Mendez, Greg - Beauty Land (Clear Colored Vinyl) IMT5081780.1

Mendez, Greg - Beauty Land (Clear Colored Vinyl) IMT5081780.1Greg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, we're guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance cynicism and faith. These songs are self effacing without self pity, carefully constructed altars of imperfection channeled through pop melodies,

harmonies and more

the album peaked at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart in 1981

Written and produced through the haze of two lockdowns in London and NYC with producers Jack Antonoff and Glass Animals' Dave Bayley

there's a trail of psychedelic breadcrumbs to find throughout the track list

every barbed one-liner and exhalation of despair perfectly preserved"

who took the famous nude calendar photographs of Marilyn Monroe on red velvet in 1949

The track "Playground Love" gained significant recognition

We think of homesickness and family

Epoch is a maximalist collection

The music exists somewhere in the temporary equilibrium of light and shadow

half-remembered imagery

“It’s about artistic integrity