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I'm especially excited for the Rachel Davies track - if you peeps haven't listened to Esben and the Witch. . . do yourself a favour! 😍 

It is up on Amazon UK and Japan already. I'm sure that it'll be on the US site soon. I'm also seeing it pop up at a lot of random UK/Eu shops now. So there is no real reason to think it isn't a big worldwide release. This reminds me of the recent Nick Cave boxset which sold out the first few places that listed it and then it was readily available.

I’m so jealous of the people who get to see Nadja do the live soundtrack to Stalker next week. Best movie ever made. 

Hey folks, I wanted to raise some awareness about a Discogs scam that almost got me.
 
Earlier this week I was about to buy the Bad Religion box set from a seller on Discogs who looked legit. Almost 300 items sold, high percentage of positive feedback, and appeared to be located in the UK. Price was below average but not so amazing that it was too good to believe. Figured the guy was just looking for a quick sale.
 
DM'd the guy with a few questions about condition and shipping and he got back to me quickly.  In hindsight, I should have asked for pictures too.
 
Anyway, I put my order through and go to pay.  I get an error. I try again and again over the course of an hour then I get a message from the seller saying "hey, is something wrong with the order?". I told him I was having issues with the Discogs payment at checkout and he gives me an email address to send payment direct via PayPal.
 
Not proud of myself but I almost did it. I actually tried to send the payment through but thank fuck it was flagged by PayPal security as a high dollar value international transfer and didn't go through. I go into PayPal's support chat to figure out what's up. Meanwhile I keep getting messages from the Discogs guy asking where the payment is.
 
PayPal confirmed that they flagged the transfer and asked me to confirm I wanted to send the money.  At the time I said yes and they said I was now clear to send at my discretion. This is when it dawned on me that there was no option to send the money Goods and Services - only Friends and Family. Red flag goes up and I messaged the Discogs dude that I am not going to send almost $900 CAD as Friends and Family - we need to figure something else out.
 
I wake up the next morning and my order is cancelled. Discogs guy is no longer responding to my messages.
 
At first I'm bummed that I missed a good deal and I'm mad that the Discogs checkout screwed me over. Then I think about it a little more and start Googling the same type of scenario. 
 
I'm pretty sure it's this scam:
https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/951380?page=1&message_id=9630935
 
People's accounts are being hacked, items are posted for sale, their payment settings deliberately disabled, and then the scammer messages for a Friends and Family PayPal transfer. The other reason I think this is what happened to me is because PayPal customer support told me the guy's name tied to the PayPal account. I googled it afterwards and it's a Ukrainian name.
 
So now I think I dodged an expensive bullet but wanted to share my near miss with others.
 
Be smart about paying for stuff and maybe change your Discogs password. Stay safe out there.
 

Who dis?
 

Bleh.
 
Honestly that's some bullshit. I dig this band, and I'm obviously going to buy the new record, but why limit info like that to stupid social media shit? Makes me wish I didn't feel compelled to pick this up and makes me respect them less. I hate this timeline.

I’ve been doing it the other way around and it seems to work just as well. 

Few things make me more proud than seeing the community band together to enlighten someone that records should be opened if they're going to be played, and sealed if they're intended to sell. 🥹 You came to the right place.

I thought the same thing too thag it’s going to lead into something a bit more upbeat and banging. Especially that it picks up right at the end and just abruptly cuts off. Let’s hope we’re right. 

I had a similar thought. I'm glad I'm not the only one who hears it that way.

I listened to the single like 10 times on repeat on my way to work and I noticed a couple of things.  First, it loops back into itself pretty well, so that's fun.  But more importantly, the way it starts and ends make me think it not only comes directly out of a track that proceeds it, but builds into the following track, most likely seamlessly.  

If you listen to the bongos/congas right at the end, they start to do a double time thing and pick up in speed and intensity, like a short build into the next track.   What I'm hoping is they carved out a little 3 minute breather that was a nice, solid tune they could carve off as a lead-in single.

I know they've done abrupt cuts, intros, and outros on other albums, so I could be way off, but that's what I'm hoping; banger>3 minute tune>banger

Flyying Colours is issuing their first two EPs on a single 12” for the first time.  
 
https://flyyingcolours.bandcamp.com/album/flyying-colours-2
 
https://poisoncityestore.com/collections/frontpage/products/flyying-colours-flyying-colours-lp
 
https://store.clubac30.com/products/726458-flyying-colours-flyying-colours-lp
 
 
It looks like the poison city ones are both /150 and the clubac30 is /400

Caught these guys on their farewell tour last night. Been a long time fan but never seen them before. Holy hell did they bring it last night! Great setlist with a mix of everything, tons of energy, and the sound was awesome. Pretty much every song sounded much better live. 
 
