Headphones (20th Anniversary) Headphones- Opaque Yellow Vinyl Record +7"

LIMITED TO 750 COPIES PRESSED ON YELLOW VINYL

+ LP INCLUDES BONUS 7" ON BLACK VINYL WITH TWO BONUS TRACKS

+ BONUS TRACKS INCLUDE: "THE FIVE CHORD - 2025 remaster" and "GAS AND MATCHES (ACOUSTIC) - 2025 remaster"

In 2005, Headphones marked a seismic shift in David Bazan’s formidable canon—a collection of synth-driven confessions that pushes narrative songwriting boundaries. Stripped down to its essentials, the album features Bazan with Tim Walsh and Frank Lenz creating a raw soundscape: no guitars, just synthesizers, live drums, and Bazan’s unmistakable vocals. Twenty years later, it remains a masterwork of emotional excavation and geopolitical reckoning, still relevant. This 20th Anniversary edition, remastered by Christopher Colbert at National Freedom, comes in a gatefold jacket with expanded artwork by Grammy-nominated designer Jesse LeDoux and liner notes by Belmont University Associate Professor David Dark. The self-titled album threads a delicate needle, balancing personal and prophetic themes. Songs like “Major Cities” address American imperialism with clarity and anger, while “I Never Wanted You” reveals interpersonal defeat. These stories of collapse show bullies wreaking havoc but are rendered with humanity. Even in its darkest moments, Headphones pulses with hope that honesty may light a way forward—if we bear witness to the truth.On its twentieth anniversary, Headphones feels vital. For those who’ve lived with it since 2005, this reissue offers a chance to revisit an old wound and reflect on what’s healed and what still aches. For new listeners, it’s an opportunity to engage with something audacious and true—an album that invites us to reckon with our failures and our potential to be good. Twenty years on, Headphones remains a rare album that doesn’t just speak to you, but asks you to listen harder.