The Queen of Hearts Digital HD FLAC Album (88kHz/24bit) exclusive

The Queen of Hearts Digital HD FLAC Album (88kHz/24bit) exclusiveThe Queen of Hearts is the debut album from Offa Rex, an adventurous project featuring English singer multi instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists. Produced and recorded by Tucker Martine (Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Neko Case) and Colin Meloy at Martines studio in Portland, OR, the album draws largely on traditional English Irish Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk

The album was recorded in Brooklyn and produced by Beam’s longtime associate Brian Deck

features Mehldau on Fender Rhodes and synthesizers and Guiliana on drums and effects

"After we got over the shock of losing our hero and friend

was recorded live at Nashvilles Oceanway Studios

"In 20 years

Rolling StonehailedEl Caminofor bringing "raw

with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes

while they last

" The vinyl includes two 140-gram LPs pressed at Pallas MFG in Diepholz

and concludes with the more recent sampled soundscapes of City Life

the New York Times said the work “transmutes contemporary history into operatic poetry

and Jonathan Wilson