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It's April fools my dudes

Tragic Hero just threw these up out of nowhere. Long out of press and their best work in my opinion. Get em' while you can: https://www.merchbucket.com/collections/he-is-legend

https://linktr.ee/cavein this just dropped

I'd like to second this.

I wish that variant was real cause it’s rad. Haha.

Was just thinkin this was an actually fun clever one for an april fools joke. But it turns out the pressing is real, and the joke was the shipping price 😕

Lungfish - Rainbows From Atoms on translucent Orange. I'm opting for the Bandcamp link since it's a BC Friday and I can get that FLAC drip. https://www.dischord.com/release/078/rainbows-from-atoms https://lungfish.bandcamp.com/album/rainbows-from-atoms

Just posted this in the Dopesmoker thread.

https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/third-man-records-announces-vault-package-52-sleep-dopesmoker

"Keep my label's name out yo' fuckin' mouth!!"

Numero says fuck you this time. https://numerogroup.com/products/together

I just stumbled upon the new Municipal Waste PO at Nuclear Blast USA - https://shop.nuclearblast.com/en/shop/item/groups/192526.pre-orders.html

LIGHTS - PEP album is out now but vinyl ships early August. Three variants announced so far: blue (artist exclusive), red (indie), and yellow (standard). Link to blue (limited to 5k) PEP Blue Vinyl – Lights (iamlights.com)

It sounds really fucking angry, as it should!

Nice, ordered both!

Chaos Moon and Panopticon over at Bindrune. https://shop.bindrunerecordings.com/

I’m seriously just going to be horrible with money my entire life.

Oh man. That was a blast from the past. I think I may have lost that photo a long time ago. And it was like 10-12 copies I think? Good times.

This is cool but I'm holding out for the fairy dust variant. 😜

More version here: that Orange/Black is only on the Nuclear Blast EU store and has a Spring20 code for 20% off making it about $35 shipped to the US https://www.municipalwaste.net/electrified-brain

I think the others went up at noon cst? Billy will probably put up an IG about it later today or tomorrow

https://riserecords.com/products/pup0turpbp-lp?ls=AFC9G_VqS-adiD9gETF8Iw spotify exclusive with screen printed cover /1000 Doubt I’ll double dip, maybe if I love the album but I’m just a few tracks in.

THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER!!! Just got my tix.

I'm with you on EIP being too busy sometimes. I enjoy it, but I enjoy Effloresce and Frames much, much, much more. There's more of a balance of calm to chaos on those, I guess. EIP is a lot of chaos. I have originals of all full lengths, and I have the remaster of Effloresce too. They're both good. I would say that the remaster is a bit of an improvement, it just sounds sturdier. The original is still enjoyable, but it's like you just went from a 320mp3 to a wav. The 320 was definitely enjoyable, but the wav is just a bit better. On another note, does anybody know why Mike says this: "The creatively lauded and commercially maligned sophomore album by Oceansize has, unbelievably, earned its self a reissue!"

just posted it in the third man thread @mcpherson123

https://thirdmanrecords.com/news/third-man-records-announces-vault-package-52-sleep-dopesmoker

DAMN SECOND YEAR IN A ROW!

Let’s gooooo!!!

I got the entire bundle in last week. I listened to deloused right away and it sounded sooo much better than the first round. I have since listened to Frances and Octahedron and I think they sound great. Very quiet pressings, good sound all the way through. I’d say oh pretty much on par with the clouds hill versions

i grabbed that photo off of reddit and mine haven't arrived yet. one comment on discogs says the quality is excellent though.

I caught that too. I believe it said "lightly remastered" so I'm guessing that means they attempted to refrain from deviating too far from the engineering notes/perceived qualities on the initial pressing's mastering parameters. I have an original of this and recently scored an original Effloresce. I don't recall anything particularly wrong with the mastering on my copy of EIP but its been a while since I've listened to it. Its a great album and checks pretty much all of my boxes for the type of music that it is but as an album, maybe its the sequencing, but I find it a bit less of a satisfying listen than Effloresce which for all of its greatness, isn't all that much different of an album compared to EIP. It feels overall a bit less busy than EIP but "busy" isn't necessarily a bad thing as I'm a pretty big TMV fan and it doesn't get much busier than that while still maintaining coherence. I guess Dillinger Escape Plan can come off much busier than either TMV or Oceansize at certain times. I also dig them but admittedly haven't spun anything by them in some time. Still, I know I have great fondness for EIP but I don't find myself going back to it that much. I played it excessively around early to mid-2008. Maybe I got my fill on replays but I still insist its part of "my music." I like Frames a lot but there is some sluggishness happening around the middle of that album that make it tough to get back into. I was super into it when it first released though. Now that I think about it both Frames and EIP were integral soundtracks to some very difficult and dark times of my life so maybe that accounts for why they are so difficult to revisit. Its only dawning on me right now that that could be the reason. Anyway, Oceansize, man. Great band.

100%, I see these people new to vinyl, in these FB groups going gung ho on trying to track down everything in the first month. I jUSt NeEd OnE oF EVeRyTHinG! Like, be patient, bands and labels are foaming at the mouth for your money, it will all be pressed again. Seeing these OpIvy records sell out in a few minutes and instantly worth $80 is wild. I've seen that record repressed twice in the last six months.

Rough Trade canceled an order I made in August because it had free shipping and then lied about it saying my card details were incorrect after trying 3 times. Never contacted during any of these 3 times either and I have orders placed a week later that went through fine. They say it's now impossible for them to replace the order and I have to do it, but there's no way to get the free shipping back. Fuck Rough Trade don't order from them they've completely tanked as a company since that disastrous record club circle shit.