{"product_id":"concrete-blonde-bloodletting","title":"Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting","description":"\u003cp\u003eDark, romantic and dripping with gothic atmosphere, Bloodletting is the album that carried Concrete Blonde beyond Los Angeles cult status and onto mainstream radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReleased in 1990, the band's third album found Johnette Napolitano's smoky, wounded voice at its most commanding, framed by James Mankey's shimmering, effects-laden guitar. It balanced alternative rock bite with something more cinematic and haunted, landing right as college radio was crossing into the mainstream. The songs move between punchy, radio-ready rock and slow, smoldering ballads, and the sequencing gives each mood room to land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title track, \"Bloodletting (The Vampire Song),\" is a swaggering slab of bloodthirsty glamour, while \"Caroline\" and \"Days and Days\" show off the band's gift for brooding, slow-burning melody. \"Joey,\" a raw plea to a lover lost to the bottle, became their biggest hit, an aching ballad that still stops listeners in their tracks decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNapolitano writes like a poet with a switchblade, and the arrangements leave her plenty of room to rage, whisper and mourn, sometimes within a single verse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt remains a cornerstone of late-night alternative listening, equally at home beside goth classics and smoky torch songs, and a natural fit for everyone who has ever found comfort in a sad song played loud.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57287063011633,"sku":"602557746815","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Concrete_Blonde-Bloodletting.jpg?v=1793727334","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/concrete-blonde-bloodletting","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}