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you are excellent at finding these deep cuts and giving them the love and attention they have always deserved—bravo, this is a wonderful thing to reissue

It's a fun listen but $130 is taking the piss. Straight-up price gouging.

DW256 — looks like Deathwish, the recent Hope Conspiracy EP had cat# DW254 —

I am going to guess the title is "Children of the Moon".

Really looking forward to this, I just recently got starburst copies of their two on Tiny Engines and really loved their most recent.

If we see a normal copy of Coloring Book and Our Color Green, that would be ideal, I think. The rings release is awful for actually playing (never sought one out due to how many issues it has) and the 7"s for the latter are absurd. An LP or two to actually play them easily would be killer.

Though, it's Glassjaw. If this release goes without a hitch I'll eat my hat.

Cool deluxe edition, not gonna lie, but I like my rainbow splatter press and don't need the 7". Though I do like die-cut covers.

1 hour ago, dantheriver said:

If you thought you could wait on the potentially better variant because it’s less rare then think again. Sold out via deathwish, still a few on their Bandcamp, possibly some going to other stores. 

It's a "galaxy" so it probably won't look as good as anyone thinks TBH. Very rarely do I see that type of variant looking more than passable. Huge shame that the Rainbo "starburst" disappeared with them and that the only thing trying to replace it is this "galaxy" business.

Though if it does end up looking like a properly mixed-up yellow/red then I will take this back!

Great band, regardless.

16 minutes ago, MCDELTAT said:

 

Holy f^*% man. I did not cause I deleted social media for the last few weeks. Been waiting forever for this. Where’s the splatter at? Tour/band variant? 

Took a while for me to figure that out. The only place where I could find the location of the splatter mentioned is squirreled away on the "Discography" tab on Infant Island's site. The splatter there is confirmed to be a tour variant.

Song is alright, though I'm gonna hold off ordering until I hear the whole thing as well—it's not like, anything special; and I expected some more interesting ideas from the 'ideal' combination of both these bands, IMO. We will see, it could be better in album-context.

Crazy how fast they're selling, honestly. Good for them, though, the album is killer and I made the mistake of waiting on the 2017 repress because I thought it would sit around. Didn't do it this time—got the black/blue w/white splat one.

If anyone sees or finds a distro for this in the UK, please let me know. Shipping is prohibitively expensive for me but I do really want to own this. Essential band

Not gonna lie, I was seriously considering buying the original first press splatter literally yesterday. Glad I waited. Finally a gatefold for this, too—picked up the /500 splatter.

As someone who has absolutely loved everything Loma Prieta has put out before this album, I'm... not really into this. The heavy upbeat melodic nature of some of the songs (especially Dose, Symbios, the fast parts of Dreamlessnessless...) kind of ruins the mood of the whole thing, for me. Some particularly fast & upbeat parts remind me of something like Jeff Rosenstock, which is an unfortunate comparison considering that reeeeally is not the tone I would be looking for out of something like this.

It feels like tonal whiplash from all their albums (this is absolutely not the evolution I had hoped for after Self Portrait), I don't really know. Oh well. I don't particularly feel like it's going to grow on me, either, which is disappointing.

TC have a HELL of a lot of audacity to sell that for $65.

Having the paper "jackets" also be the vinyl sleeves themselves essentially means the release did not come with a proper jacket at all. Just two cardstock 'inners' with embossing, in a PVC sleeve. (Though feel free to correct me on this, as I don't own this release. Just going by what I've seen in pictures.) They could have at least put them in a double-wide single-pocket proper jacket, right? Did they really not do that?

I don't personally understand how embossing unprinted heavy cardstock and making a single-color print on a PVC sleeve would even remotely end up with a per-unit price of $65. Something must have went terribly wrong in the production process because I've seen releases much more lavish than this (lol) go for the same price.

Man... I would love to own this record, but €40 + shipping for the LP is too much for me. I do wish SPR would chill with the pricing on their records. It's way out of hand.

Very happy for a repress. Got the orange one. Not sure exactly what's up with shipping to the UK (it was a little awkward to check out) but managed to do so for a decent price. One of the best of its kind... whether one describes it as 'emocore', 'proto-screamo / screamo', 'post-hardcore' etc... it's legendary.

Really looking forward to new music, have been aching to hear another full-length.

Man, all of these anniversary editions they're doing really reminds me of better days. A big lot of the new stuff they have released the past years is not very good.

Now if only the new Tim Hecker album were as reasonably priced here in the UK as it is in the US... £35 is double the US price. Highway robbery, I tell you!

Snagged the represses a couple days back—crossing my fingers the recent repress campaign leads to a new album sometime this year.

Also would love to see a new Demdike Stare LP soon.

They should bother sending some repress copies to the UK. It's still impossible to find a copy over here. If anyone sees a listing for this in the UK that isn't stupid expensive please show me, I will be quite happy.

14 hours ago, DecayToDeath said:

the insert spells the album title wrong, like i get maybe having a typo in the lyrics but the biggest goddamn font across the entire spread literally says SUFFOACTING HALLUCINATION

Interesting—there's copies (pics on Instagram and Discogs) which have it spelled correctly (as well as a few pics of said incorrect spelling on IG)... wonder how that happened.

For example:
Incorrect: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpiTJ46u9z7/

Correct: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpdDL9hJEQd/

"Rare typo version for sale $150 NM-!!"

21 hours ago, lexicondevil said:

Strange that they would choose "cloudy clear" out of all of the colors. It seems a little too close to the clear friends and family pressing.

I don't understand it at all, personally. They reissued You Fail Me Redux on the cloudy clear and people are already mixing up it with the F&F listing so much that the F&F listing on Discogs is overrun by them.

Glad the new single is actually screaming and not the awful not-even-shouting hollering that they did on their comeback LP (and on Presents, which they really should re-record with proper screaming). Hope the whole album maintains that.

With that said, instrumentals are still kinda weak though. Time will tell if the whole album maintains good energy.

45 minutes ago, ghosthardware said:

Can anybody tell me how good or bad are the most recent Botch represses? I'm very very skeptical of continuing buying stuff from Sargent House, last two albums I bought from them (ERR - Marked for Death repress and Engine of Hell) are super noisy (far far worse than what you can expect from most records).

My copy of We Are The Romans sounds brilliant, and I have been having a lot of frustration revolving around a glut of poor vinyl pressings elsewhere recently (so I have been hyper-aware of when my records have surface noise/popping). I can confidently say that my copy (blue/black merge), at least, has no issues.

Very excited for this. I expect the orange variants will have the fourth cover (and share it with the CD/digital? edit: orange has a fourth alt cover different from the digital). I enjoy the anticipation of which versions will end up at UK retailers and absolutely love all the alt artworks.