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Must get because I listen to my three copies of the first soundtrack all of the... pretty much never.

Mine just showed. No warping or creasing at all.

Given the show’s setting, it seems like a missed opportunity to do a Kmart exclusive. Y’know, before they’re totally bankrupt. (Personally, an orange Orange Julius exclusive would have been my first pick over UO if I was the marketing guy.)

Got my yellow today. This is a hell of a record with a ton of emotional weight to it (not in a bad way). Up there with their best.

Hey everyone. Just wanted to post a shot of all of the currently available variants for anyone interested. Huge thanks to @Buffbloom for the tour variant!

Out July 26th 300 - PN Exclusive - Deep Purple/Bone A-Side/B-Side w/ Heavy Doublemint & Black Splatter 500 - Indie Retail - White and Deep Purple Pinwheel 250 - Tour - Half Black / Half White 1250 - Various - Ultra Clear w/ Heavy Olive Green and Black Splatter http://smarturl.it/SanctionNY

New LITE slaaaaps

Skaphe/Wormlust https://skphwrmlst.bandcamp.com/

They should have more up tomorrow. RevHQ will also have it and most definitely others.

Dude that's so thrashed! Is it even worth it!?!!!

I know man - I was a huge Cherry Vanilla addict, too.

Best fucking episode imo

You da real MVP. For some reason it has two clickable links for me, one connecting to USPS Tracking, one to UPS tracking. Strange.

Lame show.

I don’t think we did. Just a shit load of the really good ones.

I feel like bands like this are setting out to make “the most epic as possible” type records. And in turn makes many other things go untouched that really make a well balanced record.

Wait, since when did Walmart start doing exclusive vinyl? Things are getting out of hand.

Yeah seems likely. The press release just states “15 classic tracks,” as well as an original cast recording. The trailer for the season included Motley Crue's Home Sweet Home & The Who's Baba O'Riley so they will most likely be on it

Just finished watching AEWDON and wow... All I can say is I can't wait for them to be on TV. Most of the moves that were performed probably can't be done in WWE. A lot of piledrivers and moves that involved the head hitting first. Amazing stuff. I don't think I can watch WWE after this show. Although the Bray Wyatt Pee-wees playhouse character is pretty great. And the fact they brought the "hardcore" title back is a step in the right direction for some good entertainment.

I will shamelessly buy the inevitable Nine Inch Miley mashup 12” that gets released.

