Black Pumas (2 LP/7" Single Deluxe Edition)
Regular price $36.00 Save $-36.00Deluxe Edition Colored Vinyl 2LP+7"-Set with Original Album Plus 11 Bonus Tracks including 3 New Songs, 4 Covers and Unreleased Live Material!
Black Pumas is led by the creative partnership between Grammy Award-winning guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada and songwriter Eric Burton. The latter is a relative newcomer who arrived in Austin in 2015 after busking his way across the country from Los Angeles, while Quesada has a storied reputation for playing in bands like Grupo Fantasma and Brownout. After the two connected via friends in the Austin scene, they began to collaborate on a new sound that transmutes soul into something idiosyncratically modern.
Reminiscent of Ghostface Killah and Motown in equal measure, this original sound ensured that Black Pumas' weekly residency at C-Boys quickly became "the hottest party in town" (Austin-American Statesman). Produced by Quesada in his home studio and colored by Burton's dark imagery and haunting vocals, their Grammy-nominated eponymous 2019 debut is equally as indebted to East Coast hip-hop as it is to classic funk and soul, resulting in a project that is of the moment rather than retro. From the roiling, solar eclipse-inspired noir of "Black Moon Rising" to the ponderous yet epic "Oct 33," it's a stunner.
This Deluxe Edition reissue of their debut features the original album plus eleven bonus tracks, three new original songs and four covers, plus unreleased live material. The colored vinyl 2LP-set comes complete with a bonus 7" single, new artwork and unpublished studio and live photographs.
Tracks
LP1
- Black Moon Rising
- Colors
- Know You Better
- Fire
- OCT 33
- Stay Gold
- Old Man
- Confines
- Touch The Sky
- Sweet Conversations
LP2
- Fast Car
- I'm Ready
- Red Rover
- Black Cat
- Politicians In My Eyes
- Colors (Live In Studio)
- OCT 33 (Live In Studio)
- Confines (Live In Studio)
- Know You Better (Live At C-Boys)
Bonus 7" Single
- Eleanor Rigby
- Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City