{"product_id":"pet-grief-20th-anniversary-edition-opaque-maroon-vinyl-dinked-edition-a-37","title":"Pet Grief (20th Anniversary Edition Opaque Maroon Vinyl DINKED EDITION A.37)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Radio Dept. have announced a twentieth-anniversary vinyl reissue of Pet Grief, their sophomore album and one of the most quietly\u003cbr\u003edistinctive records in their catalogue.\u003cbr\u003eOriginally released on 12 April 2006, Pet Grief emerged from a period of false starts and reinvention. The band had already recorded much of a\u003cbr\u003emore electronic album before deciding that it felt too close to what was happening around them at the time. They put most of it aside and began\u003cbr\u003eagain, bringing guitars back into the process and reconnecting with some of the melodic instincts behind Lesser Matters. But the result was not a\u003cbr\u003ereturn to Lesser Matters. Instead, Pet Grief became its cleaner, more restrained counterpart: twelve songs built from soft-focus synthesisers,\u003cbr\u003eprogrammed rhythms, piano, strings and guitars allowed to shimmer rather than overwhelm. What initially seemed like a very pop record later\u003cbr\u003erevealed itself as something calmer, mellower and sadder.\u003cbr\u003eAround the same time, music supervisor Brian Reitzell approached The Radio Dept. about contributing music to Sofia Coppola\u0026amp;#39;s Marie Antoinette.\u003cbr\u003eThe film ultimately featured three earlier Radio Dept. songs, while some of the unused music developed during that period found its way into Pet\u003cbr\u003eGrief.\u003cbr\u003ePet Grief was also a deliberate attempt to escape the language that had formed around The Radio Dept.\u0026amp;#39;s debut. Rather than repeat the\u003cbr\u003edistortion-heavy, reverb-soaked sound of Lesser Matters, Johan Duncanson and Martin Carlberg, credited at the time as Martin Larsson, looked\u003cbr\u003etowards a cleaner strain of 1980s pop, with Prefab Sprout, The Blue Nile and Pet Shop Boys among the reference points. Recorded and produced\u003cbr\u003eby the band themselves, Pet Grief remained rooted in the same fiercely independent idea that had guided them from the beginning: pop music\u003cbr\u003emade at home, without surrendering creative control. The title refers to the idea of grief as something one keeps close and tends to, almost like a\u003cbr\u003epet. Rather than a passing emotion to be overcome, it becomes a familiar companion and part of one\u0026amp;#39;s way of seeing the world.\u003cbr\u003eThat atmosphere is present before the record even begins. The cover photograph was taken by Johan Duncanson\u0026amp;#39;s father, Alan Duncanson, at\u003cbr\u003eSkånes Djurpark in southern Sweden in the mid-1980s. Rediscovered years later among his parents\u0026amp;#39; photographs, its kilts, cigarettes, children and\u003cbr\u003eslightly blurred distance became inseparable from the album\u0026amp;#39;s identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;quot;The songs on Pet Grief are easy to fall in love with.\u0026amp;quot;\u003cbr\u003ePITCHFORK\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;quot;Amid all the darkness, shines a bright light.\u0026amp;quot;\u003cbr\u003eNME\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;quot;A sublime piece of work.\u0026amp;quot;\u003cbr\u003eIT\u0026amp;#39;S A TRAP!\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;quot;Touring after Pet Grief was quite boring actually.\u0026amp;quot;\u003cbr\u003eJOHAN DUNCANSON\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e● Opaque maroon vinyl*\u003cbr\u003e● Fold out poster (60 x 46 cm)*\u003cbr\u003e● Band logo bumper sticker*\u003cbr\u003e● Obi strip \u0026amp;amp; gold foil sticker*\u003cbr\u003e● Gatefold packaging\u003cbr\u003e● Limited machine numbered pressing 500*\u003cbr\u003e*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRETLY","offers":[{"title":"20th Anniversary Edition Opaque Maroon Vinyl DINKED EDITION A.37","offer_id":58570542547327,"sku":"BSR-08655","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/4402\/5509\/files\/Pet_Grief_20th_Anniversary_Edition_Opaque_Maroon_Vinyl_DINKED_EDITION_A.37_p1_15905581302143_58509811712383.jpg?v=1790647445","url":"https:\/\/bendingsound.co.uk\/products\/pet-grief-20th-anniversary-edition-opaque-maroon-vinyl-dinked-edition-a-37","provider":"Bending Sound","version":"1.0","type":"link"}