Judah and the Lion - Pep Talks (2019) [SEALED] 2-LP Limited Edition Yellow Vinyl

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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. (Not a cut-out.)

Tracks:

1. Pep Talk
2. Quarter-Life Crisis
3. Why Did You Run?
4. i'm ok.
5. pictures (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
6. Over my head
7. Queen Songs / human.
8. Don't Mess With My Mama
9. 7000x
10. Alright (frick it!)
11. GoofBallerz
12. JOYBOY
13. Passion Fashion (feat. Jon Bellion)
14. Dance With Ya
15. Family / Best Is Yet To Come
16. sportz
17. 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.