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I’ve seen a lot of people getting an acoustic Freedom 90 vibe from it:

They are not deserving of your sympathy. Also, there’s some kind of “music box” instead of a CD version. https://lorde.store/products/solar-power-music-box-discless-product

Genesis

I mostly just pick up new things at this point. I have a list of maybe 10-15 old things that are so expensive/rare that I’ve pretty much resigned myself to never owning them, so maybe I’m there already. I used to be able to stumble upon some stuff every once in a great while when I traveled for work, but it looks like that’s no longer going to happen (thanks, pandemic!).

According to their Twitter there are more that will go up on Monday. Not sure if they are ones that are listed but showing as sold out or ones that aren’t listed at all currently.

A little too rich for my blood at the moment, but some good stuff here: https://nosleeprecords.com/products/test-press-vault-1?mc_cid=1cccd8583e&mc_eid=951cbb35a1

New album PO. I imagine there will be more options down the road. https://hopelessrecords.myshopify.com/collections/illuminati-hotties

Yeah, I liked this fine, but I bought it at the same time I bought the Arm’s Length EP (https://armslengthontario.bandcamp.com/album/everything-nice) which is a little closer to my emo wheelhouse.

Vinyl pressing of the EP that was released earlier this year to much fanfare (relatively speaking): Orange /250 through Knifepunch - https://www.knifepunchrecords.com/products/704620 Green/Bone /500 through Father/Daughter - https://www.fatherdaughterrecords.com/products/704294-home-is-where-i-became-birds

American Fail on vinyl through Little Elephant for those interested: https://www.littleelephantlive.com/americanfail

I hope they release all the covers from the flexis somewhere. They all sound interesting.

I didn’t get into the last album but I really dig what I’ve heard of this one. Not always an easy listen, but if you wrote them off previously, they seem to be doing something different on this one.

I like this band fine, but I personally can’t help feeling like everything since their first album (and even some of their first album) has been almost pastiche where it’s just very obvious where the influences come from and makes it rings a little hollow to me. The new single is catchy, but that’s because its pretty much “Because the Night” with a little Jim Steinman.

I’m trying to figure out if it sounds like Young the Giant on purpose or on accident.