sits in a meadow similar to her previous solo records, set back and away from the genre-recombinant garage pop of her band La Luz. This is part due to the fact that theres a different sonic palette in use here. While Cleveland continues to play guitar and vocals; Johnny Goss, who has recorded all of Shanas solo material and early La Luz recordings, and Abbey Blackwell (Alvvays, La Luz) play the bass; Olie Eshleman is on pedal steel; and Will Sprott plays the keyboards, dulcimer, glockenspiel, and harpsichordlittle of which would have been out of place on her previous two solo recordsSprott also adds layers of synthesizer infused with the sounds of the natural world. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review