Caamp: Lavender Days (opaque baby pink vinyl) [MOM+POP]

Why you'll love it

An opaque baby pink pressing of the Ohio band's fourth album, with an 18x24 poster tucked inside. It has "Believe," which went to No. 1 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart.

This edition

• Opaque baby pink vinyl
• 18x24 poster
• Mom + Pop pressing (cat# MP587)
• Twelve songs, six per side

About the album

Caamp started as two friends from Athens, Ohio, Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall, playing banjo and acoustic guitar on porches and in college bars, and by the time of Lavender Days they had grown into a full band with a sound to match. They made the record in North Carolina at the studio belonging to Sylvan Esso, out in the woods near Durham, and you can hear the room in it: warm, unhurried and a little sun-dazed. Meier's voice still has that gravelly, late-night quality, but the arrangements are fuller and brighter than anything they had done before.

"Believe" opens up like a road trip with the windows down and became their first No. 1 at adult alternative radio. "Apple Tree Blues" and "The Otter" keep the folk roots showing, "Lavender Girl" is as sweet as its name, and "Snowshoes" slows things to a hush near the end. It is a record about being young, in love and slightly unsure where it is all going, which describes most of the people who come in asking for it. The pink vinyl suits it perfectly. So does a summer evening.

Tracklist

Listen

On Mom + Pop (cat# MP587), first out in 2022.