{"product_id":"friendship-caveman-wakes-up","title":"Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up","description":"The band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset by flute pads, bleary poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford fades out with a drum solo, like if Talk Talk came from a dingy Philadelphia basement and was fronted by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ ragged baritone cuts through eleven murky, swirling country-rock songs with profound lyrical substance and sincerity. Like an alarm clock incorporated into the edge of a dream, 'Caveman Wakes Up' belongs equally to the conscious and subconscious mind, fraught with background, steeped in reference and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated, above all, to music’s creative soul. Several of the songs employ fade-outs, jokingly referred to in the lyrics of “Love Vape,” and there are other elements lifted from Motown and ’70s ballads: locked-in drum patterns, bass intervals, sentimental string arrangements. Each reference is pushed past genre, swirling and repeating, into something new and squarely belonging to the Friendship sound. On “Free Association,” “Artex,” and “Wildwood in January,” the groove is established so that other sounds can come and go seamlessly; Mellotron patches, piano flurries and stabs, and clean guitar melodies, teeming textures disguised in unity. As a work of music production, 'Caveman Wakes Up' is Friendship’s most advanced yet, another testament to the band’s devotion and care.","brand":"Merge Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50241782743318,"sku":"RMX-42321","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD With 8pp Booklet","offer_id":50241783202070,"sku":"RMX-42322","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/27d8006099b01c9bd89c641a750e5fa4_a43a80de-a46d-44fc-ab07-511685e8fccd.jpg?v=1752629395","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/friendship-caveman-wakes-up","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}