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All original surprisingly (according the liner notes). Ace, Jeff, Bill, Sergio and Joe. Touring is a different story and I think Ace is vocals only for shows now if I’m not mistaken (no guitar).

I was thinking about that the other day. I never heard it, but thought if Craft used that, it would be a true remaster. I’m assuming they used WAV files or something, but I can’t speak for them. Too bad these labels and/or bands aren’t very transparent when it comes to sound quality and sourcing. 🤷‍♂️

This is on sale for a $13 (as well as other TEN merch) in both stores. 😎 https://riserecords.merchnow.com/products/v2/296759/lilac-pinwheel-lp https://merchnow.com/products/v2/296759/lilac-pinwheel-lp

They have a new EP out now called ‘Supermoon’. The songs were written for their last record, but left off (way more guitar). ‘Heaven’ is on it too. Vinyl ships early 2020. PO link I love their first LP, but not so much the second. However, I might give it another try. It’s been on Amazon for cheap lately ($15)

I don’t think anyone is comparing this one with the S/T. That one is classic and stands in its own. It’s just nice to hear a band that started in that era to be releasing good, relevant music in 2019. Also ‘2X Tigers’ is great! A hip hop song on a 3eb album sounds odd, but strangely works well especially after a few listens.

This! I gave it two spins when I first got it. It was a quick grower and one of my favorites this year. There’s also two LP versions. The retail/standard is white with pinkish red splatter, comes with a printed innersleeve and a label layout similar to the artwork. The other is the 10 Bands, 1 Cause version which by the pictures looks like pink on pink splatter, a plain (?) pink innersleeve, but a different label layout. Seems like this was in production first since it’s more available than the standard.

I’m surprised it was on black. I assumed the whole pressing was white. Either way, it’s a great album.

The live F2F songs sounds great and I just listened to the whole thing on digital (grabbing an LP tomorrow!). My big disappointment was the sequencing of tracks. I believe it was recorded during those Triple Crown shows where they played albums in full so it’s not a seamless live show. Worst one was after ‘You Could’ve Had Everything’. Trevor says he hasn’t played the next song in awhile and then goes right into ‘Should Anything Go Wrong’ with the crowd cheering as if they just started playing the show. So it just sounds a bit chopped up. They did it with the og live album since it was recorded among a night or two, but you can barely tell on that one.

Pitchfork can eat it. They’re the same ones who rated ‘Bleed American’ a 3.5 🙄

Yikes! I saw him live a few times and had a lot of fun. I’m not sure why everyone shits on this band so hard with so much actual terrible music out there in the world.

Can anyone comment on the sound quality? I’m curious if it differs much from the Victory pressings.

This is a solid album. Definitely better after each listen. There are upbeat songs like ‘America’, ‘Anna’ and ‘Strangers’, but a lot of mellow, mid-tempo tracks that are great. ‘Portland’ is my favorite track so far. They are playing a local acoustic show on Sunday so I’m excited to hear these in that setting.

It’s definitely on my copy (US neon pink). ‘Nine’ is actually tame for a blink record when it comes to ‘bad language’. Major label shittyness. They should have just labeled the clean copies. You would also think the PA sticker/label would have been redesigned by now to something more transparent.

That was most likely Columbia’s decision.. most labels/bands leave it off, but Columbia is lame. They should have just stuck a PA sticker on the shrink if they really felt the need.

Here’s the Japanese bonus track ‘Out Of My Head’.. definitely a throwaway track.