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Again, I regret nothing. But rabbat = rabbit with bat wings.

I caught them in Portland, Maine last night. Sound was shit and the energy low, far from the best Boris I've seen. I did snap up all that swank-ass Jack White money vinyl, though. I'm listening to Love (which I gather we're supposed to call LφVE) for the first time now. So come with me, won't you, as we embark on a journey of the mind... The first track, "Away from You" sounds like Attention Please as understood by the vacuum cleaner noise version of Vein. Hoovers along nicely for some seven minutes, then stops. "Coma", up next, soundtracks young Timmy Martin, lying broken at the bottom of a distant well with his grandfather's Radio Shack cassette recorder, the old machine's dying batteries warbling out a 7th-generation bootleg dupe of Flood. Brains don't knit, Timmy. Bones knit, but brains are forever. And that's it for side 1! "EVOL" eats the flip. We begin at the intersection of Marnie Stern and decades of ruinous opiate abuse. Of troubled mind, we then seek bucolic solace, stagger the tone farm by moonlight, and suddenly bloom into the bulbous, bruise-purple, mutant Tetsuo shoegaze of our Pink-tinged dreams. Googaze, as the kids say, and it's pretty glorious for about 5 minutes. Having loosed that steamy Kraken, however, we must now subside into a nutrient-rich wave chowder and there lap sluggish toward the outgroove. Such is LφVE, and it's pretty damn god. Delivers enough flavor crystal power to satisfy the pre-interested, though I doubt many will wind up shelving it with top-tier Fangs. You get thirty minutes of amoebic drugtone graced by one quite fetching cover rabbat, but not much by way of songs or structure. Across the visible spectrum, LφVE's cyanotic companion may treat us to a relatively generous two full tracks per side (four in total! do the math!), but EVφL definitely cooks in a similar kitchen. Shopping list: a case of red wine, some candles, two cats, and a bathtub full of warm Dilaudid. So inspired, opener "uzume" lathers some impressively unhurried guitar tunings over a coy duet of belt sander and rusty sheetmetal. It is followed by "LOVE" which I don't have to explain, because you've seen it on TV. Mama I'm comin' home! "In the Pain(t)" opens side four on a mystic tip. It may or may not be a Waka Flocka cover and consists largely of some twinkles. Last but not least cometh thee "Shadow of Skull". It is bigass and sounds like Boris playing a regular Boris song much, much slower than usual. Luckily, this will allow devotees ample opportunity to savor the curious imprecision of Takeshi's vocal pitch. And then it ends, which means the record has ended! We're done! We listened it! Verdict: LφVE & EVφL is an interesting but somewhat underdeveloped Boris outing elevated by knockout gorgeous art and design. I bought a pack of stickers and two iron-on rabbat patches to go with mine. I am the scar that stands where life has cut, and I regret nothing.

If it’s a double, the track sequencing works out to ~20 min per side, which isn’t bad. Better than 8-12, imo. And you all are either high or not high enough. This is the best thing they’ve released in ages. Rough, ripping & catchy as hell (which they haven’t been in a while). “Scutum & Scorpius” is long but mesmerizing, and I love the way the midsection guitar tone echoes the squeaky-duck “solo” that opens the 1st track. Great album. Way too expensive though, yeah 😕

Ordered ETK & D&L (still sleeping on the brown album). Shipping was steep, yah, but fuck-deficient, I did not hesitate. Such an expensive month...

No, it's true. I'm still interested in the soundtracks I genuinely love (recently picked up MOV's expanded Daughters of Darkness score), but I'm way past sick to death of endless, ugly, supposedly "collectible" peanut butter barf variants of every half-popular nerd niche title in the licensing rolodex. In shitty packaging that looks like a "prestige" issue of some lame indie comic! I mean, if you can't afford genuinely good art, why not settle for bad, lazy, Etsy-level "design", right? Plus super limited hand-poured purple and brown merge with mint green splatter wank wank wank...

