Eleventh Dream Day‘s acclaimed new double album “Since Grazed” (cmo051) is available around the world today.
Find it on digital providers like Bandcamp, Apple Music, Amazon and YouTube Music (formerly Google Play).
Better yet, purchase a physical copy!
Due to high demand there is limited stock available in the CMO shop and via the group’s Bandcamp page. We have just over 20 gorgeous gatefold records in our warehouse presently.
Fret not! EDD will have copious copies for sale at their upcoming shows and several hundred 2xLPs were set aside specifically for stores.
International customers, please request your local shops order from Redeye if they do not have this title already in stock. You will save significantly on shipping this way. Rough Trade, Piccadilly Records and Norman Records are but three recommended retailers for our UK friends.
We’re always happy to put specific stores in touch with our rep to facilitate your purchase.
Where the last decade of Eleventh Dream Day music has been defined by the work of a band honing their live roar in the studio, “Since Grazed” contemplates what isn’t there, and builds the songs from the bottom up, relying on long-lived friendships and trust. While 2015’s “Works For Tomorrow” barreled down the highway, conscious of and trying to outrace the past, “Since Grazed” takes the long way home, spacing out a bit, and reveling in the journey, celebrating those along for the ride. Not all have made it, but this is not a record about what is lost, it is about what is still there, however grazed it may be.
The line-up for “Since Grazed” is now intact for consecutive albums, featuring Janet Bean (drums, vocals), Rick Rizzo (guitars, vocals), Douglas McCombs (acoustic and electric bass), Mark Greenberg (piano, organ, synthesizers, vocals, studio wizardry), and James Elkington (guitars, piano, synthesizers).
With Nick Macri (bowed bass) and Peggy Rizzo (flute).
Featuring members of Tortoise, Brokeback, Freakwater, The Coctails, Archer Prewitt, The Zincs, Tweedy, and Steve Gunn.
“Since Grazed” was mastered at Saff Mastering and pressed at Smashed Plastic in Chicago.
Advance praise for “Since Grazed”:
A dark, mesmerizing beauty.” – Greg Kot
“Essential” – Magnet Magazine
“One of the most sublime and engaging works in their nearly 40-year history.” – Chicago Reader
“It’s gorgeous. It’s laid back, it’s twangy, it’s sometimes orchestral and often beautiful and definitely heartfelt. It’s Eleventh Dream Day.” – Brooklyn Vegan
“Since Grazed is fantastic. ‘Just Got Home (In Time To Say Goodbye)’ rides the country-storytelling line, ‘Yves Klein Blues’ is a frantically propulsive that name-checks the king of minimalist art, and ‘A Case to Carry On’ is the R.E.M. song that Peter Buck wished he wrote. Just when you think the album is about to slide to a permanent slow down, you get uptempo tracks with pop inflections like ‘Cracks in My Smile’ or spacey freak out likes ‘Take Care’. But it all comes back to that country shuffle, and album closer ‘Every Time This Day it Rains’ is a beautifully bittersweet send off.” – Far Out Magazine
“Eleventh Dream Day surprise with…a welcome return from a band who never need a return to form.” – T-Bones Records & Cafe
“A quiet, jewel of a record.” – Dagger
“It’s hard to truly exalt upon the world just how good it is.” – Concrete Islands
“Since Grazed shows off the breadth…of experience, filled with songs that are twangy and dynamic and have a sense of community, making full use of everyone in the group” – Stereogum
“It shouldn’t be a surprise that Eleventh Dream Day have turned in something as strong as Since Grazed after thirty years of musical vitality, but that they did it by expanding and reshaping their sound is remarkable in its own right.” – Rosy Overdrive
[W]hile Eleventh Dream Day may turn down the sound dial, the results are still tremendous.” – Sun 13
Eleventh Dream Day are playing a trio of shows next month to celebrate their new album.
Saturday, September 18th – The Storehouse (outdoors) – Galien, MI
Friday, September 24th – Constellation (proof of vaccination required) – Chicago, IL
Saturday, September 25th – Constellation (proof of vaccination required) – Chicago, IL
Finally, Grant Nickson has directed a pair of gorgeous animated videos for songs off “Since Grazed,” the latest of which is “Just Got Home (in Time to Say Goodbye).” Watch both videos on our YouTube channel.
