***Jump Into Life, the lush and layered new album from Ray Aggs (Trash Kit, Shopping) and Eilidh Rodgers (Golden Grrrls), takes the roots of their Sacred Paws project and breathes fresh life into it, blossoming into something both abundant and more colorful than has come before—a gentle skewing of their signature sound that feels wildly thrilling. With their signature sense of fervor, Sacred Paws continue to hurtle forward, jumping into life, embracing that forward motion that stops lingering in the shadows of life’s messiness. Full of endearing energy and buoyed by new sounds, textures, and character, Jump Into Life is both a callback and an evolution, unafraid to reveal its warm and heavy beating heart, even with all the anxiety such a thing entails.
LP $25.25
03/28/2025
***CHECK STOCK!!! Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork. SACRED PAWS won the Scottish Album of the Year Award in 2017 for their debut record, Strike a Match. Winning felt “very weird” to guitarist RACHEL AGGS and drummer EILIDH RODGERS, whose aim had never been anything other than to make music they enjoyed. “To be like oh, ok, right—we have to believe in ourselves now?! It’s mildly challenging.” But if you thought that meant Run Around the Sun would be a po-faced follow-up rammed full of lofty pretensions, you’d be wrong. It brims with upbeat reflections on growing up and looking back. Shimmering guitar riffs dance between snappy beats and swooning melodies that will have crowds committing to far more than a simple head-bob.
LP $18.85
05/31/2019
CD $13.75
05/31/2019