Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers (LP)

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13 Rivers is Richard Thompson'€™s first self-produced album in over a decade, and was recorded 100% analogue in just 10 days. It was engineered by Clay Blair (The War on Drugs) and features Thompson'€™s regular accompanists Michael Jerome (drums, percussion), Taras Prodaniuk (bass), and Bobby Eichorn (guitar).

13 Rivers is a bare-bones, emotionally direct album that speaks from the heart with no filters. "€œThere are 13 songs on the record, and each one is like a river,"€ Thompson explains. "€œSome flow faster than others. Some follow a slow and winding current. They all culminate on this one body of work.

"€œThe songs are a surprise in a good way. They came to me as a surprise in a dark time. They reflected my emotions in an oblique manner that I'€™ll never truly understand. It'€™s as if they'€™d been channelled from somewhere else. You find deeper meaning in the best records as time goes on. The reward comes later."€ He continues, "I don'€™t know how the creative process works. I suppose it is some kind of bizarre parallel existence to my own life. I often look at a finished song and wonder what the hell is going on inside me. We sequenced the weird stuff at the front of the record, and the tracks to grind your soul into submission at the back."

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