They Only Wanted Your Soul, by The Reds, Pinks & Purples

They Only Wanted Your Soul

by The Reds, Pinks & Purples

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Peyton Cease This album fully encapsulates everything I love about The Reds, Pinks & Purples - minus the instrumentals of course! Favorite track: Saw You at the Record Shop Today.

vickjeff1 Great music, dream pop? Power pop?
You decide, just a great listen.
Inspired lyrics and a pleasant melodic execution.
Buy the Vinyl so you can enjoy the sleeve.
They are their own individual works of art.
Great sleeves for delicious tunes.

stinkydave I should hate the singer’s voice, based on other similar male singers’ voices I’ve disliked through the decades.
But somehow it isn’t a dealbreaker for me here.
I was exactly perfectly ready today for someone else’s melancholy, packaged neatly with minimally developed dreamy layers of pop haze.
And though lyrical content is often unimportant or secondary to my enjoyment of a song, these words are working for me.
I’m enjoying a bittersweet nostalgia for feelings I haven’t endured. Perfect. Favorite track: We Won't Come Home at Christmas Time.

brantly I like flowers. I like San Francisco. I like woozy love songs that remind me of an opiated Felt. I like reissues of extremely expensive singles. I like Slumberland Records. I like watching the snow fall while smiling to music that reminds me of warm rain. I like chocolate chip cookies. I should bake some.

a culler the original 7" is probably my favorite RPPs release to date, but there were pressing issues--mine was pretty noisy....great to have this new edition--thanks

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Beautiful royal blue vinyl edition with full-color 2-sided insert. One per customer, please.

Includes unlimited streaming of They Only Wanted Your Soul via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	I Should Have Helped You 03:27	buy track
2.	Unrequited 02:47	buy track
3.	Keep Your Secrets Close 02:33	buy track
4.	They Only Wanted Your Soul 02:40	buy track
5.	Is Your Mind That Free? 02:13	buy track
6.	Saw You at the Record Shop Today 02:41	buy track
7.	In My Poems & Pictures 02:32	buy track
8.	Workers of the World 03:58	buy track
9.	We Won't Come Home at Christmas Time 02:56	buy track
10.	Sky & Earth 02:52	buy track

about

Before The Reds, Pinks & Purples started getting noticed by a larger audience, the "I Should Have Helped You" 4 song EP snuck out on Swedish experimental label I Dischi Del Barone and quickly disappeared, becoming a little-heard but often whispered about piece of the RPPs discography. Recorded around the same time as the material that ended up on his breakthrough LP "Uncommon Weather," it contains some of the best examples of Glenn Donaldson’s melancholy but wry take on indie pop. Needless to say, it's terrific.

The original 7" is now a white whale for collectors, trading for silly prices on Discogs when it shows up at all. This music *needs* to be heard, so we've put together this limited reissue that adds six more tracks to make it a mini-LP length grab bag of hits. It has songs about record shopping, religion, worker’s rights, dysfunctional holidays, and of course heartbreak sung over a maze of shimmering fuzzy guitars and drum machine beats -- an essential chapter of the Reds, Pinks & Purples story.

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released October 14, 2022

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The Reds, Pinks & Purples San Francisco, California

"The Jandek of Belle & Sebastians"

music by Glenn Donaldson with Kati Mishikian, Lewis Gallardo, Thomas Rubenstein & Daniel Pearce

UK booking contact
outsider-artists.co.uk/artist/the-reds-pinks-purples/

for vinyl/CD ordering questions please contact Slumberland (USA) or Tough Love (UK) directly. ... more

shows

Apr 26

Cloudland Theater

Minneapolis, MN
Apr 27

Cloudland Theater

Minneapolis, MN
Jun 11

The Moon

Cardiff, UK
Jun 12

The Lexington

London, UK
Jun 13

The Lexington

London, UK
Jun 14

Ramsgate Music Hall

Ramsgate, UK
Jun 15

The Hope and Ruin Brighton

Brighton, UK
Jun 16

Portland Arms

Cambridge, UK
Jun 18

Night & Day

Manchester, UK
Jun 19

Glad Café

Glasgow, UK
Jun 20

Brudenell Social Club

Leeds, UK
Jun 20

Brudenell Social Club

Leeds, UK
Jun 21

Dareshack

Bristol, UK
Jun 22

The Barrel House Ballroom

Totnes, UK
Sep 27

August Hall

San Francisco, CA

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