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Alright!  So, all the money is in and we're ready to go!  I'll get a tracking number from Philippe once he gets our massive package put together.  I'll update that here in the thread, and then once everything is ready I'll send you guys your tracking numbers individually.  I'm fucking excited to get these, thank you guys all for joining in and making this happen.  The label is hugely appreciative, as am I.  I love doing stuff like this together with everybody haha.  
 
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Alright!  So, all the money is in and we're ready to go!  I'll get a tracking number from Philippe once he gets our massive package put together.  I'll update that here in the thread, and then once everything is ready I'll send you guys your tracking numbers individually.  I'm fucking excited to get these, thank you guys all for joining in and making this happen.  The label is hugely appreciative, as am I.  I love doing stuff like this together with everybody haha.  
 
@scissorkik
@omik11303
@mrewest
@GhostTrail
@ghost

oh my.  That was fucking incredible.  I need this.  

Hey guys, I'm just waiting on payment from Scissorkick, and then we're all set!  Thank you to everyone who has paid up so far.  This ended up being a pretty decent order haha, lots of people from the Facebook group joined.  
 
I'll keep everyone apprised as the next steps are taken!

Heh, I thought I had to reverse the order for maximum effect.  And instead of the show being Shoe and Shoelace, the show is Reverb and Delay Pedal.  
 
I think I just need to go bed, though.

Let's not rule out the possibility that it is you who perhaps relishes in everything that's anti-me.  We're in this thing together.

So.  I really just want to talk about Isis.  I hope some of you do too.  I love them, and think they are probably the best metal band (although Rosetta certainly factors greatly into that equation).  
 
I got into my car after being at my friend's house tonight, and was stoked to have remembered that I had "In The Absence of Truth" in my CD player.  Now, I freak out over "Oceanic" just as much as you all do, and that record is rightfully heralded.  However, I think that ITAOT is the band's creative pinnacle.  It is the culmination of all of their development, coming together in an utterly transcendent and glorious piece of art.  It is their most progressive record yet, evidenced by tracks like "Firdous E Bareen."  Otherwise, you have the more obvious post-rock elements, the lush sonic textures giving ground support to everything, the low-tuned guitars, Aaron's pile-driving hardcore vocals, etc.  This is most exemplified, I think, by the closing track, "Garden of Light".  That ending, man.  What's even COOLER, is that the ending is foreshadowed in "Dulcinea", starting around 3:40 in.  What's also cool about "Garden of Light" is that during the intro, we are shown another callback musical element, in the guitar sound used in "Low Tide" from their Aereogramme collaboration; that high sparkly guitar sound that kind of beeps and bubbles with it's reverb and vibrato.  It's kind of like a laser sound, I guess.  You know what I'm talking about.  
 
Anyway, I just hope some of you geek out hard enough over their music to get off talking about stuff like this, wherever the topic drifts    

For anybody else who might be on the fence, head over to http://elusive-sound.com/product/smad-zvezdnoe-serdtse/ and check out more pictures.  The label put up photos of the gatefold and everything, as well as more pictures of the records themselves.  Gorgeous stuff.  Truly pieces of art.
 
I can have Philippe reserve more copies before they sell out, and again, the more people we get, the more the price will drop per person!

Right, but for some reason I'm thinking it was still Matt who was insisting on the change.  I can't remember... I'll have to find that interview sometime.  
 
It's funny you see Wavering Radiant that way, because to me they are opposite.  ITAOT is so richly detailed and perfectly recorded for me.  It hits all the dopamine spots in my brain, and gets me off so hard haha.  Especially when you add some herbal accompaniment.  Which I don't do often, at all... but when I do.... man, there is really nothing that hits the spot for me quite like ITAOT.  
 
You can see the similarities though, between the albums, because what I realized last night while listening to "Wrist of Kings" is that on those last 2 albums, a lot of the drawn-out sections are really just the band alternating back and forth between 2 chords, with everybody else filling in licks and peripheral details to make it more rich and layered.  But on Wavering Radiant, that method of writing is stripped down to be true even for the heavy sections....  the guitar riffs on Wavering Radiant often lack for me, because they're so basic.  Like the verses on "Ghost Key" for instance.  Granted, you have other awesome riffs that just destroy like "Threshold of Transformation" but the way a lot of the heavy riffs on WR are written just seem too simple and basic for me.  It's an odd notion.  
 
Because if you listen to Wrist of Kings or Holy Tears, the clean sections in the middle are just Cliff holding down 2 chords, and alternating back and forth between them.  
 
Although I suppose you could make the argument that that style goes all the way back to "Celestial" because that song has that outro that's just the 2 strummed chords.....

