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I have the sudden hankering to buy some garnier fructis shampoo.

Well, well, well. These guys just rolled in. Huge shoutout to Red Creek for the amazing packaging job. First time ordering through them and I’m more than impressed. All 7 copies are flawless, not a single corner ding across the entire set. They were stacked inside a thick mailer that sort of folded into 2 more mailers for a triple-layer fort of cardboard. I have never received an international group buy in such good condition. All variants are accounted for, too, if the stickers on the shrink are to be believed. I wasn’t expecting them to show up so soon, and have plans for today / this evening… so I’m sticking to my guns and committing to next weekend to have these all out. Packaging them up and labeling all your orders over the next few days. 👍

Foreign Hands - 'Lucid Noise' EP just dropped. If it wasn't $17 after shipping I'd scoop it. https://sharptonerecords.co/collections/shop-all

The Loneliest Time dropped today. It's so damn good. Pop perfection as always with anything & everything CRJ.

PREORDER ON 2LP/CD AT https://www.stickman-records.com/shop/elder-innate-passage/ https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/innate-passage Innate Passage is the sixth Elder full-length. It finds the mostly-Berlin-based band in the post-pandemic era as veterans at the forefront of a league of progressive and heavy groups working in large part under their influence; a stately presence as reliably forward-thinking as they are unpredictable in sound. They are among the most important acts of their mostly-still-emerging generation. Genuine leaders in style and expressive intention. Innate Passage is further proof why. In Spring 2020, Elder released their fifth album, Omens, and with it established a claim on their most prog-leaning interpretation of sprawling heavy rock and roll. Two years later, Innate Passage builds on many similar concepts, but outdoes its predecessor on every level of performance, weight of its impact, interplay between founder Nick DiSalvo and Mike Risberg’s guitars and keys, the now-settled-in drumming of Georg Edert – who made his debut on Omens – and bassist Jack Donovan’s tonal warmth underscoring the shimmer of DiSalvo’s leads. Says DiSalvo: “This record channels the surreal world we live in from a fantastical point of view, not super-literally, and how we as humans processed that; everyone on their own passage through time and space and whatever version of reality they chose for themselves. The phrase ‘Innate Passage’ appeared to me when writing the record. Passage and transition are necessary in the human condition and this process is intrinsic to us. All the growth and introspection we underwent in the past few years totally made this apparent to me more so than any other experiences in life so far.” “Catastasis” begins Innate Passage with a pointedly bright perspective and the most complex vocal harmonies that Elder have ever produced. Alongside DiSalvo, Innate Passage features a guest singer for the first time in Behrang Alavi (Samavayo), who adds his voice to what’s already a career performance for DiSalvo as a singer; his voice is more confident, has more presence, and more reach than ever before. That is but one way in which Innate Passage steps boldly deeper into this new era for Elder. Whether it’s a shredding lead in the culmination of “Endless Return” or the willfully patient, almost meandering, build into the crescendo and fade of “Merged in Dreams/Ne Plus Ultra,” Elder are poised as never before as they execute this material. In centerpiece “Coalescence,” they offer Opeth-worthy rhythmic intricacy and piano drama offset by crunching heavy guitar and twisting leads, and in “The Purpose,” they craft a wash of melody that is engrossing without sacrificing any clarity of the individual instruments that make it. As the album ends with soft guitar in an answer to the intro of “Catastasis,” the sense of wholeness that comes through is one more aspect arguing for Elder as singularly crucial. Innate Passage is a culmination of everything they’ve done before, and that’s reason to celebrate, but more, it is that after more than 15 years, they’re still pushing forward to places where neither they nor anyone they’ve influenced have yet gone. – JJ Koczan, Sept. 2022.

God damn, this is a great record. I was never really into this project despite their pedigree but damn, this one got me. It'll be on repeat for the next month for sure.

I'm glad you had a chance to see them! They are a ton of fun live. Band deserves to be massive

Pretty happy to see Scowl go back up, ordered one the other day. They were so good when I saw them live last week, and I was bummed they didn't have vinyl with them on tour.

i think they just put up unlimited quantity for a week to gauge how many to make for future variants when the album is actually announced.

Wow. This video is brilliant.

I feel like they are considering the current 1000 capacity venue as “smaller“ judging by the context.

Yep, same issues for me around not being able to quote and the notification issue as well. The issues are occurring for me on Chrome, Edge, and Safari - on my phone, work laptop, personal laptop, and personal computer.

ORDERED!

Imagine owning the regular version. Double pack 3AM vinyl is where it’s at. 🤓

Album continues to get better and better for me. So many people are snoozing on this record and band right now. Just letting everyone know that our order touched down into the US yesterday. FedEx provides an estimate of when it shows up, but it’s also getting flagged for “Operational Delays” and updating its status a bit slow. For example, I did not realize it was supposed to arrive by this evening. But now it’s slated for tomorrow night, despite being in Indianapolis and needing to arrive in California. I’ll believe it when I see it. Regardless, if you’ve been feeling restless or curious about what’s going on, know that we’re close… assuming the order wasn’t thrashed to oblivion, and contains what we ordered. Even if they showed up tomorrow evening, I doubt I will have everything labeled and packaged for a Saturday shipment, so you can realistically expect me to provide you each with a tracking number sometime next week, on or before 10/29. (It really depends on how stacked my afternoon meetings may get throughout the week.) Just being transparent and keeping everyone in the know. Thanks for your patience.

Black dogs is really good also if you haven’t checked it out. I’m listening to it now and I love it.

This morning I saw someone on FB state that they spoke with someone in the band after last night's show, and they said they won't be selling copies at the fest.

Dude if you're gonna keep trolling at least be funny

I mean, one is a recovering drug addict, one is recovering from cancer and one was in a plane crash and experienced third degree burns all over his body.

A question as old as time.