Mavis Staples "Sad and Beautiful World" COLOR:MARBLED VIOLET Over the course of IMPERA’s

Over the course of IMPERA’s 12-song cycle

His new album

Before all of the international touring and festival headlining and critical acclaim and Grammy nominations

with a sound that eschews metal's often myopic devotion to casting shadows

25TH is pleased to give Act of Tenderness its deserving wide release

Mavis Staples "Sad and Beautiful World" COLOR:MARBLED VIOLET Over the course of IMPERA’sGrim days call for fierce love. And Mavis Staples, one of the most enduring figures in American music, is laying it down. Sad And Beautiful World is the latest solo album from a national treasure and multigenerational talent. Produced by Brad Cook, Sad And Beautiful World spans seven decades of the American songbook a range nearly as vast as Mavis' career and includes reinventions of timeless songs by Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, Gillian Welch, Frank