{"product_id":"hit-bargain-a-dog-a-deer-a-seal","title":"Hit Bargain - A DOG A DEER A SEAL","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHit Bargain (members of Beach Fossils and Cold Beat)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, the angular Los Angeles four-piece known for their sardonic explorations of gender, power dynamics, and aging action heroes, returns with their latest album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA DOG A DEER A SEAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. The album is named for the recipe of Chinese three-penis wine, and an apocryphal chimera representing the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWritten and recorded in the heady before-times of 2019 and early 2020, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA DOG A DEER A SEAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis a skittish, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eescitalopram-fueled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003esnapshot of a country on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The deck is stacked with active shooter drills, tech bro millionaires, true crime, general anxiety, and impending catastrophe. In short, nothing much different than now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn opening track  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImmaculate Vaxxer”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, singer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Nora Singh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e menacingly wavers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA warning \/ Or a premonition to be ignored \/ Superstition buoying us to impossible shores\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e” against \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMike Barron\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003es ragged guitar stabs, while bass player \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSean Monaghan \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eand drummer \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnton Hochheim \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecreate a roiling, brackish undercurrent that tugs the listener along. The chorus of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMy body is not my own, It\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003es a host\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e” is an exhausted but saintly submission to the unpredictability of ungovernable chronic disease.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eKeeping with the theme of disparate animal parts, Hit Bargain flexes their stylistic range across the album. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDegree Decree”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, they lope through a frenetic climate dystopia in a manner that recalls the ghosts of angst rockers The Blood Brothers and the art school agitation of Erase Errata. While \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCloud Cover”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e starts as a restrained krautrock fever dream that then blooms and imprints like reversed fireworks on the mind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003es eye. And the closing titular track is a brutalist bully pulpit that pokes at the taxidermied remains of democracy, before panning to the left, making \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA DOG A DEER A SEAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehighly palatable, even to its bitter end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e1. Immaculate Vaxxer\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e2. Hair Trigger\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e3. Pressure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e4. Degree Decree\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e5. Cloud Cover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e6. Worst\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e7. Small Radius\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e8. True Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e9. Cheat Grass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e10. A DOG A DEER A SEAL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Get Better Records","offers":[{"title":"Pink Vinyl","offer_id":58585134006353,"sku":"GBR-HIT-BARGAIN-LP-PINK","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl","offer_id":58585134039121,"sku":"GBR-HIT-BARGAIN-LP-BLACK","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/HBPINKNEWFINAL_9fde0b2c-7e91-4808-a884-38a6a5183719.jpg?v=1767811673","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/es\/products\/hit-bargain-a-dog-a-deer-a-seal","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}