CD packaging includes a custom-built case wrapped board-stock cd wallet housing a metallic spot glass printed cd sleeve and a 2-panel card-stock insert. It's a different place than it was two years ago, when Atmosphere released their last record, Fishing Blues. Their seventh album, Mi Vida Local, reflects the ways in which the world-and their place in it-has changed. The idyllic domesticity of the past few records has morphed into anxiety over keeping loved ones safe during turbulent times. The easygoing collaboration between Ant and Slug has started to feel more like the life-or-death intimacy of two men trapped together on a lifeboat. At times, Mi Vida Local is a heavy album, ("I might be the last generation of grandparents," goes a key line from ... read more