***Merge celebrates our long relationship with EAST RIVER PIPE by releasing their critically acclaimed fourth album The Gasoline Age on vinyl. Saluted by Rolling Stone as “the most gifted of the new loners,” F.M. CORNOG, aka East River Pipe, originally released The Gasoline Age in 1999. Named Album of the Year by both The New York Times and England’s The Independent, 
The Gasoline Age was inspired in large part by nighttime drives on New Jersey’s seedy Route 22. Automobile imagery appears throughout the album: cybercars, stolen cars, pimpmobiles. The cars all seem to carry with them a romanticism that emphasizes even further Cornog’s gift of creating a lyrical mood without tying his flights of fancy down to specifics. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl with printed inserts and a download featuring nine previously unreleased songs. (STREET DATE - 10/07/2014)