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So out of the blue my order showed up today. It was also the tour variant /1000. Really bummed out about it, but also not sure what to do about it. I might give them a call and see what they say, because that's a pretty blatant con if they advertised the /300 and just sent everyone the tour variant.

Ugh, this is not what I wanted to hear. I haven't even gotten a shipping notification for this yet, though. I assume you got rush shipping (and you ordered on Monday)?

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Thank you!! Just grabbed one.

This is really good. One of very few post-rock/post-metal releases that have caught my attention recently. Double vinyl from EU at ~$28ppd not too bad either. FFO: Ashbringer, Braveyoung, Light Bearer https://ingrina.bandcamp.com/album/etter-lys

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Can confirm

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Shaking things up a little bit. Prices are PPD, but you must buy at least $20 worth for me to ship. I feel like I've priced these fairly but if something looks outlandish I'm open to offers. 12" A Lot Like Birds - No Place - 2nd press bluish green /400 - $20 Arktika - Symmetry - half clear/white - $10 Artifex Pereo - Passengers - milky clear - $!5 Aviator - Head in the Clouds, Hands in the Dirt - half red/half white w/splatter /600 - $10 Astralia - Atlas - clear blue w/black smoke /100 - $25 Balmorhea - Constellations - black (~2" seam split on cover) - $10 Banner Pilot - Collapser - black - $10 Being as an Ocean - How We Both Wondrously Perish - jet black /1000 - $20 Bright Like the Sun - S/T - white - $10 Calculator - This Will Come to Pass - black w/pre-order cover /50 - $15 The Calm Blue Sea - S/T - black (G+/VG condition, some cover wear) - $10 Cara Neir - Portraits to a Better, Dead World - black - $5 Comrades - Safekeeper - blue /100 - $10 Direwolves - Me From Myself, to Banish! - milky clear #/500 - $5 Do No Harm - And I Am Now Played Out - single-sided black - $5 Fall of Messiah - Empty Colors - clear blue - $15 Fjort - D'Accord - white /425 - $15 Hands Like Houses - Unimagine - white /300 - $25 Haze - Clouds Surround and Breathe - gray/white marble #/250 - $10 Heartless Breakers - The Great Give Back - aqua marble /100 - $10 Hit the Lights - Summer Bones - three color stripe /500 - $5 I Call Fives - S/T - blue w/yellow splatter /200 (VG+, some finger marks on inner sleeve) - $10 Jakob - Solace - 2nd press black /350 - $90 La Parade - Voces Del Exilio - black /100 - $5 Mohican - The Abuse is Character - black lathe #/30 - $30 Moving Mountains - Pneuma - reissue white /200 w/screenprint - $20 No Tide - Death of the Sun - Purple w/splatter /200 - $10 Prawn - Ships - light gray marble /100 - $15 Ranges - The Ascensionist - bone/milky clear smash #/125 - $45 Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines... - 3rd press "red sun" /500 - $25 Show Me A Dinosaur - S/T - crazy smash/splatter #/100 - $55 Sisters Of... - The Serpent, the Angel, and the Adversary - clear /300 - $10 The Sky Above and Earth Below - Parting Ways - black /500 - $5 Sleep In. - Settling - ocean blue #/100 - $25 Sparrows - Cold Ground - clear w/brown splatter /200 - $5 State Champs - The Finer Things - white w/blue and orange splatter /300 - $35 State Champs - Around the World and Back - half gray/clear w/splatter /500 - $35 Tentacles - Ambivalence - black - $5 This Will Destroy You - S/T - 9th press black (no inner sleeves, tape on cover - still plays quiet and clean, however) - $10 Traditions - Cycles - single sided white /100 - $5 Underoath - Erase Me - smartpunk clear w/splatter #/300 - $15 Winter Dust - Autumn Years - clear blue /250 - $10 The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation - red /3000 - $15 10" Acres - Solace - white w/blue and gray splatter /100 - $25 Firestarter - Forget the Past - ginger /100 - $5

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I mean, after seeing the track times, that maybe they should've split this into a 2xLP. A 47 minute album means that a single LP averages 23 minutes and change per side, and several record manufacturers explicitly refuse to cut a side longer than 20 min because the sound quality starts falling off sharply once you exceed it. There are exceptions, but that's a general rule.

I don't regret not getting in on the group buy, but this album is phenomenal, mostly due to the awesomeness of the last four tracks. The first half kinda drags, in my opinion - this is definitely a band with a sound that works better with longer songs. Very curious to hear about the sound quality considering this album is ~47 minutes.

I listened to most of this yesterday, and loved what I heard. Obviously gonna need a few more plays to digest but first impressions were very positive.

I actually like the cover a lot. Very excited for this!

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Not sure how many people have already seen this, but I Hear Sirens is pressing their S/T EP for its 10th anniversary. One of the most solid post-rock bands ever in my opinion - for some reason they just never made it big. Hopefully this means that we'll see a press of Beyond the Sea... before too long. https://www.whiskeyandwaxrecords.com/store/*PRE-ORDER*-I-Hear-Sirens-EP-10th-Anniversary-Edition-p104993959

I listened to it once through the other day. I thought it was more of the same, maybe a step down from IV, but still extremely engaging and worthy of standing up to earlier material. I'm surprised you don't like IV! In the back of my mind I always pegged you and I as having very similar tastes, but I think IV is probably their best, along with II.

I may have said this on the New Topographics thread but I'll say it again: I think that record has aged better than almost any other post-rock album in recent memory. Sure, there were songs like "The Dreams..." that I knew were gonna be personal classics from the first listen-through, but almost every other track has gotten better and better every time I've gone back to the album. Such a bummer that the pressing quality was so bad - my black copy is almost unlistenable.

Beat me to it! Very, very excited for this. Definitely one of my most anticipated of the year.

Pre-orders up! http://merchnow.com/catalogs/gatherers

Gravity and Grace was also tops for me in 2016. First single from this was epic, didn't hear the second one yet but I'll probably just wait for the whole thing at this point.

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Just finished my first listen through and yeah, this album jams. Favorite is probably "Heaven's Gate" but there really aren't any weak songs, except maybe the title track.

Don't quote me on this, but I'm pretty sure that S/T is a new album. The Moment of Collapse newsletter said about a month ago that there was a new album coming out soon, but no other info. I don't want to start a thread and then be wrong, though, so we'll see...