{"product_id":"ed-obrien-blue-morpho-vinyl-lp","title":"Ed O'Brien - Blue Morpho (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eEd O’Brien likes to quote a line from the great Kentucky poet and farmer Wendell Berry: “To know the dark, go dark.” It is the insight, after all, that ultimately led O’Brien from one of the darkest spans of his life to Blue Morpho, his absorbing second solo album. To wit, as soon as O’Brien’s solo debut was out, he heard its faults. That was April 2020, the month O’Brien turned 52 and the month the world began to reckon truly with what it meant to be shut down. O’Brien regretted that he’d waited so long to record those songs, putting them on pause for the better part of a decade to accommodate the schedule of his teenage band, \u003cstrong\u003eRadiohead\u003c\/strong\u003e. Some of its impulses had been lost in the gap, and there was only so much he could do to support his first album—Earth, released under his initials, EOB—as the world confronted catastrophe.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed for the iconic and magically iridescent butterfly O’Brien first encountered in Brazil, Blue Morpho is not some grand destination for O’Brien, not a finishing point. He speaks of the people with whom he made it as a new musical family, a group of compatriots he cannot wait to work with again. He is still learning how to write songs and trust the result, how to help lead a band toward his burgeoning vision. He is candid about the discrepancy between being in one of the world’s biggest bands and being one of rock music’s most lauded guitarists but also being a beginner again, a new songwriter and finally starting to figure out his approach. O’Brien will talk to you about faith and recovery, psychedelics and meditation, Wim Hof and wilderness, all avenues for continuing to grow. Blue Morpho is part of the same endless journey—going in the dark, emerging from it, and recognizing that, if we’re living at all, there will always be more darkness to navigate not too far up ahead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Incantations \u003cbr\u003e2. Blue Morpho \u003cbr\u003e3. Sweet Spot \u003cbr\u003e4. Teachers \u003cbr\u003e5. Solfeggio \u003cbr\u003e6. Thin Places \u003cbr\u003e7. Obrigado \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UpUcOeJ3I1U?si=6nND6oSbwGwY1Ho5\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ed O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Coloured Vinyl","offer_id":48771668410612,"sku":"TRANS955XX","price":74.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/a3660207475_10.jpg?v=1782352915","url":"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/products\/ed-obrien-blue-morpho-vinyl-lp","provider":"Flying Nun ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}