Hey guys, if you're interested, we need to get moving on this.  I have the label reserving some copies, but the /100 variants are flying, and will likely be sold out by next week.  They've sold 60 of them since Friday.  
 
We're up to 8 records in the group buy, so if you want to join in, please let me know so I can reserve more copies from the label, and get this going!
 
Also, many more pictures on the label's website!  http://elusive-sound.com/product/smad-zvezdnoe-serdtse/

That's no mock-up...

Show Me A Dinosaur - S/T album via Elusive Sound will begin pre-orders on 9/9/16 with a full-album release on 9/16/16.  LOOK AT THESE FREAKING VARIANTS!!!!
 
I am told the price will be 24.99euro and 19.99euro, but will confirm later.  Anybody in the US interested in purchasing, contact me to get in on the group-buy.  
 
If you are unfamiliar with the band, check them out on their bandcamp.  Their earlier stuff was more traditional post-rock, but they have since gone a more aggressive direction in the vein of Deafheaven or Vattnet Viskar, incorporating more elements of black metal.  
 

 
Zvednoe Serdtse - "Heart of a Star" - Limited 100

- 180g+ 33-RPM cut from 24bit masters
- Gold Hot-Foiled logos on front and back
- 350gsm gatefold outer sleeve on reversboard with black flooded inside
- Black Anti-Static Innersleeve
- Swiss made screenprinted 12" handnumbered artprint
- Exclusive A4 printed lyric sheet with translations
- A6 printed inlay
- A7 printed inlay with handwritten download code

Exclusively available at Elusive-Sound.com/catalog

Holodnaya Vesna - "Cold Spring" - Limited 150

- 180g+ 33-RPM cut from 24bit masters
- Gold Hot-Foiled logos on front and back
- 350gsm gatefold outer sleeve on reversboard with black flooded inside
- Black Anti-Static Innersleeve
- A6 printed inlay
- A7 printed inlay with handwritten download code

Also available at @showmeadinosaur's official bandcamp: https://showmeadinosaur.bandcamp.com/

shoot me a PM man!  I'll add you to the list.  I think we're up to 4 people now.  

Funny, I'm having the opposite kind of reaction.  I was a little ambivalent towards it at first, but the more I listen, the more I love it.  Also, I've got a few people on board for a group-buy already, so if you want in....you should do it!

Pray For Sound's new full-length album is now officially live for pre-order!  They haven't announced it yet themselves, but the links are up.  
 
Available on 2xLP, CD, digital, as well as new merch to go along with the release.  
 
Variants:  
half/half (Baby Pink/electric blue)
color-in-color (coke bottle green/bone white)
Splatter (Milky clear w/ sea blue splatter
 

Vinyl Record
2xLP with 200 GSM Gatefold Jacket
Full spread inner layout of artwork by Nevan Doyle
140-160 gram weight discs, cut at optimum 45 RPM speed
Exclusive vinyl master of the album
(3) Available variant colors from I Am Shark, AM/FM Records, and Dunk! Records
Includes digital download.
Product ships on or around September 23rd.
Preorder comes with one 320 kbps MP3 single from Everything Is Beautiful and some digital extras.  As additional songs are released, updates will be provided.
http://store.prayforsound.com/
 
http://music.prayforsound.com/

That's fair.  Thanks man.  They think I have Coxsackie Virus now, conjointly with the scarlet fever rash.  I'm on high-dose antibiotics and now prednisone.  FML.  

This is good news.  This bodes well for them playing new material at the Gates gig in a few weeks.  

That's fair.  Thanks man.  They think I have Coxsackie Virus now, conjointly with the scarlet fever rash.  I'm on high-dose antibiotics and now prednisone.  FML.  

Can't wait.  I need some good news.  I have fucking scarlet fever, motherfuckers.  So crazy.  Scarlatinaform rash, specifically.  Kinda just want to die.

Short and on point. We're proud Gumby. 

If we didn't have patience for the climax finale, we wouldn't be post-rock fans.  

If we didn't have patience for the climax finale, we wouldn't be post-rock fans.  

If we didn't have patience for the climax finale, we wouldn't be post-rock fans.  

If we didn't have patience for the climax finale, we wouldn't be post-rock fans.  

I don't understand why they do this Bonus-CD-with-only-1-song thing...  The "Shelter" bonus track "Into The Waves" is one of my favorite songs, but they didn't include it in the regular album.  I just don't get why they do this, it seems kind of dumb to me.  Why not just put the extra song on the regular CD, even if you only release it in Japan, for instance?