If you have a chance to see them, I highly recommend. Far exceeded expectations even though they didn't play Rainbow Signs, which is my favorite song of theirs. 

Thanks. After posting this I listened to the whole thing again and solidified some of those second half tracks in my memory. "Melting" and "Altar" are definitely two the the highlights of side B. I'll pretty much consider the former to be the acting finale of the album as I sort of pack "Send Nudes" into the category of "epilogue." Love the bass line on it but those lyrics are just too cheeky to stand up to the finales on the previous albums.  I'm not loving the main chorus lyrics from "Proof" because that's just a goofy ass adage to build song title and chorus out of but sonically the song is pretty good.
 
I really do wish that they had treated some of these songs in their current forms as demos and then instead go back and re-perform the whole tracks all together as a band in live takes for the final recordings, as I understand they built a lot of the songs in separate shifts without all being in the studio together at the same time, contributing their own parts after the bones of the songs were established. Many of these songs would feel much better if they felt like the band playing live like most of The Fool seems to be and a number of the best tracks on all the subsequent albums.

Good review, which I mostly agree with. I like the album and have listened to it several times, but so far the individual songs and melodies haven't hooked me in the same way that much of their others do. Not that I dislike them, more that they just haven't grabbed my attention on their own. But it's a pretty solid, even listen throughout.

So this came out. Looks like only three of us were looking forward to it. I ended up cancelling my pre-order which still had not shipped as of the release date and I grabbed it from my guy's local record shop. Glad I went that way. The damn official band merch vendor was based in the UK and I would have been waiting my ass off for this thing while it was available right down the street.
 
So the verdict: I would say this album has their catalog's weakest opening and closing tracks. "Champion" is more enjoyable that "Send Nudes" but it does NOT hit like any other album's opener. Its also probably the second weakest track on it overall with the closer being the weakest. That's tough for me when I've loved every other album's bookend tracks which is a quality that really drives me to re-spin them.
 
"Hips" has to be the most satisfying expansion of their palette on this album. So many cool effects and performance styles. This is the type of track that invigorates a first listen to a new Warpaint album. Its so fucking cool. "Hard To Tell You" has instrument/vocal harmony sections that reference both "Mad World" by Tears For Fears and "Africa" by Toto. I'm not mad about it but it was slightly jarring at first. Song is good. "Stevie" has possibly the most beautiful bass/guitar chord progression harmonies of any Warpaint jam. Very uplifting and sweet sounding. Another awesome expansion of style with that interplay between guitar and bass. I really can't overstate the genius in that.
 
"Like Sweetness" is a nice jam but its one of several songs that I still don't completely remember how to recite in my head for the most part. I do recall it having a great melody. "Trouble" stood out right away with great melody and an uncharacteristic piano driven progression. I'm still having trouble (no pun intended) recalling anything significant about the rest of the tracks aside from "Send Nudes" and I'm not super fond of remembering that track. Its melodically nice but the titular lyrical theme is just so mundane it really shuts me down about it. I'm hoping more of the back half will grow on me.
 
I'm feeling generally positive about the album but it doesn't really have a track that can stand up "The Stall" or "Intro/Keep It Healthy" or "Warpaint" (the song from The Fool). Weird that they have a song named after the band itself. Its one of their top 5 best tracks though. One thing this album is missing for me is a lead vocal from Jenny. Its always good to hear her voice in front when they do that. Gonna keep listening of course. I am still enjoying getting familiar with it.

my therapist said that to me once

Definitely not, this will never get a 3rd press. 

Herb Alpert still slaps

The “be patient” urgings/condescension in this thread is aging poorly. So am I while I wait to own a copy of this.

The digital is already out, and I don't see a post for the vinyl preorder: ltd/1K on maroon and pink swirl (shipping early 2023) with a signed flexi-disc postcard (shipping sooner).
$25 on Roll Call Records or Bandcamp.

Everything pisses me off

Thanks for confirming my pokemon theory tugger.

Y'all...It's home! Thank you again for your help and lbw87 for the very reasonable trade! I'm so stoked to have this thing back. My expectations that it would happen were extremely low and I still can't believe it happened.