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5 hours ago, Sad Heart said:

https://www.newburycomics.com/collections/exclusive-vinyl/products/unwound-leaves_turn_inside_you_exclusive_2lp?variant=41055281643700

Clear. I prefer the red from Numero.

Me too. 

2 minutes ago, morfiend said:

Received the clear indie variant in the mail yesterday. Besides the shitty inner sleeves (poly and paper? wtf?) the vinyl sound great. I may upgrade to the deluxe eventually since I really like this album a lot.

I like the album. It is very good in some parts. Unfortunately for me nothing has stood out, yet. For instance I can’t tell you which songs have the parts I find very good. I think the blame lies with the production. The whole album sounds so samey. I’m still considering picking it on vinyl though as I have been going back to it a lot this week.

59 minutes ago, morfiend said:

This is their best work since CTS, awesome album. I just ordered the clear vinyl, anyone pick it up yesterday? How does it sound?

I liked it. It was a lot better as a whole body compared to just a couple of tracks for prerelease. I still don’t know if it something I’ll listen to regularly or if it’s better than Emperor of Sand. 

3 hours ago, drewberinger said:

I bought a lime green variant today so I'll be selling my blue mistake vinyl once I get it in haha

The lime looks good.

1 hour ago, Skacel said:

Yeah but what about the warmth of vinyl? 

Forgot about that 

It sucks it was on the RSD site and major retailers had preorders.

1 hour ago, Skacel said:

Random colour choice but the OP in Reddit says it sounds decent enough so here's hoping.

Sounds decent enough? At best it’s the CD eq’ed for vinyl. Someone can just listen to the CD or lossless stream and have no surface noise, rumble, wow, flutter, or other issues and defects.

This is either a placeholder with bad info, or internet anomaly that got picked up by legit stores. No distros that I was able to check have it or list anything more than a possible placeholder.

Pink Flesh vinyl arrived and I played through it. Sounds great. 45rpm like Surgical Steel. To me drums were a nice improvement with increased impact and punch and guitar sounded more distinct with overall clarity increased over digital format, but digital isn’t bad. Vinyl was slightly warped but played just fine without noticeable noise. 
 

Great album.

Just wanted to add to the flame emoji so more people excitedly check the thread. 

My friend?

1 hour ago, jhulud said:

Now that I'm home from Furnace Fest, I gave the song a proper listen. I love it. Overall it just sounds so good and atmospheric and still has that feel that you know it's Converge. 

 

 

Agreed. Great mix of both Converge and CW.

I don’t like everything Chelsea Wolfe does, but what I like, I LOVE. I’ll be checking this out.

But they were all already on the 20th. So maybe only two will be on the 35th.
 

12 minutes ago, mcpherson123 said:

They really need to figure out what they think they're doing with that 7" material. That is way too much music for that format.

Yeah. And then why leave out Curmudgeon? At what point does it not become just another rehashing, when you leave one song off of a complete set of b-side studio material?  Then it’s something new?

I’ll never understand the music industry and maybe that a good thing.

Yeah, that’s certainly impressive that they are still making music like this and of this quality. And again they’re not just following a blueprint but pushing the boundaries of what they are doing without going St Anger.

2 minutes ago, spaceghost said:

Agree, this is disappointing. The better idea would have been to include the Hormoaning EP and reduce the live material considerably. Not sure the Pallas press can be bested with a remaster either.

Good thought. Is this going to be yet another new remaster/recut? 

Going back through the 20th set, especially the digital version, there really isn’t much else they can do. 
 

devinshire mix on vinyl, but yeah. Not much else. 

Those boom box demos were so bad.

49 minutes ago, timsimmons said:

I mean, idk what else is out there after the Kurt demos record and Sliver. 
 

I don’t think a box set of shows is a terrible idea, it just has a very limited fan base. 

Right. It’s not terrible. Just a lot of live stuff from the same era. 
 

Has the full early album recording sessions ever been released in good quality? Like the full session from the in bloom subpop video? I’m not as up Nirvana stuff as used to be. I do remember that the SQ on that subpop video was pretty rough. What about the full Vig mixes, before Andy Wallace? 

No comments on this one? Still waiting for my record, but I’ve been listening a lot via stream and I really like the album. A lot to digest. To me it’s certainly more complex and difficult to penetrate than the last few records, but I like that there is a good mix of sounds and arrangements, even throwbacks to the more jarring changes mid song ala Nectroticism. It’s not all rehash though as there are a couple of new directions that expand the sound without going too far off the rails. Really good and still growing. 

Hope you like live material. 7 live LPs and a 7” with too much music on it. I’m sure the book is cool, but damn what a money grab. Nothing new studio/demo officially released, or even comprehensive collection of all odds and ends from the era. 
 

No thank you

1 hour ago, mcpherson123 said:

Track titles all sound cool. I hope this actually good. I haven't really enjoyed a whole album from them since Crack The Skye.

I don’t think we’ll ever get another Crack The Skye, but if they put out another Emperor of Sand I’ll be very happy.

Wait a second…

SIDE D ETCHED ARTWORK?!?

😭

The songs released so far are top notch ETID. I’m really liking it so far. I waited to check anything out until after the preorders dropped and I’ve listened to the four songs about 9 or 10 times through already.