The Men - New York City (Repress, Clear Vinyl)

180g ultra-clear vinyl, standard sleeve, printed inner-sleeve,
download card included. "When everyone left NYC, the sewer opened and we crawled out.” Prolific Brooklyn institution The Men return
with their ninth studio album, ‘New York City’. Arriving following 2020’s ‘Mercy’, the new LP is released February 3rd 2023 on the
group’s new label home Fuzz Club Records and marks a return to the more scuzzy and abrasive rock ploughed over their decade and
a half spent coursing through the grimy sewers of NYC. Here, nocturnal proto-punk meets a timeless, all-guns-blazing rock’n’roll gusto.
That the album leans into a more primitive, back-to-basics sound owes largely to the way in which was forged, an earlier version of the
record scrapped in favour of four people playing in a room together. “The New York City album was revised, reorganized and shaped
until it became clear that things fall into place like the hammer driving the nail or the scythe's swipe through the tall grass.” The end
result is a series of cuts played live and recorded to 2" tape in Travis Harrison’s (Guided By Voices, Built To Spill) Brooklyn studio.
‘New York City’ is a record that doesn’t stop moving for a second, packed full of the kind of energy you can only really capture in a live
setting. “These songs became the blood of the band as the band could only exist for and of these songs. There was no place else to
hang their hats. Without making this record, the group would not exist, so there really wasn't another option. NYC is fluid. It means a lot
of different things to all kinds of people. We present the record in that spirit.” Tracklist: 1) Hard Livin' 2) Peace of Mind 3) Echo 4) God
Bless The USA 5) Eye 6) Eternal Recurrence 7) Round The Corner 8) Through The Night 9) Anyway I Find You 10) River Flows