You aren't wrong with the Caspian worship. But I still love it. If you're going to copy a band, it might as well be Caspian. I'll tell you though, these songs fucking CRUSHED live. Like, CRUSHED. Seeing them on the main stage with the lights was a trip and a half. I call them "Bomb" post-rock, because they do these like, big explode-y detonations in the peak sections. Like just slamming on the open strings, dropping bombs haha. It was very fun live. Yeah i mean, we like what we like and there's no problem with that. We have to remember though that this is a business. Yeah, Dunk! is out to create community and all that good hippie love stuff, but at the end of the day.... they need to sell. They need to make money to keep things going. And judging from the rabid response that the merch tent gets at the festival, this shit sells. A lot. I mean, they've been able to open up their own pressing plant. Between Dunk! and A1KA, they've sold almost half of this first pressing, and Pillars is a small-ass band in the scheme of things right now. Look at Ranges. I love CJ and I love Ranges, but the music isn't breaking any new ground - it's just very well done post-rock, and they've managed to make it to a 3rd pressing that is now almost sold out as well. Their next album is looking to be a banger though, I'm very excited about it. But we can sit here and critique from our office chairs and our beds, but at the end of the day, this product (what Derek calls "dunk-core") moves units and generates interest. We'd all love for EVERY single release to be ground-breaking and fresh and super unique, but we're all human - we copy and steal and re-purpose and that's okay. I know that I don't fall in love with every release, and that's okay. I'll buy what I like, and leave what I don't. This Pillars album isn't my favorite either, but the dudes are kind as hell, genuine, and passionate. For their efforts and approach, they deserve to succeed. Especially with the success of Post. Festival - that's Nason from Pillars' brainchild, along with another buddy. The American Post-rock scene is taking off in large part due to the relationships between the A1KA, Post. Festival and Dunk! and think that's an absolutely beautiful thing. We talked about this on the New Musical Horizons radio interview we did at Dunk!. It was CJ, myself, David from Young Epoch and some other writer friends - we were asked if post-rock is dead and CJ was like "Fucking nope, I sell enough to make a living off of this, so no way" (in so many words haha). You guys also forget or don't really get to see that the scene is SO, SO different in Europe. They just support bands more over there, they go to smaller shows more often. It's just different. In America, we don't really give a shit about the arts or small bands - we really don't collectively make an effort to go see dive shows with 9 people. In Europe, that's the norm. I mean, I went to see Toundra before Dunk! last year in a mid-sized city in Belgium (Ghent) and there had to have been 500 people there. It was fucking wild. Ranges pulled about 100 people at their Hard Rock Paris gig last year, where here they'd get maybe 20 outside of their hometown. So, it's just a different place. To echo something I said earlier about Pillars being fun live, I think that's another element that is being forgotten - this stuff is very engaging in a live setting. For instance, I couldn't stand Wang Wen on record but their set at Dunk was enthralling. I fucking loved it. So, there's 2 realms to be considered I guess. I go to A LOT of shows, so I tend to listen to a record and think "Oh yeah, this would crush live" even if it's a bit tepid on record. This has happened to me a number of times, and it's gone both ways where I think some bands are better in the studio than on record - like Rosetta. I love Rosetta, but they've never quite really gotten me at a show to where their studio stuff gets me. Caspian is sometimes the same way, it depends. Other bands absolutely slaughter their studio stuff with the live show. So, it really depends. I would put Ranges in that category, because I feel like their songs just take on a bigger life on stage. Anyway, buy Cavum! XD XD XD

Its so bad. OK Computer Sessions is what I tagged it as.

Yeah, Dunk make a quality product, absolutely. Don’t own a ton from them but like you said, the live RC album is sublime and I’ve heard plenty of good things about their WLTS live record. (They did justice to the From Fathoms reissue as well.) The quality always justifies the price as far as I can tell. My lack of interest is specifically in what they curate, musically. And it’s not bad – any day of the week I’d prefer to queue up something from their webstore over most of what’s topping the billboards or Spotify. But man, it feels so derivative. And to dowse that fire even more, we have people who are clamoring and insisting that it’s profound, life-changing, truly fresh, massive riff, brilliantly composed post-rock... so time and time again, I’ll fire it up with an open mind and realize it’s Caspian lite or basic tremolo and crescendos. I’m over it. Not trying to shit on the people with complete Dunk collections or who gobble up this stuff. Gumbo will tirelessly defend it with “yeah I know it’s not groundbreaking but even if it’s Caspian esque I just love that shit, it’s transcending”. And it’s cool if that’s the mileage or experience that he or others get out of it. But for those of us who’ve gotten our fill of that formula for the last decade and need something more to retain our interest for an hour, I don’t think it’s unfair to voice that.

Googling "OK Minidisc" (ugh - thats what the fans went with?) may get you a link. I think theres a couple floating around 4chan too if you want to deal with that bullshit.

Same. Praying to jebus it's a good pressing.

Excited to hear what these guys do with a full length finally! Any merchlimited bundles planned to hit too @IanRees?

