BACHMANN,ERIC – TO THE RACES (OPAQUE ORANGE VINYL) - LP •

UPC: 648401009514 Label: SADDLE CREEK Format: LPRelease Date: August 9, 2024In stock items ship within 48 hours Originally released in 2006, Eric Bachmann’s debut solo album To the Races returns to vinyl nearly eighteen years after its original pressing.Returning home from tour to no commonly-defined home, Eric Bachmann largely wrote To the Races in June and July of 2005 while voluntarily living in the back of his van. Bachmann made the best of the hospitable Northwestern summer by setting up home and shop in his vehicle, and found that living like a makeshift Siddhartha worked well for him: he used the time to craft the unadorned and unapologetically forthright collection of songs that compose his first solo release.Whereas Bachmann's prior release, Crooked Fingers' Dignity and Shame, had been his most poppy and immediately accessible album to date, To the Races is undoubtedly his most sparse and reflective. Having stepped out from under the cover of a band name, To the Races marked B