(SM-043 / GHR-198)

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(Co-released with  Ghost Highway Recordings)

The 3rd album “Charm” of Helsinki based The Empire Strikes was recorded during March/April 2018 in Magnusborg Studios, Porvoo. All the base tracks were recorded live, so the recording methods weren’t changed from the previous album “High Tide” (2017). Also lead vocals, strings, horns, and a vast majority of the backing vocals were done within the same 6-day lock out. Percussion and some additional backing vocals were recorded in The Empire Strikes’ rehearsal space.

“Charm” turns yet another page in The Empire Strikes’ coloring book and gives a whole lot more to the band’s catalog. The previous albums “1983” (2015) and “High Tide” (2017) certainly weren’t “genre” albums and “Charm” follows the same path. The album’s atmosphere varies from epic to tragic, happy-go-lucky to never-stop-rockin’, and everything in between. The Empire Strikes doesn’t want to be chained to a certain scene, or in any rock ‘n’ roll sub-genre. “Charm” is The Empire Strikes’ manifesto for the immortality of versatile rock ‘n’ roll.

Includes:

Side A:

  • The End
  • Danger
  • Blinded by the Light
  • Theme from Roky
  • Amor por la Vida hasta la Muerte
  • Tigerlillies

Side B:

  • Rainmaker
  • Blackheart
  • ‘lectric Voodoo
  • Miss Margaret Collins
  • Leeches, Lies and a Mighty Hoax
  • I found my Love

– 300 pressed total –

100 on white vinyl
200 on black vinyl

Released: September 6th, 2019