Ben Van Bonn
Like crawling through a garden tunnel to a pool full of copper artifacts. Beachy, mossy, with puffs of dark smoke. I haven't heard these types of spells since Broadcast.
Favorite track: Everyone Knows.
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12" Limited Edition Classic Black Vinyl LP of “Strange Paradise" w/ double-sided insert.
*Vinyl pressing is delayed industry-wide. There is a chance your order might be delayed as a result. We plan to ship as soon as we receive the records on our end.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
12" Limited Edition Classic Black Vinyl LP of “Strange Paradise" w/ double-sided insert.
Includes: black matchbook w/ gold "Strange Paradise" printed on it, and the 40-page, full-color, glossy 7x7 book "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" by Sarah La Puerta.
*Vinyl pressing is delayed industry-wide. There is a chance your order might be delayed as a result. We plan to ship as soon as we receive the records on our end.
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40-page, full-color, glossy 7x7 book "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" by Sarah La Puerta.
"An anthologette of some past postcards I've loved & let go. Names and addresses have been obscured to protect the innocent & the damned (mostly the damned). If I've ever sent you a postcard, a fragment of it may be buried in there somewhere, although I've been a very unambitious documentarian over the years... Always check the mail!" - Sarah La Puerta
Includes: black matchbook w/ gold "Strange Paradise" printed on it, and the 40-page, full-color, glossy 7x7 book "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" by Sarah La Puerta.
*Vinyl pressing is delayed industry-wide. There is a chance your order might be delayed as a result. We plan to ship as soon as we receive the records on our end.
Includes unlimited streaming of Strange Paradise
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Includes unlimited streaming of Strange Paradise
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Stranger Than Paradise Deluxe Pack: Limited Edition Gold Nugget Vinyl LP & Cassette with "Strange Paradise" Matchbook, "Satisfaction" Sticker and "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" Book by Sarah La Puerta
Includes: black matchbook w/ gold "Strange Paradise" printed on it, and the 40-page, full-color, glossy 7x7 book "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" by Sarah La Puerta.
*Vinyl pressing is delayed industry-wide. There is a chance your order might be delayed as a result. We plan to ship as soon as we receive the records on our end.
Includes unlimited streaming of Strange Paradise
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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"Don't give them the satisfaction." Sticker designed by Sarah La Puerta
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Sticker designed by Sarah La Puerta. Limited to 50.
Our stickers are printed on extra thick vinyl and have a strong adhesive. They are weatherproof: fade resistant for 3 to 5 years, even in the toughest conditions.
Free shipping in the U.S.
Includes unlimited streaming of Strange Paradise
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Limited Edition Cassette with "Strange Paradise" Matchbook and "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" Book by Sarah La Puerta
Includes: black matchbook w/ gold "Strange Paradise" printed on it, and the 40-page, full-color, glossy 7x7 book "Always Check the Mail Vol. 2" by Sarah La Puerta.
Includes unlimited streaming of Strange Paradise
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Perpetual Doom is proud to present the debut album from Sarah La Puerta: Strange Paradise. Begun on a dead-end street in Austin, TX and finished in a barn in upstate New York, this collection of original songs emerges from the inbetween places of the mind and heart, grounded by autobiographical truth that resonates with the force of myth.
Built around the gentle pulse of a Baldwin Fun Machine, a midcentury organ and synthesizer, each track revels in uncanny sounds that call on a world gone by. Swirling in the background are traces of Mexican boleros, Bulgarian choral music, and the melodic sensibilities of Old Bollywood. But even as La Puerta’s musical textures drift off into warm nostalgia, her words cut right to the present. On the opener, “A Gun,” she sings: “That’s why I’m buying a gun: I’d like to have some fun, now while the chips are down.” A peculiar levity throughout offers a distinct counterpoint to the ever-present themes of memory, desire and grief. Sarah La Puerta weaves between them in swaying arrangements that foreground her careful sense of melody and ascendant voice.
Moving through the haze of memory and forgotten landscapes, these songs insist on living in the imperfect present—seeing each moment as a kind of paradise. “In the deepest misery, a speck of joy,” she sings on “The Ballad of Twin Towers,” a song that fixates on the violently transformed skyline of New York City as an allegory of devastation and renewal. At other moments, she draws inspiration from the urban desolation of Coney Island, the life of Houdini, and the idealized eternity of palms in tropic breeze. This paradise is vast.
This set of songs was composed and recorded mostly at home by La Puerta between 2015-2020 as she moved around Texas and ultimately settled in New York. The rest was recorded at the studio of Craig Ross, who mixed, played on, and produced the album. Yet for all the time and space it covers, it seeks meaning in the delicate here and now. “To call it evergreen leaves no in between,” La Puerta sings on “Pommes de Pin,” “Me, I’ve never seen something last.” Strange Paradise offers elegant consolation for living with that fragility.
The brilliant Sally Dige returns with this sweeping new single that is grand in scope and centered on a radiant chorus. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2022