I heard this at the same time as Holy Fawn back in the fall last year, and thought @deafening had recommended it, but it was @scott_c on this thread page 77. I actually PO'ed a CS if you can believe that, ordered early September and arrived late November. I didn't hype them, being more obsessed with HF at the time, and smaller darkgaze bands I like don't seem to get a lot of traction with my friends. Until you mentioned Nothing and TW, I had sectioned them in with Keep, Threading, KW/Miserable and few noise bands -- so I had to give it another run through after paperwork. I would definitely agree with vocals being consistent with Nicky from earlier Nothing -- i.e. male, soft, throaty and buried. Doesn't change through this album. They are downtempo - but I don't have to adjust my whole brain to listen to Grivo vs. TW s l o w g a z e - whom I enjoy immensely. Track 2 has a riff that sounds like TW, and a slightly longer section of track 4 that also definitely hearkens TW chord progressions. That's all I heard of TW. (for TW, check out 1990's band Should: Feed Like Fishes album. Should be on vinyl) The guitars, except for the intro on Track 1, drumming, and overall song writing / composition seems significantly different that if Nothing and TW aren't your cuppa, but you like darkgaze, I'd give these guys a listen. There are longer tracks and agreed not a lot of variety as mentioned above, but it still grabs me enough to distract from being background music. Most likely will get this on vinyl, pleasantly surprised it actually got the vinyl treatment.

Help this man out

Hate to do this to those of you who don't have good luck with thrift stores, but I've been hitting that one with the good score a lot lately hoping for more from the same batch to come out and today I got first presses of Pink Floyd - Animals, and The Wall, Led Zep - The Song Remains the Same, and Queen - News of the World (and Kansas Leftoverture because I didn't have a copy, but it's nothing special).

To be clear, I NEVER expected this to ship, and honestly I'm kinda glad it didn't. RSD sucks in many ways, but it's the Patron Saint of Housing the Homeless compared to Amazon who deserves $0 off of Indie stores backs (says the hypocrite who buys any $12 Prime deal he's interested in). Hopefully I've caused an account based net loss onnall the 2 day shipping on $10 records I buy.

Gave my copy a listen today. Definitely lands much more firmly in the space rock side of Cave In, nothing too heavy and all clean vocals. The two singles that've been released are a pretty accurate depiction of what to expect. I liked it quite a bit based on the one listen and I'll probably come to appreciate it more with multiple revisits.

Christ almighty.

You should go back to the series, they are all different from each other and are way better than the first one.

We use 'em all the time so they don't just sit on a shelf. A lot of fun with guests over too. But yeah, as far as collectability goes, they are as dumb as anything else.

I personally think the best Black Mirror entry episode is White Bear. Captivating, a little scary, and sets the tone for what to thematically expect from the others.

Got mine this past weekend and third time through I'm enjoying it more and more, as expected a grower. Its slower pace overall and beautiful vocals contrast nicely with the harder riff tunes. I like the new Oh Hiroshima track. Will wait for the whole thing before buying vinyl though. To this day, when listening to RIF and "Richard D Anderson" comes, I swear it's Maserati.

HMV Vinyl Week 2019 Exclusives so far: https://www.hmv.com/music/hmv-vinyl-week-2019-first-exclusives-revealed https://www.hmv.com/music/hmv-vinyl-week-2019-more-exclusives-revealed

My Dine Alone arrived today .. I'm happy with what I got ... By the way: i could easily remove the PROBLEMS sticker and put it on a new outer sleeve

Yooo I'd also love to trade my Lullabies vinyl for something else that's way more valuable. Someone hit me up if they're interested in losing a trade and gaping themselves silly raw!

where's my boy s.carey at??

Good afternoon to ya VC. I'm in the middle of a cross-country drive and by the end of it I will have crashed on not one but two other VC'er's couches. Also I impulse bought a pass to Riot Fest cuz the lineup was so strong and the weekend pass was waaaaaaaay too cheap to pass up. Now I just gotta figure out how I'm gonna lodge in & get to Chicago when the time comes!

They played their 1st warm up show in Ramsgate last night, set list was:

Double or Nothing was absolutely incredible. Anyone watch it yet?

In any case, finally got the last color in yesterday so here's all of them together

I’m actually working in an interactive timeline that can be found here. https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/1239900/Aaron-West I will be updating it over the weekend or sometime next week to include the new album as well as correct a flaw I found. However, it is pretty accurate to date.

^ At first look, it's great. I wonder how long it will take for WWE to fuck it up.

Would love to see a repress of Nodes Of Ranvier S/T.