Dinked Archive Edition #1 The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin [10th Anniversary Edition] //Bella Union// (Released 29th November)

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£26.99 – The Low Anthem – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin 

BELLA202VX (DINKED EDITION)

 + 180g White Vinyl

+ Hand-numbered Screen printed sleeve

+ Limited to 300 copies

+ DL code

+ ‘Dinked Archive’ obi-strip and a custom gold foil sticker.

The Low Anthem to reissue breakout LP ‘Oh My God, Charlie Darwin’ on 10th anniversary with a custom Dinked Edition.

It’s been a decade since Rhode Island’s The Low Anthem released their breakout second LP Oh My God, Charlie Darwin. The album trawled a sombre and indelible beauty from America’s troubled waters, and struck a deep chord with listeners. The band’s 2008 self-released version of the disc spread like wildfire via word-of-mouth audience response, eventually attracting the attention of Bella Union and Nonesuch Records. Oh My God, Charlie Darwin was licensed, remastered, reissued and traveled the globe, sweeping the DIY minded Low Anthem along with it. From the ragtag house show hopping, MySpace friending, bar gigging circuits to the venerated stages of Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk Festival, and the BBC.

“At first we were pushing the album out into the world, but then at some point we passed a threshold where the album took over, and started pulling us along on its ride,” the group’s co-founder Ben Knox Miller said. “Suddenly we were trying to keep up with it.”

A brief survey of late-2000s American popular culture offers no immediate clue as to why an earnest, and largely acoustic folk-rock album would so dramatically rise up from America’s underground – and perhaps no-one was more surprised by this than the band itself. “We definitely worked hard, and we had a lot of luck, but the response was overwhelming,” Miller observed.

To mark the album’s ten year anniversary, The Low Anthem are issuing a limited-edition vinyl pressing of Oh My God, Charlie Darwin via DINKED. Limited to 300 copies, each record will be encased in a unique screen printed jacket, pressed on to 180g White Vinyl.

Tracklist

1. Charlie Darwin
2. To Ohio
3. Ticket Taker
4. The Horizon Is A Beltway
5. Home I’ll Never Be
6. Cage The Songbird
7. (Don’t) Tremble
8. Music Box
9. Champion Angel
10. To The Ghosts Who Write History Books
11. OMGCD
12. To Ohio (Reprise)