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Agreed. That single leaves something to be desired for sure. Sounds like it’ll be one of the few – if only? – instances of clean vocals on the album, base off the description. NA absolutely shafted on those variants though. Damn.

For those that care about what records actually sound like, quality from TMR appears to have taken a pretty substantial nosedive in recent years. I know Discogs reviews should be taken with a huge grain of salt, but everything I seem to be reading as of late suggests way more miss than the usual hit-or-miss. I didn’t buy them but a lot of folks seem to cite the recent Verve presses as a notable bungle.

I don't understand why Bloc albums can't be repressed in their original form. They doctored up Silent Alarm some years ago, and these are just as questionable. (Not that I care about them anywhere near as much as Silent Alarm, which turns 20 this year and ought to get a true repress.)

Alopecia is the only Why? album I can really get into… and that being said, this single isn’t doing much for me at all. Nice album art and variants though.

My hunch is that BM just jumped the gun a smidge and listed the first pink & blue mock-up that they stumbled across. Whoever created the page probably looked right over the split vs. merge descriptor. I’m pretty confident they just have the wrong photo depicted. No idea how or why 1234G have both pink-blue variants for sale though.

Several times over, yeah. I held off on the singles (despite the hype) and am glad I did, because the whole thing hits so well.

Swinging back to bands with redeemable qualities for a sec, that new DIIV is absurdly good. I’m a little obsessed with it.

Brutal pricing yet again. It’s 3 extra tracks on the C side, and an etching on the D side, I think? Feels like such a poor use of 2 LPs but I guess it’d be too much work to recut at 45 RPM. 🙄 I kind of wonder how the band sounds live in 2024. I suspect their vocals have gotta’ sound rough.

Final track of the upcoming Shellac album is titled I Don’t Fear Hell. Crazy.

Fucking hell. https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

Not buy it.

So quirky! 🤪

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I mean, she dropped in on one of his LA shows the weekend before last to duet a couple of songs and hug him on stage. Not sure how much animosity that leaves room for. https://www.stereogum.com/2256728/watch-better-oblivion-community-centers-phoebe-bridgers-conor-oberst-reunite-in-la/news/

Same thought. Saw the video / article yesterday and my immediate reaction was simply “guess I need to be on high alert for Monday”. It’d be nice to be wrong, but. Yeah.

Blue variant group-buy crew stays winning. 💪

From reading the description, the limited edition lithograph insert, I would imagine. Full details here.

Between Albini being a stickler for sound and the time taken to write that blurb on the product page, I want to guess that QA isn’t going to let the press sound like garbage.

New Shellac. https://store.touchandgorecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/shellac-to-all-trains-cd-lp

Same. They seemed to have insane web coupons active at all times, so I’m only getting stung for like $18 and change after shipping. Still super annoying though, and I feel for anyone who has funds tied up. What a shit-show.

I had to do a double-take from glancing at it earlier; absolutely would've bet money that it said Los Angeles, so I have no idea what happened there. But you guys are right. I dunno if Vegas is any better or worse, but at least it's closer [for me]. Probably not swinging it, but I agree that the lineup seems like you're bound to catch something great anywhere you turn.

That’s a lotta’ good music, but it’s also in LA. Kind of breaks even.

I think I’m going to uphold my tradition of not listening to the actual tracks, especially so far in advance of a release date (which we don’t even have yet). I do like to go into the new records 95% blind, I think that’s the most fun and rewarding. Way too many horror stories from people binging bootlegs for months and then feeling underwhelmed that there’s “not enough new material” when the album drops, or that the songs and their production just don’t “feel the same”. (Which, I mean… yeah.) I was able to whet my appetite with some very promising clips from the new songs last night, and that’s more than enough to keep new Godspeed atop my list of most-anticipated music. To each their own though.

2 new tracks debuted tonight. Lines up with a Belgian article that recently mentioned a new album in September. The video clips I heard were glorious… but I also say this as someone who’s really happy with their last album, and isn’t even remotely tired of them covering the same ground they do so well. Bits of the percussion and flow at a few parts were giving me major DMST vibes. Which is a good thing.