{"product_id":"shabason-krgovich-four-days-in-june","title":"Shabason \u0026 Krgovich - Four Days in June","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Since their 2020 collaborative album, Philadelphia, Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich have been locked in a musical orbit that centrifugally extracts beauty and grandeur from the lesser details of their daily lives. Across their joint discography, they’ve created a small universe where wry and melancholy micro-moments quietly bloom into full-scale wonders of the heart. But where the pair’s previous mutual efforts showed them peering at pop songs from tidepools of mutated adult contemporary and first-thought-best-thought poetics, Four Days in June snapshots an unself-conscious reach toward the kind of CD era songcraft that lives in your car’s center console, always ready to be thrown on while life happens. It spiritually grafts its scope from heyday all-timers like “Harvest Moon”, R.E.M., or K.D. Lang’s “Ingenue”, while winking at 90s pop country via flutters of pedal steel, banjo, and fiddle. Yet all of these inspirations remain self-honest and unborrowed, modifying and underlining the crystal-clear sincerity that has come to define Shabason and Krgovich’s co-output. Four Days in June is a document of its authors looking back on their lives half-passed, finding contentment with how things have unfolded. By that very same process, Shabason and Krgovich manage to find quiet confidence in the most naturalistic version of their own creativity. Four Days in June was indeed born in the summertime, as its title suggests. Spurred by the recruitment of pedal-steel player Ian McGimpsey, Joseph began summoning his tried-and-true core lineup (bassist and keyboardist Bram Gielen, guitarist Thom Gill, and drummer Phil Melanson) to his Toronto studio before he was certain that Krgovich would be able to trek from Vancouver. Nick was fresh off of producing a new album for Tsunami’s Jenny Toomey, and seemingly enjoying the mental space he found when not preoccupied with music. Meanwhile, amid the stress and joy of parenting young kids, and the worsening Parkinson’s complications of his mother (for whom his 2019 solo album Anne is named), Joseph was finding a buoy for day-to-day gravity by diving headlong into music-making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving borrowed its title-- half-candidly, half-lovingly-- from the 1993 album Five Days in July by Canadian alt-country icons Blue Rodeo, Four Days in June aims its fond and hazy memories of yesterday’s pop-country toward a distinctive and truthful outcome free of smirk and subversion. Its out-of-character influences give new dimension to the intimacy, snapshot poetry, emotional veracity, and spot-on musicianship that Shabason and Krgovich have sculpted across their collaborative discography.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IDEÉ FIXE RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":54518804709699,"sku":"RPT-24354","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/IF049-FDIJ.png?v=1780335395","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/shabason-krgovich-four-days-in-june","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}