ENABLERS Zones [LP]

Established in San Francisco in 2002, ENABLERS’ subsequent five LPs and four EPs have signaled a transcendent approach to “spoken word” music. Delivering another performance of the band’s singular, immersive, jazz/post-rock approach, the new Zones album delivers another forty-minute spiral down the rabbit hole, with nine new visceral and poignant character-driven tales. ENABLERS’ 2019 LP, Zones — a co-release by Lancashire and Somerset, Exile on Mainstream, and Broken Clover Records — is a further example of the band’s push for musical expansion and growth. Zones represents a band that is increasingly more comfortable with experimentation and improvisation, while continuing to embrace all the musical elements that have established their sound for close to twenty years. This has produced a fully realized record that further cements the band’s refusal to be pinned down by category or genre. The record is pressed on 180-gram black pure virgin vinyl, packed in in a 3mm-spined sleeve on 300gsm GC1 board w/ reverse print, printed on 170gsm uncoated paper, all in a white polylined inner sleeve, with an insert containing lyrics and a download coupon for the whole album in mp3 format included. [Exile On Mainstream]