Just got a shipping confirmation on the candy-flavored holo foil shiny thing

Boughten. 170 now, so moving, but not exactly flying out the doors.

Me neither. Bought through Bandcamp, and the message there still says, "Estimated to ship December 5, 2018 and estimated to arrive by December 19, 2018". Not sure why they'd supply retail so far in advance of preorders, but as long as I get my copy before the end of the year, I've got no complaints.

Yeah, came here to mention this. Glad to see it's been covered. Psyched, as I love Simply Saucer at least as much as Theo Sieze.

Gross, thanks for ruining it.

Yeah, except for 21 additional tracks (over the 13 on the originals). Nothing to see here...

Dunno. The US is huge, and postal service quality seems to vary within. That said, I buy a lot of records through the mail, and domestic parcels almost always arrive intact. While ordering from overseas is a bit more risky, I’ve only rarely had issues, usually with parcels that have travelled a long, long way... Like from Orstralia, f’rinstance. It’s not just Flightless, neither. Rarely does a box fromunda arrive unbeat. Can’t tell if the fault lies with the origin post, some international middleman, US customs, quotidian trouble distribution, or what.

Received 2 ORBs & 2 KGizz LPs today (separate packages). Though the boxes looked a lil beat, the albums are perfect. In fact, since first ordering from them during the Nonagon preorder, these are the first Flightless records I've had arrive without any bumped corners. Gizz box included the catalog sheet described upthread, a "Great Flightless Crash" bumper sticker, and 2 smaller blue "Gizzverse Confirmed" stickers.

Yaller nuts. This is exactly what the characters & their environment are supposed to look like, maybe the only piece of Turtles spin-off merch I've seen get it right in recent years. Looks tough & gritty/urban, but still more-or-less kid-friendly. Also looks like a basically homemade 80s indie comic -- as it should. Love the roughness of Eastman's lines, traces of graf & anime/manga in the character designs, 70s children's book illustration in the background; love the noirish streetscape & looming skyline suggesting a seedy, trashy, crime-scarred Manhattan that doesn't really exist anymore. Good stuff, and the relative crudity of Eastman's style is a definite virtue in that regard, like you know there's ass about to get kicked. Far more appropriate and interesting than most of the characterless, soulless, blandly realistic "art" that typically graces these money-sink soundtrack reissues aimed at indiscriminate pop culture collectors . I mean, I'm not gonna buy a copy, because the music doesn't interest me, but the packing is fucking perfect.

Yeah, exactly. Works for me. One of my favorite songs of the last decade, pop, metal, or otherwise. My eyes get all sweaty when I hear it. Favorites: 10k yrs, Fireface, Thraft, Hessian, Silverback, Fury Whip (but it taste so fresh), Mad=Architect, THE FLAGONIST

Aargh. Haven't even received a shipping notice. Which is weird, cuz they usually send one almost immediately, sometimes weeks before they actually get anything in the mail.

Yeah, Loops is good. I'm just a sucker for the overdriven fuzz, which was moving to the back burner even by ETK.

Hmm. I've already got nice originals of 1 & 2. And 3 is more of a mixed bag, relative to my 'lab likes. Need decent (non-1972) reissues of MAQ, TRNB and ETK. Colored wax doesn't matter. Well sourced & pressed vinyl would be fine.

I want one. There were copies floating around here & there until recently, but it's now quite hard to find. Can't pay a huge amount, but fair price is fair (whatever that means).

Yeah, fucking ridiculous. 5 copies were available a minute ago (now gone), but I balked at the total.

Here...

Well fuck me ragged and call me Dan.

More or less, yeah, though I'd say Red & Blue are too close to call, and the first couple EPs are right up there with them. Purple and Yellow/Green aren't by any means bad, but the drop is significant.

yeah, if only for a moment

Yellow & blue Blood Music LP arrived today. Version to beat, IMO. Clever, strong, thematically integrated design with (almost*) every detail carefully thought-out and beautifully executed. Smurfy af. * inner sleeve text - not the lyrics, but the decagonal credits - a little sloppy