Mekons - Exquisite 9/29/24 AF Half of the songs were

Half of the songs were written in a room together and the second half via email (for obvious reasons)

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Packaged in a 12" with 8-panel accordion fold-out poster & digital download card

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It was the band's biggest selling album at the time

Mekons - Exquisite 9/29/24 AF Half of the songs wereVinyl LP pressing. Hunkered down and unable to record together, in 2020 The Mekons created a glorious digital chain letter of an album. Exquisite is a sprawling manifesto of connection and defance that deftly slides through fddle tunes, digi dub, freside ballads and urgent rock & roll. And that's just side A. The original recording plan was to have been the whole band in a room session in Valencia, Spain. When the pandemic rendered that impossible the