Larkin Poe - Run for Your Money - Non-Album Tracks (2017-2018)

I'm bummed that I feel obliged to make this album, because this truly is an album that shouldn't exist. I'm a big fan of Larkin Poe, as can be seen by the way I keep posting their music alongside many of the greatest musicians of all time.

But they're not nearly as popular as they should be. I think a big reason for that is that they keep making terrible decisions over how to release their music to the public. Earlier in their career, they had a strange habit of releasing only EPs, releasing six in a row! EPs don't get noticed and reviewed the way full albums do, so that's strange. More recently, they released "Reskinned" in 2016, half of which was the exact same recordings of the same songs on their previous albums. Then they released "Peach" in 2017, and "Venom and Faith" in 2018. Both are excellent albums, but both are just over 30 minutes long. (Note that I "fixed" "Reskinned" in a previous post by adding a bunch of unreleased original songs that are different than any of these songs.)

Why, for the last three albums, have they released albums that are short? It leaves the impression that they don't have enough material, but that's not true. Witness this album, which is made up entirely of songs they have been playing in concert since at least before the recording of their most recent album, and all but two of the songs are originals ("Rollin' and Tumblin" and "Never Been to Spain"). Why haven't these songs been included on album?! To my ears, this album is just as good as either of their last two albums. The song quality can be seen by the fact that they play many of these songs in concert a lot. In fact, according to setlist.fm, a few are some of their most played songs.

If there ever has been a recent band sabotaging their popularity by poor choices about how to release their music, it's this band! Hopefully, this album will help ameliorate that somewhat. Hopefully also many or most of these songs will end up on their next album. If so, I'll take this post down to help with their record sales.

By the way, I've included one song only as a bonus track, in part because it's a cover and in part because the crowd noise means the sound quality is a notch below the rest of the album (which, by the way, has excellent sound). It's a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs." Like most of the songs on this album, they're in full rocking mode.

01 Run for Your Money (Larkin Poe)
02 Might as Well Be Me (Larkin Poe)
03 Dark Matter (Larkin Poe)
04 Poor Folk (Larkin Poe)
05 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Larkin Poe)
06 Summertime Sunset (Larkin Poe)
07 Black Echo (Larkin Poe)
08 Atomic No. 33 (Larkin Poe)
09 Breaking Me Up (Larkin Poe)
10 Never Been to Spain (Larkin Poe & Mark Agnesi)

War Pigs (Larkin Poe)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15262098/LarkinP_2017-2018_RnforYourMoney_atse.zip.html

For the cover, I found a 2018 photo of Larkin Poe (i.e., Rebecca and Megan Lowell - Rebecca is the one looking forward), but I replaced a blah all-white background with something more interesting.