Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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"A pinnacle of the era now dubbed indie sleaze, Santigold’s 2008 debut was the soundtrack to smearing your eyeliner, scrolling Tumblr and dressing in grunge and glitz. The Santi White pictured on the cover of 'Santigold,' dead-eyed, gaze fixed on the viewer while she vomits gold, represents the epitome of the late-aughts aesthetic.
But White, performing as Santogold at the time, was not trying to be the poster child for anything other than her uncompromising art. “I just knew that I wanted to do whatever I wanted, because I hadn’t,” she said in a cover story for FADER the same year 'Santigold' was released. And what she wanted was to make 12 tracks that pushed her rock foundation — inspired by bands like the Cocteau Twins, the Smiths and the Pixies, according to that same story — to its limit, coating her punk bona fides in a glitter bomb of pop, reggae and dub sounds.”
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Package Details:
- 15th Anniversary Edition
- Booklet and Art Design by Santigold and Matt Meiners
- Art Print by Isabelle Lumpkin
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Video by Richard Edens // @richardedens
Vinyl Me, Please is a monthly record subscription for music lovers, by music lovers. There’s no algorithm: just people picking albums they think everyone should own and care about.
Get it here: bit.ly/454AezR
"A pinnacle of the era now dubbed indie sleaze, Santigold’s 2008 debut was the soundtrack to smearing your eyeliner, scrolling Tumblr and dressing in grunge and glitz. The Santi White pictured on the cover of 'Santigold,' dead-eyed, gaze fixed on the viewer while she vomits gold, represents the epitome of the late-aughts aesthetic.
But White, performing as Santogold at the time, was not trying to be the poster child for anything other than her uncompromising art. “I just knew that I wanted to do whatever I wanted, because I hadn’t,” she said in a cover story for FADER the same year 'Santigold' was released. And what she wanted was to make 12 tracks that pushed her rock foundation — inspired by bands like the Cocteau Twins, the Smiths and the Pixies, according to that same story — to its limit, coating her punk bona fides in a glitter bomb of pop, reggae and dub sounds.”
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Package Details:
- 15th Anniversary Edition
- Booklet and Art Design by Santigold and Matt Meiners
- Art Print by Isabelle Lumpkin
-
Video by Richard Edens // @richardedens
Vinyl Me, Please is a monthly record subscription for music lovers, by music lovers. There’s no algorithm: just people picking albums they think everyone should own and care about.
