{"title":"Citizen","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"citizen-as-you-please-neon-orange-blue-twister-color-vinyl-lp","title":"Citizen - As You Please - Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e Citizen's As You Please reports from ground zero of an epidemic. Two years removed from their previous Run For Cover LP, Everybody Is Going To Heaven, Citizen's perspective is far less sublime. As You Please is a confrontational record, incapable of turning a blind eye toward the inescapable strife. And so, songwriter Mat Kerekes pursues the source of discontent that is ravaging his Rust Belt city of Toledo, Ohio with the band's most dynamic record to date.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn As You Please the epidemic is bigger than addiction and overdoses. There is no longer a Dream to be pursued for the friends and family surrounding Citizen. The band explores that absence and the misguided ways in which it gets filled. On opener \"Jet\" the kids move slow and there's a stranger living in the narrator's home. \"In The Middle Of It All\" might be Citizen at their most hopeful, but it also reads as agonizing expression of the ruin in the Heartland. As You Please also showcases the growing versatility of a band seven years deep and still restless. Citizen has churned and ground out their own unique foothold within the greater context of alternative rock. Written over the course of a year, the record is devoid of the brutish and sinister elements found on Everybody Is Going To Heaven. Here, Citizen go beyond their early grunge contrasts and strive for something benevolent. There's a spiritual core to the record that manifests in subtle ways like the ethereal vocals echoing in the breakdown of \"Control,\" the droning organs on \"You Are A Star\" or the almost operatic refrain on \"In The Middle Of It All.\" The finespun ways in which Citizen has written this record mark a cataclysmic breakthrough for the band. There is damage and disarray in the band member's lives, but within this record all the pieces have been restored in an ornate arrangement befitting a stained glass mosaic. In the end, As You Please tries to give strength to those in need. There are illicit factors that control, but Citizen has written a guiding light of an album out of the debris. It concludes with \"You Are A Star\" and \"Flowerchild;\" one an unstable request of confidence set to soaring progressions, the other a blistering finale that subverts expectation. As You Please might read as meek, but it represents Citizen in it's most confident and expansive state.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracks\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Jet\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2 In the Middle of It All\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 As You Please\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4 Medicine\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 Ugly Luck\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 World\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 Fever Days\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 Control\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 Discrete Routine\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10 I Forgive No One\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11 You Are a Star\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e12 Flowerchild\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secretly","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42327397073125,"sku":"Modern Rock\/Pop\/Folk","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/2631\/9535\/products\/4036357-2771250.jpg?v=1641509412"},{"product_id":"citizen-everybody-is-going-to-heaven-eco-mix-vinyl-lp","title":"Citizen -  Everybody Is Going To Heaven - Eco Mix Vinyl LP","description":"DESCRIPTION\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEco Mix Vinyl Almost two years to the date of the release of their breakthrough album, Citizen return with their highly anticipated follow-up full-length, Everybody is Going to Heaven. Haunting these ten songs is a foreboding, dark atmosphere masterfully crafted by producer Will Yip, and an immediate, intense energy is palpable from even the first grimy seconds of the opener, \"Cement.\" As with every one of Citizen's releases, Mat Kerekes' signature vocal delivery here is a trademark feature, demonstrating the emotional tension that boils over on this release. As cathartic as ever, he duels between a soft croon and a haunting scream, confronting his demons on tracks like \"Stain\" echoing the tormented refrain, \"my heart still beats for nothing\". And while most of the record is an intense and noisy onslaught, songs like \"Heaviside\" and \"Yellow Love\" act as armistices, each aching in reverb-drenched consonance. Everybody is Going to Heaven is a turning point for Citizen: once regarded as newcomers with undeniable potential, the band shows here that they have matured both abruptly and uniquely, with no end to their upward trajectory in sight.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTracks\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1 Cement\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2 Dive Into My Sun\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3 Numb Yourself\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4 Heaviside\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5 My Favorite Color\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 Weave Me (Into Yr Sin)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7 Stain\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8 Ten\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9 Yellow Love\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10 Ring of Chain","brand":"AENT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42327449141477,"sku":"","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/2631\/9535\/products\/4036358-2771251.jpg?v=1641510767"}],"url":"https:\/\/freshproducerecords.com\/collections\/citizen.oembed","provider":"Fresh Produce Records Macon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}