Four Days in June: Vinyl LP

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Label: Ideé Fixe Records
Release Date: 10th July

Shabason & Krgovich present their version of the glovebox CD classic, the kind of album like a reliable REM or Neil Young album, features the kind of musical reliability you need for an agreeable trip. It's cosmic country with a sophistipop soul, its a melancholic slice of suburban life and the romance of normality. I love how soft and sweet Nick Krgovich's vocal is and gives me that same feeling I get listening to Arthur Russell or Paul Buchanan of Blue Nile. 

"Since their 2020 collaborative album, Philadelphia, Joseph Shabason and Nicholas Krgovich have been locked in a musical orbit that centrifugally extracts
beauty and grandeur from the lesser details of their daily lives. Across their joint discography, they’ve created a small universe where wry and melancholy
micro-moments quietly bloom into full-scale wonders of the heart. But where the pair’s previous mutual efforts showed them peering at pop songs from
tidepools of mutated adult contemporary and first-thought-best-thought poetics, Four Days in June snapshots an unself-conscious reach toward the kind of
CD era songcraft that lives in your car’s center console, always ready to be thrown on while life happens. It spiritually grafts its scope from heyday all-timers
like “Harvest Moon”, R.E.M., or K.D. Lang’s “Ingenue”, while winking at 90s pop country via flutters of pedal steel, banjo, and fiddle. Yet all of these inspirations
remain self-honest and unborrowed, modifying and underlining the crystal-clear sincerity that has come to define Shabason and Krgovich’s co-output. Four
Days in June is a document of its authors looking back on their lives half-passed, finding contentment with how things have unfolded. By that very same
process, Shabason and Krgovich manage to find quiet confidence in the most naturalistic version of their own creativity. Four Days in June was indeed born in
the summertime, as its title suggests. Spurred by the recruitment of pedal-steel player Ian McGimpsey, Joseph began summoning his tried-and-true core
lineup (bassist and keyboardist Bram Gielen, guitarist Thom Gill, and drummer Phil Melanson) to his Toronto studio before he was certain that Krgovich would
be able to trek from Vancouver. Nick was fresh off of producing a new album for Tsunami’s Jenny Toomey, and seemingly enjoying the mental space he found
when not preoccupied with music. Meanwhile, amid the stress and joy of parenting young kids, and the worsening Parkinson’s complications of his mother
(for whom his 2019 solo album Anne is named), Joseph was finding a buoy for day-to-day gravity by diving headlong into music-making.
Having borrowed its title-- half-candidly, half-lovingly-- from the 1993 album Five Days in July by Canadian alt-country icons Blue Rodeo, Four Days in June
aims its fond and hazy memories of yesterday’s pop-country toward a distinctive and truthful outcome free of smirk and subversion. Its out-of-character
influences give new dimension to the intimacy, snapshot poetry, emotional veracity, and spot-on musicianship that Shabason and Krgovich have sculpted
across their collaborative discography."