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Soul Bender
(2-CD Deluxe Edition)2025 JEM Records (CD/LP/Download)
+ Soul Bender Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc
2025 Ground Up Records (CD/ Download)
The Soul Bender Deluxe Edition* features the standard album with a full-length bonus disc (includes one new unreleased track, live-in-the-studio performances, original demos, alternate versions and the physical release of the four-song Strange Bird EP), plus an extensive pdf booklet download with band interviews and complete track-by-track analysis. Bonus disc exclusive to this store (not on streaming sites). * Online Store Exclusive!
Release Date: June 27th, 2025
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$25.99
Also available as Soul Bender (CD/ LP/ Download), Deluxe Edition* (CD/ LP/ Download) and Super Deluxe Edition* (LP + 2-CD Bundle / Poster)*Online Store Exclusive!
Has your soul been hacked by the modern world? If so, the new Grip Weeds album Soul Bender is just the salve you need. Emerging from their subterranean recording studio the House of Vibes, The Grip Weeds have delivered a tour-de-force with Soul Bender, their ninth full-length studio album and their first newly-recorded original tracks since 2018’s Trip Around The Sun.
The previously released Early Clues EP provided a three-song taste of what was to come from this new 12-song collection from JEM Records, which finds the band pushing their recording, arranging and songwriting skills into new and evocative territory. On Soul Bender, The Grip Weeds continue to expand: Musical and sonic experimentation abounds, resulting in a record that is bigger and more dramatic than ever; melodically inventive, yet accessible with lyrical imagery and hooks firing at you from all directions. Most impressive of all is that The Grip Weeds are entirely self-contained: From production, engineering, mixing and artwork, Soul Bender represents a complete and total vision of intent. If you like the fearless bold intensity of rock from the classic era yet reimagined for the 21st Century, Soul Bender is for you. Filled to the brim with uplifting choruses, playful melodies, and olympic levels of kick-assory, with one foot in the rock and roll glory days of yore and another hanging over the cliff of new possibilities, Soul Bender is the perfect umbrella for the unending storms of life.
Some Press
"What blows me away is that any of these three songs could be the best song on a great album... So if this is just the taster of what's to come, all I can say is wow!" –Faster And Louder (for Early Clues EP)
"All of the songs on Early Clues effectively display the love that The Grip Weeds feel for these classic genres, and their mastery at creating new music that not only celebrates them, but takes them in new directions, combining psychedelic rock, power pop, and modern rock." – John V's Eclectc Avenue
"One needn't be a forensics genius to hear that the Grip Weeds have a monster of an album cooking with the impending “Soul Bender. –Bob Makin, New Jersey Stage
Standard & Deluxe Album Track Listing
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1. Soul Bender
2. Flowers For Cynthia
3. Spinning The Wheel
4. Promise (Of The Real)
5. Conquer And Divide
6. Fragmented
7. Column Of Air
8. Gene Clark (Broken Wing)
9. Someone In Love
10. If You Were Here
11. Wake Up Time
12. Love Comes In Different Ways
Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc Track Listing
(subject to change)
1. Soul Bender (live-in-the-studio version)
2. Flowers For Cynthia (live-in-the-studio version)
3. Spinning The Wheel (live-in-the-studio version)
4. Promise (Of The Real) (alternate mix)
5. Conquer And Divide (live-in-the-studio version)
6. Fragmented (live-in-the-studio version)
7. Column Of Air (early version)
8. Gene Clark (Broken Wing) (demo version)
9. Your Love (demo version)
10. If You Were Here (original version)
11. Wake Up Time (original version)
12. Love Comes In Different Ways (demo version)
13. Earth And Sky (unreleased track recorded for this album)
14. Fragmented (LP version)
15. She Brings The Rain (2024)
16. Strange Bird (2024)
17. She Brings The Rain (German Single Remix)
18. Strange Bird (German Single Remix)