ethanpricington

HELL. YES. New Webbed Wing album - Vol. III - just announced via Memory Music. Out July 12, 2024. Pre-order is live homies: https://memory-music.net/products/webbed-wing-vol-iii-pre-order Two new singles up:

It's so god damn good. The boys are back! Pre-ordered with the swiftness

@veggiecorecords

Nearly 6 years later, we're finally getting a new TSSF album - I Want To Disappear - on June 21st. New single released and pre-orders are live: https://purenoise.merchnow.com/collections/the-story-so-far 500 - PN1 - Orange, Blue & Bone Aside/Bside w/ Black Splatter *SOLD OUT* 1500 - PN2 - Black in half Milky Clear / Half Bone w/ Orange & Blue Splatter 1500 - US Indie Retail - Coke Bottle Clear w/ Orange Splatter 6500 - Target - Bone and Sea Blue Pinwheel w/ Black Splatter 500 - Banquet - Bone & Royal Blue Pinwheel 500 - Hot Topic - Neon Green & Bone Pinwheel 500 - Newbury Comics - Bone in Milky Clear w/ Sea Blue Splatter 500 - Hard Times - Bone/Black/Royal Blue Tri-Stripe 500 - Revolver - Orange Crush & Black Butterfly 500 - Impericon - Clear & Black Spinner 500 - Band - Half Bone/Half OxBlood w/ Black Splatter 4000 - Standard Retail - Milky Clear w/ Black, Blue & Orange Splatter 1000 - Deluxe Book - Milky Clear w/ Black Smoke

Cardinal = 5.5/10 Deeper Well = 6/10 Too Good to be True = 6.5/10 Moving Out = 6/10 Giver / Taker = 8.5/10 Sway = 6/10 Dinner with Friends = 5.5/10 Heart of the Woods = 6.5/10 Jade Green = 6.5/10 The Architect = 9/10 Lonely Millionaire = 7/10 Heaven Is = 8/10 Anime Eyes = 7/10 Nothing to be Scared Of = 7/10 Overall Average = 6.7 Lol. Pitchfork gave it a 6.8, the average i came up with was exactly 6.78, so yea, makes sense. Overall, I enjoyed this album much much more than star-crossed. But it still fell short of my expectations of her 'returning to form'. "Deeper Well" and "Too Good to be True" would've gotten higher scores if that damn vocal treatment choice would've been non-existent. I feel like Kacey has such a beautiful voice. No effect at all is needed imo, with maybe some reverb at the very most (see the latter tracks). And although a bit cheesy here and there, the collective spiritual vibe is ok, didn't bother me like it may others.

Of course I'd get super excited to see early Wednesday morning a shipping notification from Interscope for the Spotify variant I pre-ordered...yet...it still showing in the 'label created' stage with FedEx today 😑 That's honestly why, for artists I know should have an indie variant at my local shop on release day, I'll just pick it up then. Idk why, if product is in-hand, that they're not shipping it at least 3-4 business days ahead of time. Who gives a shit if someone rips it to the internet early. Does that even make anyone mad anymore????

The very beginning had me a bit scared. And then it kicked in and was like 😯

Wait, is it 2014 again? Sending out the bat-signal for @travisto make a triumphant return lol

New album Clancy just announced. Dropping May 17. Pre-order is live. I'm sure this will have a ridiculous number of variants. https://store.twentyonepilots.com/?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.twentyonepilots.com%2F&intcmp=240229%2Ftwentyonepilots%2Ffbr%2Fhp%2Fs_hp%2Fbut%2Fbdy%2Fww%2Fhomepage-clancy-merch-pre-order-button

New album just announced and pre-orders below. Dropping May 10th: https://purenoise.merchnow.com/collections/knocked-loose New single too:

Locked in for Collective Soul & Duncan Sheik (it's my childhood, fucking sue me). Will probably pickup Paramore, Buena Vista Social Club, maybe even Blessid Union of Souls... 🙊

List is officially live: https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases?view=all

https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/11079

My first impression seeing that album artwork? *puke* 'God this is bound to be horrible'... Then I listened to the single. Wow. That was great. Was energetic. Eddie sounded great. Enjoyed the melody and song structure. Hand up - I'm not a huge PJ fan (other than their early 90's stuff), so I haven't paid attention to really anything they've put out this century. Is this a 'return to form' or in line with their recent stuff? Honestly, I'm just peeved that I'm going to have to buy this record when it comes out and this artwork is so damn bad.

And...the first official release of RSD 2024 announced... Coming April 20, 2024 to record stores, a "mini" celebration of The Beatles' historic Ed Sullivan appearances, sixty years ago. A revamped mini-turntable, and 3" records for four of the songs they played on that explosive television moment. The Beatles 3" turntable package comes fully equipped: Ability to stream vinyl via external speakers with the built-in Bluetooth transmitter ● Pre-mounted AT3600L moving magnet cartridge. ● Full-size turntable features like adjustable pitch control, a clear dust cover, headphone jack, and post adapters for large-hole records. ● Aux output with RCA conversion cable included ● Four 3-inch Beatles releases with unique, collectible artwork ● Matching record carrying case that can hold up to ten 3-inch records Each 3" single, " Want to Hold Your Hand," "Till There Was You," "Saw Her Standing There,’" and "She Loves You", also sold separately

New Vampire Weekend album announced for April 5th release date and up for pre-sale: Retail = standard cover + black vinyl Webstore Exclusive = standard cover + clear vinyl https://vampireweekend.store/ Indie = alt cover + black vinyl https://www.roughtrade.com/en-us/product/vampire-weekend/only-god-was-above-us#vinyl-lp-black-x2 Spotify Fans Exclusive = standard cover + silver vinyl https://kf-merch.com/products/god-was-above-us-spotify-vinyl-lp

Brain fart. I was talking about the webstore (I guess just retail) variants. Hadn't seen what the indie was like...

Hahahaha same. Plus I liked that variant mockup more than the indie's. Though I'll probably grab a copy of that at my local on release date too. Ms. Musgraves is a top artist for me and my wife. We enjoyed the new single 1000x more than anything off Star-Crossed. Looking forward to the entire record.

Nice! Picked up a few things off the recent release wantlist that my locals didn't have. Always happy to support you guys!

Hahaha yea that's insane. I'm not paying nearly 50% of the cost of the record for shipping when I can just get it later at my local. That said, can't wait. Hope this is a return to form as i really didn't like star-crossed.

The first single was meh. 2nd one was much more tolerable. But this one? I straight up love this one.

I've been selling to my local shop a lot more for store credit. Since I was primarily using Discogs money to just buy more records anyways, i figure, why not help my shop out and get some moolah in the process. They're also really reasonable with they're offers mostly, so I'm good with it.

Someone refresh my memory, this is getting released to record stores right?

@AlexH.Thanks for that! I started collecting in summer 2014 and believe I joined VC shortly thereafter, so I was completely unaware of the virgil-saga lol