Youth Detention by Lee Bains III [Ltd Ed] (Pink Vinyl, Jun-2017, 2-LP) *NEW*

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Youth Detention by Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires [Indie Exclusive, Limited Edition] [Double Pink Vinyl LP] [Gatefold Jacket]
Track Listing:

• 1. Breaking It Down!
• 2. Sweet Disorder!
• 3. Good Old Boy
• 4. Black & White Boys
• 5. Whitewash
• 6. Underneath the Sheets of White Noise
• 7. I Heard God
• 8. Crooked Letters
• 9. I Can Change
• 10. The City Walls
• 11. Had to Laugh
• 12. Nail My Feet Down to the Southside of Town
• 13. Tongues of Flame!
• 14. Trying to Ride
• 15. The Picture of a Man
• 16. Commencement Address for the Deindustrialized Dispersion
• 17. Save My Life!

Limited edition double pink colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket.  YOUTH DETENTION was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Battletapes with engineer Jeremy Ferguson and producer Tim Kerr, Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires' Youth Detention captures the band in raw form.  Each song was cut live to tape, with the four performing in the same room without headphones or baffling.  The result is thoroughly human, Lynn Bridges' mix retaining the band's live energy and looseness at the expense of a few out of tune strings.  The Glory Fires music draws deeply from punk, but also soul, power pop, country, and gospel.  Its equal parts careful curation and geographic inheritance. Its the sound of my place, says Bains.  I want to know it.  I want to argue with it. I dont want to be a band from anywhere that could be doing anything.  For me, thats what punk is about figuring out who I am and how to be the best version of myself.  I cant do that by pretending to be something Im not.  The songs are deeply rooted in Bains experience of his hometown, Birmingham, AL.  Youth Detention depicts a Southern city in the decades surrounding the turn-of-the-millennium: in the throes of white flight, urban disinvestment, racial tension, class struggle, gentrification, gender policing, homophobia, xenophobia, religious fervor, deindustrialization, and economic upheaval.  The lyrics could ring true anywhere, though.  The South exists in the world and, like the South, the world is increasingly beholden to many of these same tensions and forces.  The songs on Youth Detention are meant as small acts of resistance to those systems.  Documenting minor moments the refusal to sit quietly through a display of bigotry, the act of quieting down and listening to somebody's struggle, sticking up for friends targeted for their difference that, hopefully, serve as the beginnings of a more profound awakening.
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Lee Bains III has a lot to say, and no one is going to stop his from saying it.  While stories of life in the modern South dominated Bains' first two albums with his band the Glory Fires, on his third long-player, Bains steps up on his soapbox and delivers a long, impassioned, powerfully articulate speech on the state of America and the trials and tribulations of its young people.  2017's Youth Detention is a furiously wordy set of songs, written with the eloquent rage of a gifted poet as he tosses out thumbnail essays on race, gender, class, identity, hope, its absence, and what it all means to one guy with a guitar from Alabama.  Youth Detention has (and needs) a lyric sheet, in part because these songs are so heavy with verbiage that Bains has trouble cramming everything he has to say into the framework of his melodies, and it would be impossible to sort out what he's singing in "Tongues of Flame" without the benefit of the booklet.  This album does suffer from one of the same unfortunate production choices that marred 2014's Dereconstructed: namely, the vocals are low in the mix, with the audio giving a bit too much room to the guitars and not enough to Bains as he sings, especially given how smart and compelling the lyrics happen to be.  (And the album's production is honestly ambitious, incorporating found sounds, manipulated field recordings, and sonic atmospheres in the spaces between the tracks.)  But the guitars are plenty articulate on Youth Detention, too, and from a musical standpoint, this is Bains' hardest and most satisfying album to date.  Playing with a taut fury that sits somewhere between hard rock and first-era punk, Bains and his bandmates -- Eric Wallace on guitar, Adam Williamson on bass, and Blake Williamson on drums -- rock with a streetwise swagger that comes straight from the heart and gives these tunes plenty of sweat and muscle that prevent this from ever sounding pretentious, no many how many words Bains tosses into the mix.  In many ways, Youth Detention is a flawed album that bites off more than it can chew, but what's right about it makes it one of the most powerful and honestly moving American rock albums in recent memory, and it's the work of a rising talent who deserves a far wider hearing. ~ Mark Deming, AllMusic

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