{"product_id":"vinyl-kate-vargas-golden-hour-in-the-house-of-lugosi-colored-vinyl-180-gram-vinyl-splatter","title":"Kate Vargas - Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi (Colored Vinyl, 180 Gram Vinyl, Splatter)","description":"On fifth album Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi, released March 4, Kate Vargas draws closer to the truth of her uniquely nuanced, jazz- and blues-inflected \"junkyard folk.\" Acclaimed by SPIN, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Billboard, and No Depression, she tints her\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emetaphoric storytelling and maverick, outlier Americana with maturing perspectives, folklore\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom her native New Mexico, and literature at large.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I've been thinking about what it means to be human,\" mulled Vargas, chatting from the San\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrancisco studio where she recorded Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi. \"I feel like I'm getting\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eaway from that with so much technology, screens, and related avoidance of certain feelings.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDusty, darkly romantic, and emotionally raw, Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi wraps Vargas'\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esignature gravelly melodies in rootsy acoustic instrumentation and quirky percussion, her voice\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eenhanced by the sublime harmonizing of The Reckless Daughters (Kate's sister Lizzy Vargas and Lena Kaminsky). At once confessionally intimate and sepia-toned cinematic, it's a quietly riotous album of deep grooves, smoldering moods, and wry worldliness, it's intrigue and curiosity\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eembroidered with Vargas' deft wordplay, palpable charisma and crisp, cultured phrasing.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA wide-eyed childhood in the charming New Mexico village of Corrales, rich in Mexican and\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSouthwestern oral tradition, still permeates Vargas' work, shaped by her Berklee music education and years of international touring. \"I was fortunate to grow up with a mother who, if we said we were bored, would say, 'well, go outside and pretend something',\" Vargas recalled. \"In a place like Corrales, with two paved roads and no stoplight, you can do that.\" Vargas' singular sound is rooted in open-hearted genre hopping; subtle, soulful sensuality; and a girlish yet textured, old-soul timbre in the tradition of Nina Simone and Eartha Kitt (once\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewonderfully described by The Deli Magazine as \"a favorite bourbon come to life\"). Keeping her\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003erecording process as live and spontaneous as possible while shunning production sheen keeps\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGolden Hour in the House of Lugosi late-night intimate, vivaciously visceral, and refreshingly\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eauthentic.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a band of longtime friends and collaborators, Vargas sought to revisit the stripped-down,\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003elargely acoustic spirit of her 2018 For The Wolfish \u0026amp; Wandering album, a few years wiser yet\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewith her resonant lyricism and playful smirk fully intact. Melding her perennial guiding stars\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimone, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, and Leonard Cohen to textured dive-bar vocals and irreverent\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eyet meticulously selected \"junkyard\" found-object percussion instruments lends Golden Hour in\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethe House of Lugosi a smoky yet hopeful aura all it's own. Equally of the head and the heart, it's\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eone of those rare records that manages to sound instinctive and cerebral all at once, it's ostensibly conversational narratives in fact delving deep into the human condition.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe album's title is a reference to actor Bela Lugosi being forever typecast as Dracula, and how\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewe can all fall into adhering to a character cast upon us by others, or even by ourselves, until life\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eshines just the right light - the \"golden hour\" of the title - for us to see a more authentic self.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Living can be kind of a slog, and especially right now can feel incredibly dark,\" Vargas offered.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Finding those bits of light when the sun comes in at just the right angle can make things look\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edifferent, hopeful, and you find a bit of joy in an unexpected moment.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReleased by Mother West, Golden Hour in the House of Lugosi is preceded by pairs of singles\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebeginning on March 5 with the huskily slinky \"Downtown\" and the imagined, organ-flecked\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efuture regrets of \"I Once was a Contender.\"","brand":"mysite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58369299415365,"sku":"MRWS025.1","price":5.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/8881\/6197\/files\/kate-vargas-music-vinyl-records-kate-vargas-golden-hour-in-the-house-of-lugosi-colored-vinyl-180-gram-vinyl-splatter-750958012722-mrws025-1-1160042551.jpg?v=1782315603","url":"https:\/\/midnightukvinyl.com\/products\/vinyl-kate-vargas-golden-hour-in-the-house-of-lugosi-colored-vinyl-180-gram-vinyl-splatter","provider":"MIDNIGHT GROOVE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}