{"product_id":"pixies-bossanova-vinyl-lp-copy","title":"Thee Sinseers - Love Stories (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"aec-title-date\"\u003e9\/4\/2026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatching up with Thee Sinseers ahead of their new Colemine Records release, Love Stories, one thing becomes abundantly clear: this is not an LP that explores a neat and tidy love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe vision of love put forth on this record is full-spectrum. Think of the seminal 1993 East LA film Blood In Blood Out - three protagonists bound together through hardship, strife, and diverging roads, who ultimately circle back to reckon with why they remain. It's a similar story here. Love Stories isn't interested in the happy ending. It's interested in everything that comes before it, after it, and in spite of it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOf course, none of this is accidental. More than a new record, Love Stories is a portrait of a band that has finally grown into itself - one that knows exactly who it is and isn't shy about saying so. As Quiñones puts it: \"It's a solidifying statement of where we are now. This is our style.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBassist Christopher Manjarrez described that confidence as something you can hear: \"Everything was just that notch up.\" In contrast to Sinseerly Yours, which had developed organically from a four-piece into an eleven-member ensemble, Love Stories was built from the ground up as a collective effort - every role established before the band entered the studio. \"We went in knowing these are the roles that are gonna be played by these people,\" Quiñones says. \"Everybody was considered wholeheartedly in every arrangement aspect.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThat collective approach extended into the sonic choices themselves. Every member zoomed out - listening not just to their own parts but to the record as a whole, what Quiñones calls thinking like \"a beautiful painting\" rather than a collection of individual tracks. With that foundation in place, the band handed the final mix to engineer Kelly Finnigan. \"We could get so far with our opinions,\" Quiñones admits, \"but at the end of the day there's still 10 or 11 of us trying to figure out what's right.\" The band also leaned into earthier instrumentation - standup bass, guitars run through amplifiers for a warmer sixties-adjacent tone - pulling inspiration from wherever it presented itself, even the most unlikely of places. It's that cross-genre thinking that Quiñones sees as the record's defining quality. \"It didn't feel like we were making soul music at any point,\" he says. \"It felt like we were making our music.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut the sonic ambition of Love Stories only tells half the story. The band sought to capture something more honest than a highlight reel - showcasing the highs and lows of romantic relationships while expanding the frame to include the familial, the complicated, and the unresolved. On \"Let's Fall In Love (Again),\" Quiñones's protagonist pleads for a second chance before stopping mid-song to acknowledge his own role in the heartbreak - trading wishful fantasy for something far more honest. It's that kind of emotional candor that runs throughout the record. The band's parents appear in the album art, their own love stories folded into the record's visual identity, some of those stories still standing, others not. As Manjarrez puts it: \"Every single song title directs you down a different road of love - whether you win or lose.\" Quiñones wanted listeners to sit with that ambiguity. \"Love is never-ending,\" he says. \"It stretches beyond lifetimes. I want people to still be confused - I want it to be left like an open book.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTo achieve what they're reaching for, every member of Thee Sinseers has had to check their ego at the door - and mean it. \"The sense of ego is, in a weird way, non-existent when it comes to recording and writing,\" Quiñones says. \"We're all fans of each other at the end of the day.\" It's the kind of trust earned on the road, forged through years of shared miles and close quarters - and reflected in a lineup that welcomed new additions seamlessly, including expanded roles for familiar faces and string arrangements from newcomer Skip Heller that push the songs into new territory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eTRACKS:\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e Oh Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e Did Ya Know?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e Let's Fall in Love (Again)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e There She Goes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e Let 'Em Shine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e How Lonely Is Lonely\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e What Can I Do?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e Cry Baby\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e9\u003c\/span\u003e Minute By Minute\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e She Was in Love\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e11\u003c\/span\u003e While You Were Sleeping\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow long will shipping take?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rte__table-wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem is In Stock\/Inbound\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem is on Pre-Order\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem is on Backorder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrders will ship within 1 day of being available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrders will ship near or on release date, as they are checked in\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOrders will ship as they become available, and can often take about 2-12 weeks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thee Sinseers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48068261019806,"sku":"648564359082","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/8321\/8590\/files\/image_60d34771-d129-44a8-8498-a758ec5a6a89.jpg?v=1785474001","url":"https:\/\/soundslikevinyl.com\/products\/pixies-bossanova-vinyl-lp-copy","provider":"SoundsLikeVinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}