Name: Foreign Affairs
Brand: Connections

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

tim132cd

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-06-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0630125983317

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

tim132lpc1

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Extended format: Yes

Limited Red Vinyl - No Download.

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0630125983331

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Connections

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Trouble In Mind

For fans of Sebadoh, Guided By Voices, The Men, Mike Krol and The Replacements. Fifth album from the beloved Columbus, OH band and first for Trouble in Mind, after four albums on Columbus label Anyway Records. Features former members of 84 Nash. Since 2013, Columbus, Ohio's Connections have made four near perfect albums of lo-fi pop majesty for the seminal Midwest label Anyway Records, and Foreign Affairs - their latest album (and first for Trouble In Mind), continues that winning streak with fifteen songs packed with sardonic tunefulness and Buckeye bombast, firmly planting them in the canon of the Ohio Sound. Connections sprung forth from the ashes of Nineties pop band 84 Nash, infamous for being the only non-GBV related band released on Robert Pollard's own Rockathon Records and comparisons to the Indie Rock underdogs seem inevitable, if not a little shortsighted. Connections' brand of indie rock definitely has one foot in The Nineties but maintains a classicist's penchant for nuanced and timeless rock'n'roll. Many songs use classic pop structures (see Love Me Still"s quiet / loud / quiet power ballad-isms) but subvert them with a clever melodic twist, a bonkers twin guitar solo or unexpected synth squiggle underneath. These guys have done their homework, but nothing feels studied - they've drunk from the waters of the Ohio Underground and the tunes flow forth naturally, with nods to their Nineties brethren (GBV, Breeders, Gaunt) as well as idiosyncratic Midwest legends like Mike Rep and The Quotas or Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments.

LP+ - Limited Red Vinyl - No Download.

Foreign Affairs

Music GB