David Bazan – Strange Negotiations (15th anniv, blue vinyl)

With this limited color vinyl pressing, Barsuk marks the 15th anniversary of David Bazans masterful Strange Negotiations the prophetic 2011 meditation on what he was already seeing as a developing crisis of American and global social fragmentation.

Bazan built his dedicated following as the songwriter and driving force behind the acclaimed indie band Pedro the Lion. During his time releasing music under his own name via Barsuk, his extraordinary melodic sense and erudite, theologically-themed songs began to focus overtly on his own crisis of faith after having been raised in the evangelical Christian movement, and Strange Negotiations comes across like an angry, great rock band playing songs they’re beyond intimate with.

In addition to the stellar title track, it includes the indie-hit “Wolves at the Door.”