Our featured album this week is Brooklyn-based Small Black sophomore album 'Limits of Desire', out on May 14 via Jagjaguwar.
Recorded, mixed, and self-produced over the last year at both a house in Delaware and the Brooklyn abode of members Juan Pieczanski and Jeff Curtin, Limits of Desire is a crystalline realization of a sound Small Black have been building toward since their self-titled EP in 2009.
Where their 2010's debut album 'New Chain' was a lesson in maximalist pop, Limits of Desire finds the band trimming their sound to the essentials, yet hitting new and unexpected heights with the addition of live drums, electric guitar and trumpet to the existing Small Black palette.
In a recent interview speaking about the changes in this new album, frontman Josh Hayden Kolenik explained: "New Chain was hyper-layered collage-y by design and as an artist you always want to fight against what you did last...as you get a little older and more learned in your craft, you want to show everything and not hide behind multiple vocal takes or any sort of haze."
'Limits of Desire' is with no doubt another kool album full of catchy summer anthems!
Tracklist:
02. Canoe
03. No Stranger
04. Sophie
06. Breathless
07. Proper Spirit
08. Only A Shadow
09. Limits Of Desire
10. Shook Loves
11. Outskirts
You can buy your copy of 'Limits of Desire' on iTunes.
