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WINK

Name: WINK
Brand: CHAI
SKU: chaiwink-exclusives
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WINK is can’t-miss Japanese quartet CHAI’s third full-length album, and their most minimal and mellow album to date. We have it here on red and white swirl vinyl.

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Exclusive Features

color	Red and White Swirl
foil stamped	Yes
numbered	Yes

Other Features

exclusive	VMP Exclusive
extras	Insert with English lyric translations
jacket style	Direct-To-Board
jacket type	Single
label	Sub Pop
mastering engineer	Greg Calbi
mastering studio	Sterling Sound
pressing location	Record Technology Incorporated (RTI)
release type	New Release

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2021

original release year

33¹/₃

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1000

total pressing quantity

inch

vinyl size

standard

weight

Description

WINK contains CHAI’s mellowest and most minimal music, and also their most affecting and exciting songwriting by far. WINK is a fitting title then: a subtle but bold gesture. A wink is an unselfconscious act of conviction, or as CHAI puts it: “A person who winks is a person with a pure heart, who lives with flexibility, who does what they want. A person who winks is a person who is free.” YUUKI noted that “With this album, we’re winking at you. We’re living freely and we hope that when you listen, you can wink and live freely, too.

CHAI came to see WINK—with its home-y feel—as a collection where each song is like a new friend, something comforting to rely on and reach out to, as the album was for them throughout 2020. This impulse towards connection is in WINK’s title, too. After the “i” of PINK and the “u” of PUNK—which represented the band’s act of introducing themselves, and then of centering their audiences—they have come full-circle with the “we” of WINK. It signals CHAI’s relationship with the outside world, an embrace of profound togetherness. Through music, as CHAI said, “we are all coming together.” In that act of opening themselves up, CHAI grew into their best work: “This album showed us, we’re ready to do more.”

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Tracklist

LP 1 / Side A

Donuts Mind If I Do

Maybe Chocolate Chips (feat. Ric Wilson)

ACTION

END

PING PONG! (feat. YMCK)

Nobody Knows We Are Fun

LP 1 / Side B

It’s Vitamin C

IN PINK (feat. Mndsgn)

KARAAGE

Miracle

Wish Upon a Star

Salty

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Major Arcana (10th Anniversary)

Speedy Ortiz

Echoes (20th Anniversary Edition)

The Rapture

Keep it Hid (15th Anniversary Edition)

Dan Auerbach

SHOP

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What an enormous room

Torres

The Spirit of Christmas

Ray Charles

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What an enormous room

Torres

Tougher Than Leather

Run-D.M.C.

Ode to Billie Joe

Bobbie Gentry

SHOP

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$5 at the Door

Sublime

The Lemon of Pink

The Books

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The Story of Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records

The Story of Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

The Story of the Grateful Dead 2nd Edition

Grateful Dead

SHOP

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