John Murry - The Graceless Age (CD & Vinyl)

Released in 2013.

Physical format available - CD & Vinyl 

Vinyl! 

Released briefly on vinyl on a tiny US label in 2013, a 60 minute album squeezed onto one piece of plastic, it is very, very hard to find and typically sells for $60 on Discogs when copies come onto the market. This edition is a new half-speed master cut from the original source by John Webber at Air Studios in London with the album spread across four sides of 140g golden-Colored Vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve reflecting the original CD artwork with a Spot UV finish and a double-sided lyric insert.

Tracklist: 

The Ballad of the Pyjama Kid 
California
Little Colored Balloons 
Photograph
Things We Lost in the Fire 
¿no te da ganas de reir, señor malverde?
Southern Sky
If I'm to Blame 
Penny Nails
Thorn Tree in the Garden

ONE OF THE BEST RECEIVED ALBUMS OF THE YEAR.

“I don't expect to hear a better record this year” ***** Michael Hann, The Guardian, May 2013

# 10 in Mojo Magazine's Top 50 albums of 2013

“Ink-black gothic country-gospel, formidable stuff” ***** Andy Fyfe, Mojo, May

“An instant classic” 9/10 Nigel Williamson, Uncut, May 2013

“Intensely beautiful... Like Father John Misty, Mark Lanegan and Josh T

Pearson rolled into one really broken dream” - **** Q magazine.

“The Graceless Age... is a compellingly honest, deeply emotional singer-songwriter classic.” - Will Hodgkinson, The Times

“Occasionally, an album comes out of nowhere that completely blows your mind. Like this one” - ***** Simon Cosyns, The Sun.

“A genuine American masterpiece” - ***** Martin Dowsing, R2 magazine.

“Americana’s toughest new star” - Allan Jones, Uncut live review, March 2013

“The new sound of weird America” - NME

“A record that will undoubtedly come to be seen as one of the year’s most

stunning and wrenching breakthroughs” - Ed Power, Hot Press

“Fearlessly exposes his dark past through songs that are powerful and

healing. A remarkable album” Lee Edwards, Electric Ghost.

“A densely textured record that rewards immersion” - 7/10 David Cowling, Americana UK

“A true classic in every way. Album of the year, without a doubt” - Martyn Coppack, Echoes And Dust

“A triumph in the face of adversity” - **** Paul Hinkley Smith, American Roots

“His future as a songwriter and artist of major stature and authority is right now”- 4.5/5 Jim Beviglia, American Songwriter Magazine

“A harrowing yet somehow strangely beautiful album. A masterful debut” - The Frontline Music

“This is not an easy record, but it’s one Murry had to make and holds the characteristics of stark inevitability. this is the sound of a souls purged” - 4.5/5 Twang Nation

“Right now it feels like a landmark album, a bold and brutal exposition of a side of life we do our best to sidestep on a daily basis” - **** Paul Page, Entertainment.ie

“The Graceless Age is a fully realized achievement that, for a debut, out of nowhere, is one of those truly remarkable things that happens so rarely that when it does, the word must be spread” - 9/10 Brian Miller, Vivoscene