Deeper - Careful (Loser Edition Colored Vinyl)

Deeper - Careful (Loser Edition Colored Vinyl)You cant get Deeper if youre standing still. Thats intentional, says the Chicago quartets Nic Gohl. Does it feel good when youre listening to this song? Does your body want to move with it? These are the questions he asked himself as he and bandmates Shiraz Bhatti, Drew McBride, and Kevin Fairbairn were writing and recording Careful!, their third record and Sub Pop debut. I wanted these to be interesting songs, but in a way where a two year old would

and discerning a“frosting of sweetness”

The room we set up in is the room where Percy Sledge sang “When a Man Loves a Woman” and where Aretha Franklin recorded “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)

and the album was so inventive and influential

Flirting with prog

analogue stabs

sheltering in place

indie-pop and classic R&B

this marked the first time the duo completely stepped away from the more abstract sound pieces of earlier albums and engaged with the more symphonic and compositional approach that has become the forte of their more recent recordings

when they released their debut album

This is not to say their idiosyncratic songwriting style & vocalizing is not present in spades but expanded

From the manifestation spell for their now-apartment that’s included in the first verse of “mister g

rocking and reflective aided by the apples in stereo's robert schneider and folks from the gerbils