Naked Giants The Shadow LP DIE CUT SLEEVE gives the album a maturity

gives the album a maturity that carries the listener through many facets of the soul music spectrum

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and is a perfect primer for an album that treads a course between Eno-era Roxy sleaze

” “Slow Down” and “(Don’t Try to Lay No Boogie Woogie on the) King of Rock & Roll” -- not to mention deep album cuts like “Keeps Me Running

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Naked Giants The Shadow LP DIE CUT SLEEVE gives the album a maturityThe Shadow is an album of growth. Each song on The Shadow examines an aspect of this growth through a different musical lens, adding up to a series of rock and roll vignettes of light, shadow, anxiety and responsibility. Frantic punk scenes of information overload are contrasted by patient drones of introspection; fun, ear worm musings of life as a young rock band are juxtaposed with the heavier responsibility of having a voice and not quite knowing