The Deserters

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The 2013 release of Rachel Zeffira's The Deserters, has been out of stock for 8 years! Paper Bag Records has brought back the dark raspberry vinyl with CD included for a limited time only while quantities last! Grab yours now before it's too late!

Rachel Zeffira’s debut solo album 'The Deserters' is both beautiful and beguiling - a gauzy, rapturous tour de force that mines both Zeffira’s classical training as well as the pop sensibilities she displayed as one half of Cat’s Eyes. It might recall at times the baroque pop of John Cale and the hazy experimentation of My Bloody Valentine, but at heart it’s a largely unclassifiable record that stands defiantly alone and apart from its peers.

The album grew from her first solo recordings – a wondrous cover of My Bloody Valentine’s ‘To Here Knows When’ and the evocative ‘Waiting For Sylvia’ – which she sung, played and orchestrated in the summer of 2011. Spurred on by the positive results – the music was greeted enthusiastically by everyone from Pitchfork to NME - she began to piece together songs for 'The Deserters' when time allowed. The process was unusual because the writing often took place in unexpected locations such as local churches.

Tracklisting: 

1. The Deserters
2. Here On In
3. Letters From Tokyo (Sayonara)
4. Front Door
5. Break the Spell
6. Silver City Days
7. Star
8. To Here Knows When
9. Waiting for Sylvia
10. Goodbye Divine
    
    Original Release Date: March 12, 2013
    
    Catalogue No: PAPER074