catching up...

...because I've received 6 packages since my last post and I am very close to comparing this to homework, and that's not good. Lately I've just being posting what I've received, but cared so much about the written stuff.... this is not gonna be different.

I am in the middle of a hard situation. My hardcore-buddy doesn't have the same spark for it anymore and it's taking me some time to accept :P

I'll try to post these in order after when I received them, first one's going first:

2x Pointing Finger 7"s from Nico (New Morality):

Pointing Finger/Pollution 7" Yellow vinyl w/ Wide Awake rip-off tour sleeve /100

Pointing Finger - Reasons, Not Rules on black vinyl:

Bane is continuing to do this realesing-7"s-on different-labels-within-a-short-period-of-time-thing, and here's their second 7" released on the Irish label Hurry Up Records:

Bane - Rome 12:58 on Magenta vinyl w/ blue haze /250. Colour is better seen below.

Next up is the first release from my good friend Dave's band Outlast (not the Swedish band)... Life To Live Records put up a pre-order package with all four colours (white being the exclusive pre-order colour /100). It also included a t-shirt, put they only had Small left, so this is like body-paint on me!

Pressing info:
White (numbered /100)
Clear /125
Blue /125
Black /150
Black test pressing /10

Here is my first post that include something besides hardcore (with the exception of Broadcast and Tom Waits). I haven't been updating my indie vinyls much (in comparison to hardcore), but here's a little update:

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic (black vinyl, Matador Records)

..... And here's a little update to my skinny electronic vinyls (not very keen on much electronic music anyway

Yelle - Pop-up 2LP
This is a bit of a hard piece to find. Not that it's expensive at all, but it's just not available a lot of places. I had to buy this from a store in New Zealand for crying out loud!
It's electronic at it's best with female fronted vocalist singing in French... and my god she's charming. Unfortunately their best song Qui Est Cette Fille isn't on this record :(

Last up is my order from Get The Most. I got a hoodie and their double-pack 7" with their Tour sleeve /75:

#15/75:

Calm before the storm!

The following three packages is the calm. I placed a humongous order at a German distro this week, so they should be here next week! That doesn't mean I wasn't filled with anticipation when I got these records.

The first one actually came about a week ago, but I haven't gotten around to post it. I didn't really know much about Rise And Fall before a friend wrote in his Facebook status that their new record was awesome. I figured I better check it out, and boy was he right! I pre-ordered the record immediately from Deathwish, only to see that I didn't do fast enough to get the most limited color. Well, serves me right, because I had been sloppin' on some other pre-orders but made it get the rare colour. I guess I can't do that every time... Then again all them hc-kids are lying at wait in the Deathwish-bushes just to storm out and attack each time a pre-order comes up! Did someone say Converge pre-order??
Anyway, maybe I can make my piece with having this exact color, because it literally looks like the receiving end of the sewer on Thanksgiving:

You can tell it's a Deathwish release just be looking at the cover, which isn't a bad thing, but a little bit diversity would be nice.
This brown/bronze color is out of 700.
The one thing that got me into this release was how track 2 "Built On Graves" reminded me of my Black Metal period. That guitar-riff is evil as fuck! With that being said, my overall impression is that they put a lot of work into thge construction of the songs and that they have tried to make it a more diverse experience to listen to the record from frist to last track. Something which they didn't have as much success with on Into Oblivion imo.

Next thing up is my little mission to collect one of each of Bane's new 7" releases. Apparently some of them aren't being released on vinyl. As I understand it, they have/are releasing a total of 6 different releases, on 5 different labels. I don't remember the time in the titles of the releases, but they called, Dublin, Boston, Rome, Los Angeles, Perth and Tokyo. The last two is not out on vinyl. I got Dublin, have pre-ordered Rome, will pre-order Los Angeles and just got Boston today:

Ordered from Triple B Records. They require that overseas buyers order at least two items, so I grabbed the Downpressor 7" even though I might not have ordered it if this requirement wasn't there.
Anyway:
Downpressor - Age Of Ignorance (Green vinyl) /300
Bane - Boston 6:58 pm (Red vinyl) /700

Last but in the direct opposite of least is my Ebay winning for now; the last two Our Turn 7"s. I now have all three. Our Turn is an amazing youth crew band and I am annoyed to hell that these guys aren't around anymore!

Our Turn - Demo (Transparent orange vinyl) /??
Our Turn - Catch Your Breath (Clear vinyl) Posi-fest press, stamped /225

Catch Your Breath is easily one of the best YC 7"s in many years imo. It was released on the cool label Youngblood Records, which also released, along with React Records, Carry On - It's All Our Blood!

Packages from HUP and Musicstack

From a very successful one-weeks leave from the daily routine, I returned to my nest and found 3 packages lying on my kitchen table. mmh.....
First a visit at my old folks place, then a successful destruction of the our spare capital city :)
Anyway, here' what I got this time:

Two additions to my Broadcast-collection. I got these fairly cheap off Musicstack - around $10 each. at the top is Broadcast - Pendulum 12" (Lovely design!!) the guy who designs all the Broadcast sleeves is currently in The Focus Group. At the bottum of the picture is Broadcast - America's Boy 7" from the album Tender Buttons. The track America's Boy is stunning!

The first Bane-release on Hurry Up Records is "Dublin, 11:58 pm". The design is really gorgeous and not like previous Bane releases. The music though is a natural continuation of The Note. This 7" is loaded with hardcore strength and I might favour this over The Note.
This 7" exists in 5 colors, 2 of them which have record release covers. This one is a regular version; orange w/ white spectacles and it's out of 200.