Read Music/Speak Spanish (Remastered)

LP PACKAGING NOTES: Vinyl pressed at GZ Includes photo collage poster insert Includes download card including 2 bonus tracks: "What’s New For Fall" and "Give Me the Pen" Limited Edition Tri-Color LP- Pressed on light blue, cream, and orange tri-color vinyl (Limit 2 per customer)- Limited Edition of 1000 Standard LP- Pressed on transparent blue vinyl (Limit 2 per customer) 2022 finds us releasing the 20th Anniversary Edition of Desaparecidos' Read Music/Speak Spanish into a world in which the dread and disenfranchisement detailed throughout the album feel as pertinent today as they did then. The characters and settings may have changed, but the startling narrative has not. In late 2001, Conor Oberst, Denver Dalley, Landon Hedges, Ian McElroy, and Matt Baum spent a week at Presto! Recording Studio in Lincoln, NE recording a punk album. That debut album, released in the post-9/11 fog of early 2002, screamed out observational commentary on urban development, the sacrifice of human value