THE MEN – New York City – LP – 180g White Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition180g White Vinyl with Printed Inner.

“When everyone left NYC, the sewer opened and we crawled out. Prolific Brooklyn institution The Men return with their ninth studio album, New York City. Arriving following 2020s Mercy, the new LP on the groups new label home Fuzz Club Records and marks a return to the more scuzzy and abrasive rock ploughed over their decade and a half spent coursing through the grimy sewers of NYC. Here, nocturnal proto-punk meets a timeless, all-guns-blazing rocknroll gusto.

That the album leans into a more primitive, back-to-basics sound owes largely to the way in which was forged, an earlier version of the record scrapped in favour of four people playing in a room together. The New York City album was revised, reorganized and shaped until it became clear that things fall into place like the hammer driving the nail or the scythe’s swipe through the tall grass. The end result is a series of cuts played live and recorded to 2″ tape in Travis Harrisons (Guided By Voices, Built To Spill) Brooklyn studio.

New York City is a record that doesnt stop moving for a second, packed full of the kind of energy you can only really capture in a live setting. These songs became the blood of the band as the band could only exist for and of these songs. There was no place else to hang their hats. Without making this record, the group would not exist, so there really wasn’t another option. NYC is fluid. It means a lot of different things to all kinds of people. We present the record in that spirit.

Tracklist:

1. Hard Livin’
2. Peace of Mind
3. Echo
4. God Bless The USA
5. Eye
6. Eternal Recurrence
7. Round The Corner
8. Through The Night
9. Anyway I Find You
10. River Flows