Els Amics De Les Arts
Bed & Breakfast (special edition vinyl)

Listening notes

Els Amics de les Arts released this special edition vinyl pressing of Bed & Breakfast on Pistatxo Records in 2025. The release carries no catalog number. Across its sixteen tracks, the album spans a considerable runtime, with the sequence moving from the opening "Jean-Luc" through a range of titles that suggest the band's characteristic tendency toward literary and cinematic reference — "L'home que va matar Liberty Valance" nods to the 1962 John Ford western, while "Tren transiberià" and city-named tracks such as "Liverpool" and "Reykjavík" continue a thread of geographic imagination that has appeared elsewhere in the group's catalog.

The record is classified under indie pop and pop. All lyrics and titles appear in Catalan, with one exception: the closing track "Umi o koete, yama o koete," whose title is rendered in Japanese transliteration. The title track, "Bed & Breakfast," appears at position twelve and is among the shorter entries at two minutes and twenty-eight seconds. The longest track on the pressing is "Armengol," at seven minutes and twenty-three seconds, placed at position eleven.

Notably, the special edition includes a live recording: "La merda se'ns menja (en directe)" appears at position fifteen, following the studio version of the same title at position six. That studio version runs three minutes and forty seconds; the live take extends to three minutes and fifty-six seconds.

The sixteen-track sequencing and the inclusion of a live cut suggest this vinyl edition offers material beyond what a standard release configuration might contain, though the specific circumstances of that distinction are not detailed in the available documentation. Collectors and listeners interested in Catalan-language indie pop will find this a substantive release by one of the more prominent bands working in that space.