VAN PELT, THE
ARTISANS & MERCHANTS (LA CASTANYA)
First new studio LP in a quarter of a century. Recorded by Jeff Zeigler (The War on Drugs, Kurt Vile), guest appearances by Nate Kinsella and Ted Leo among others.
This band, and this album, function as critical missing links that takes one from The Fall to Yard Act, from Television and The Minutemen to Parquet Courts and Sleaford Mods, from punk as a sound to punk purely as an ethos.
While any Van Pelt album is a stand alone album, the unique approach they take begs one to enter their world and dig deep in.