Judah and the Lion - Pep Talks (2019) and similar items

Catalog Number: 1822919890 Condition Details: Yellow Colored Vinyl. HYPE-STICKER on front. Limited Edition. Double LP. Unopened/new vinyl, factory sealed, and in excellent condition. A few creases near edges. Made in the USA sticker near bottom-right on back. Mild-wear along spine. Little shelf-wear along bottom-edge. Some wear to corners.Edition (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Pep Talk Quarter-Life Crisis Why Did You Run? i'm ok. pictures (feat. Kacey Musgraves) Over my head Queen Songs / human. Don't Mess With My Mama 7000x Alright (frick it!) GoofBallerz JOYBOY Passion Fashion (feat. Jon Bellion) Dance With Ya Family / Best Is Yet To Come sportz 17 About The Record: Pep Talks, by Judah and the Lion, they continue to explore the boundaries laid out on their self-descriptive 2016 breakout, Folk Hop n' Roll. Led by singer/guitarist Judah Akers along with mandolinist Brian Macdonald and banjo player Nate Zuercher, the band emerged out of Belmont University's folk scene in 2012, briefly positioning themselves as a worship band before turning to a particularly vibrant secular approach that mixed soaring indie folk, bluegrass, pop, electronica, and hip-hop. Their sense of uplift and defiance has remained a throughline in each of their releases and is the guiding focus of 2019's Pep Talks. In general, subtlety takes a back seat with Judah and his crew, who hit nearly every track hard with a combination of rafter-rattling folk choruses, pounding pop rhythms, emo-tinged raps, digital flourishes, and an unwaveringly earnest tone that colors each overripe genre they manage to cram into a single track. More emotionally vulnerable, yet even less cohesive than prior outings, at 17 tracks Pep Talks is a well-meaning but burdensome set. It reached No. 18 on the US Billboard 200 chart and No. 3 on the US Alt chart.