Richard Edwards Two Sad Little Islands Drift Together, Two Lonely Little Monkeys Find A Tree (Rare and Unreleased) 2015-2023 Vinyl LP Boxset Orange Creamsicle Splatter Colour 2023

Boxset

Tracklist:

1. Benzedrine
2. Pink Lightning
3. Beautiful Boy
4. Knees
5. Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'
6. Jane Greer With A Gun
7. Monkey
8. Git Paid
9. In Some Dreams
10. Drinkin' 'Bout You
11. None Of Us Became Anything
12. Bacall
13. January
14. Sit N Squirm
15. Howlin' Heart
16. Ketamine
17. With Half Your Heart
18. True Love Waits
19. Lil Dead Eye-d
20. Gene
21. Love
22. Inchyra Blue
23. The Beach
24. Pineapple
25. Sister Wives
26. Everytime
27. Sandra's Stuff
28. Postcard
29. Further 2 Fall
30. Disappeared Planets
31. Estonia

Richard Edwards is in the pocket - He's been there for several albums now: 2017's Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset, 2020's The Soft Ache & the Moon, and 2022's Ghost Electricity/Vampire Draw - Just as the Margot records defined his twenties, this "Beach Bum" era, as he calls it, may well define his thirties - That era is expanded in Two Sad Little Islands Drift Together, Two Lonely Little Monkeys Find A Tree: Rare and Unreleased 2015-2023. Beginning with Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset, Richard has been steering his ongoing body of work toward capturing a feeling of being at sea. Life can find us at sea in any number of ways–in a marriage or partnership, or in longing for one; in parenting, and its ceaseless wonders and worries; in bodies and minds that confound understanding (whether just our own, or also that of professionals); in our rotting world, which we've fucked up beyond all repair.

"What does that sound like, though?" you may ask. Like Mike Bloom's cascading fingerpicking in "Lil Dead Eye-d (b.)," or the tranquilizing combination of Dave Palmer's piano and Perla Batalla's multi-tracked vocals on "Love (b.)" Like the L.A. based Section Quartet on "True Love Waits," or the triumphantly stoned Velvet Ocean jam-session that is "Jane Greer With A Gun." Like Richard's use of melody and imagery on "Pink Lightning (b.)" and lead single "Benzedrine," where he is masterfully accompanied by Erin Rae (on the former) and Maria Taylor (on the latter).

Unlike Richard's past archival releases which have often featured home demo recordings, everything on Two Sad Little Islands has been produced in-studio. With this 3-LP vinyl set, Richard presents just over two hours of material that once again makes his case as one of the "most underrated songwriter[s] of our time" (LA Review of Books).