Walking Papers The Light Below (RSD Black Friday 11.27.2020)RSD BLACK FRIDAY 2020 RELEASE LIMITED TO 1,500 COPIES WORLDWIDE LIMITED TO 1,100 IN NORTH AMERICA The Light Below is the third album from Walking Papers, due in February 2021. This limited edition collector's double white vinyl is an early release of the album, exclusive to Record Store Day Black Friday stores, months prior to its worldwide release. The Seattle based blues rock outfit were called 'the best rock band in Seattle' by The New York Times

the album contains their cover of Joy Division's "Shadowplay" (used in the biopic CONTROL)

The desperate "715 - CR

I'm just burning out

" the fierce "Debaser

" the pealing feedback that opens the disc ("Dark Entries") and the anguished howl in the first line of "Double Dare" ("I dare you to be real

California 13

and Lucius

suggests some level of heightened ambition -- but From a Room

but not unlike the Velvet Underground's Loaded

and just about every planetary ill

There's also a curious instrumental rendition of the Christmas standard "Silent Night

The album succeeds not only because the exuberant pounding the band gives to the familiar "Back in Black