Muna: Muna Vinyl LP Muna

“MUNA is magic. What other band could have stamped the forsaken year of 2021 with spangles and pom-poms — made you sing (and maybe even believe) that ‘Life’s so fun, life’s so fun,’ during what may well have been the most uneasy stretch of your life? ‘Silk Chiffon,’ MUNA’s instant-classic cult smash, featuring the band’s new label head Phoebe Bridgers, hit the gray skies of the pandemic’s year-and-a-half mark like a double rainbow. Katie Gavin, MUNA’s lead singer and songwriter, wrote ‘Silk Chiffon’ right after finishing the band’s 2019 album, Saves the World. Since the beginning of their career, MUNA has embraced pain as a bedrock of longing, a center of radical truth, a part of growing up, and an inherent factor of marginalized experience — the band’s members belong to queer and minority communities, and play for these fellow-travelers above all. But in ‘Silk Chiffon,’ there was just longing, and it was blissfully requited at that. ‘It’s kind of a smooth-brain song,’ Gavin says. ‘Saves the World was therapy on a record, and I was starting to see changes in my life, more moments of joy. It’s a big deal that someone like me could write that smooth!’ Now in their late twenties, the trio has become something more like family. They spent much of the early pandemic as a pod, showing up for each other and for MUNA — a project that at this point feels bigger than them — even when they weren’t sure about anything regarding the future. They’d been dropped by RCA, and there was little in terms of income, no adrenaline to work off of, no live shows with audiences reminding them of the succor their songs provide. They asked each other: Is this career even feasible in this new reality? Can we find a way to be self-motivated, to be fulfilled intrinsically? MUNA, the band’s self-titled third album, is more than a return. The band’s period of uncertainty and open questioning burned everything away, leaving a feat of an album — the forceful, deliberate, dimensional output of a band who has nothing to prove to anyone except themselves.” – Jia Tolentino

• 3rd studio album, includes ‘Silk Chiffon’ featuring Phoebe Bridgers
• black vinyl pressing
• indie exclusive
• printed inner sleeve
• digital download included
• music label: Saddest Factory Records 2022