Beauty Land: Vinyl LP Don Letts Rafiq Bhatia

Rafiq Bhatia

Pop foraging with analog acoustics and electronic landscaping

CD edition includes new singles via download code

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Written and then recorded with additional musicians Ted White

Beauty Land: Vinyl LP Don Letts Rafiq BhatiaGreg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, were guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance cynicism and faith. These songs are self effacing without self pity, carefully constructed altars of imperfection channeled through pop melodies,