{"product_id":"save-as-crystal-clear-vinyl-lp","title":"Save As: Crystal Clear Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is no grand, overarching storyline to Save As, the second solo album from Elena Tonra’s Ex:Re project. Rather, the album – produced by Fabian Prynn and also featuring Josephine Stephenson on cello, Hinako Omori on synthesisers, Ben Reed on bass and Jethro Fox on electric guitar – is the latest in the Daughter lead singer’s catalogue of expert chronicles of the gnawing minutiae of human consciousness: the over-thinking that consumes us, and the places we travel to escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe title of album opener “Radio Station”, which begins with stately strummed acoustic guitar and morphs into a trippy song about an endless California roadtrip, is a metaphor for how Tonra feels about her mind. “I end up getting stuck because I can’t make decisions,” she says. Demo recordings live on in many of the final cuts, as on “Sleep”, which Tonra first recorded in a hotel room in Paris. The final version features a melodic loop made from the demo’s acoustic guitar run through a vocoder and a drum machine, which together offer a muffled quality to the sound, like hearing a party through a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther tracks, such as the stand-out “Am I Even Real?”, a Tonra-Prynn duet on which Tonra sings about spaceships to ask whether she is being true to herself in a relationship, found their true version in the studio. That combination of long-held ideas stored in notebooks and on laptops with unfiltered first thoughts and improvisations is key to the album’s perfect mingling of liveliness and deep thoughtfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklisting: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Radio Station \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Sleep \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Am I Even Real? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Two Chords \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Save As \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Frozen Aisle \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Wasp \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Language of Love \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 .Healing (Slow) \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex:Re","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679274529048,"sku":"4AD944LPE","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4297\/9608\/files\/Ex_Re_SaveAs_1x1_MASTER_LP_28front_29_CrystalClear_cream.jpg?v=1789397648","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.co.uk\/products\/save-as-crystal-clear-vinyl-lp","provider":"Recordstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}