The Districts

The Districts – You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:00 minutes | 916 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
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Debut track from The Districts upcoming 4th album ‘You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere’ – in stores March 13, 2020 – mixed by Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips) – Rob Grote, from the Districts discusses the album, saying “You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere is an unachievable promise,” says The Districts bandleader Rob Grote. “It’s about a dream for love to last forever and a yearning to postpone death. It is about wanting to escape everyday life while also craving time with one who’s present. It’s a plea to remain the same in the face of constant change, and the certainty of going nowhere fast.”

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The Districts – Popular Manipulations (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:21 minutes | 446 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Garage Rock
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In their excellent third album, the Districts approach rock ’n’ roll with an energy reminiscent of early Arcade Fire records. For Popular Manipulations, the 4-man group from Pennsylvania stepped it up a gear, perfecting their sense of melody and the writing of their choruses. To make this 2017 cuvée even tastier, the Districts invited John Congleton (producer of St. Vincent, Angel Olsen, Kurt Vile, Modest Mouse, Goldfrapp, Cloud Nothings, among many other Rolls Royces of the musical scene) to step behind the mixing console. There’s enough there for Rob Grote’s crew to take another step and beef up their indie rock without selling their soul. A pleasant surprise indeed.

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The Districts – Great American Painting (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:13 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fat Possum

Great American Painting is the rare album that shines a bright light on all that’s wrong in the world but somehow still channels a galvanizing sense of hope. With equal parts nuanced observation and raw outpouring of feeling, the Philadelphia-based band confront a constellation of problems eroding the American ideal (gentrification, gun violence, the crushing weight of late capitalism), ornamenting every track with their explosive yet elegant breed of indie-rock/post-punk. Threading that commentary with intense self-reflection, Great American Painting ultimately fulfills a mission The Districts first embraced upon forming as teenagers in small-town Pennsylvania: an urge to create undeniably cathartic music that obliterates hopelessness and invites their audience along in dreaming up a far better future.
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