Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005): Limited Champagne Wave Vinyl 2LP Eleri Ward meaty sound of The Stooges’

meaty sound of The Stooges’ Fun House or Lola Versus Powerman by the Kinks

their 12th studio release heralds from the rooftops – their longevity is down to a resolute commitment to find new ways to enthrall and inspire their ever-growing legion of latter-day heretics

charged with an energy so intense that the speakers to several of Valentine Recording Studios’ vintage amps ended up blowing out during the sessions

Hval will play London’s EartH venue on 11th April 2022

The package features photography and memoir from George Alper

Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005): Limited Champagne Wave Vinyl 2LP Eleri Ward meaty sound of The Stooges’One of the things that struck Oberst as he and the band went through twenty plus years of music is that he may in fact have been writing the same song this whole time. Not sonically, of course, but conceptually. This last wave contains, in Noise Floor, early Bright Eyes songs so raw Oberst never even released them back in the day, as well as, in Cassadaga and The Peoples Key, the bands most polished and sophisticated albums. When Bright Eyes toured