Lush - Origami [12", Boxset]

The best Record Store Day release this year was without doubt the ORIGAMI 5LP boxset by LUSH. It combines their 3 albums (Spooky, Split and Lovelife) with Gala, their early EP compilation, and Topolino, which was a Japan/Canada-only compilation that had only been released on CD so far. I've been waiting for reissues of their albums for a long time, so this is more or less a little dream come true :)

The artwork looks great. It's pretty similar to the artwork of Chorus, a 5CD box that came out some months ago and that features these same 5 releases with extra tracks on each disc.

The box is packed in a white cardboard protective box:

The first LP, Gala, is a compilation of their earliest EP's. From the 3 out of 5 of these LP's in the boxset that i have an original version of, this one comes closest to the original. The labels are identical and so is the outer artwork plus the inner sleeve. The only difference is that the 1990 version had two inner sleeves, and this reissue is on clear vinyl.

The second one, Spooky, i can't really compare with the original 12" edition since i don't own a copy of that version. I just have the 2x10" version (which i think is much cooler actually), and that looks quite different. But from what i know, the standard 12" edition looks pretty similar to this reissue. Except for that this one's on grey vinyl.

Split is an album i've had on my wantlist for years, but i never managed to score a vinyl copy. So i'm extremely happy to finally have it now, as a part of this boxset. It's on red vinyl.

Lovelife, the fourth LP in the box, was originally out on clear vinyl in a see-through sleeve. For this boxset they reproduced it on pink vinyl, and made a brand new white sleeve that has the original artwork centered on the front, and pictures from the CD booklet on the back. The original label was the same picture that's now on the back, while they used the picture from the label of the Single Girl single for this reissue. I didn't have a copy of the original until the very Sunday after RSD16, so in the same weekend i actually scored 2 versions of this album. Pretty cool.

The fifth and last LP in the box is Topolino, which never came out on vinyl before. It's on yellow vinyl, and the artwork of the sleeve is pretty similar to the boxset's version of Lovelife: a white sleeve and some pictures positioned in the same way. Which makes sense in a way, because it's of course mostly B-sides from the singles from that album. The label on the record comes from the cd-maxi version of the 500 (Shake Baby Shake) single.

The boxset is limited to 2000 copies worldwide, and i'm extremely happy i managed to score a copy.

Label: 4AD

Year of release: 2016

Cat.nr.: LUSH BOX 2

GALA: CAD 3606

SIDE A:

01. Sweetness And Light

02. Sunbathing

03. Breeze

04. De-Luxe

05. Leaves Me Cold

06. Downer

07. Thoughtforms

SIDE B:

01. Baby Talk

02. Thoughtforms

03. Scarlet

04. Bitter

05. Second Sight

06. Etheriel

07. Hey Hey Helen

08. Scarlet

SPOOKY: CAD 3607

SIDE A:

01. Stray

02. Nothing Natural

03. Tiny Smiles

04. Covert

05. Ocean

06. For Love

SIDE B:

01. Superblast

02. Untogether

03. Fantasy

04. Take

05. Laura

06. Monochrome

SPLIT: CAD 3608

SIDE A:

01. Light From A Dead Star

02. Kiss Chase

03. Blackout

04. Hypocrite

05. Lovelife

06. Desire Lines

07. The Invisible Man

SIDE B:

01. Undertow

02. Never-Never

03. Lit Up

04. Starlust

05. When I Die

LOVELIFE: CAD 3609

SIDE A:

01. Ladykillers

02. Heavenly Nobodies

03. 500

04. I've Been Here Before

05. Papasan

06. Single Girl

SIDE B:

01. Ciao!

02. Tralala

03. Last Night

04. Runaway

05. The Childcatcher

06. Olympia

TOPOLINO: CAD 3610

SIDE A:

01. 500 (Shake Baby Shake)

02. I Have The Moon

03. Ex

04. I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend

05. Matador

06. Outside World

SIDE B:

01. I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind

02. Carmen

03. Shut Up

04. Cul De Sac

05. Demystification

06. Tinkerbell

Lush - Ciao! Best Of Lush [12", 2LP]

The compilation album CIAO! BEST OF LUSH was not released on vinyl originally when it came out in 2001. But when LUSH announced this year they were getting back together, 4AD decided it would be a good idea to do so after all, and for the occasion of Black Friday they made a limited coloured edition. I really hope that in the near future they'll do reissues of the regular albums as well, or at least of Split, since that's pretty hard these days to get in good condition for a good price. Same for Lovelife, but musically that's not as appealing as the first two albums - not only to my opinion, but to many others' as well. The label also released a great 5CD box called Chorus, by the way. It contains Lush's complete studio recordings and is definitely recommended if you're not only buying stuff on vinyl. Anyway, it's great that this compilation got the vinyl treatment. In reversed chronological order you hear the best tracks (or at least, sort of) that they ever released, and both the artwork and the red vinyl itself look great. The only thing that could've been done slightly better to my opinion are the sleeve notes, by either adding something about the band getting back together by the same author, or by someone else. Now everything's written in the past tense, about a band that sadly ended when Chris Acland committed suicide. Of course, this is in a way a reissue even though it's the first time it's out on vinyl, so a straight copy of the original release including the original sleeve notes is perfectly understandable. However the reason why it came out now, and the fact that the band is seemingly not planning to let it be a bunch of one-off reunion shows, might as well have been left noticed somewhere on this release. Fact is that 2016 promises to become a great year for Lush fans. A tour, an EP, and who knows what else they'll have in store. I really hope they'll play in Holland, just like Slowdive and Ride did over the past 2 years. Possibly at the Best Kept Secret Festival, like those bands? Fingers crossed!

Label: 4AD

Cat.nr.: CAD2K22

Year of release: 2015

SIDE A:

01. Ladykillers

02. Single Girl

03. Ciao!

04. 500 (Shake Baby Shake)

05. Light From A Dead Star

SIDE B:

01. Love At First Sight

02. Hypocrite

03. Desire Lines

04. Lovelife

SIDE C:

01. When I Die

02. Nothing Natural

03. Untogether

04. For Love

SIDE D:

01. Monochrome

02. De-Luxe

03. Sweetness And Light

04. Thoughtforms

05. Etheriel

Ride - OX4_ The Best Of Ride [12", 2LP]

Now that RIDE has reunited and has just started touring again for the first time since they broke up in '96, this OX4_ THE BEST OF RIDE compilation couldn't have a better timing. Released on red vinyl for the occasion of Record Store Day 2015, and sounding great. I already have the original edition of this release from 2001, but as a pretty big fan of this band -which i'll be seeing two times this year; yay!- i just needed to have this reissue as well.

Label: Rhino
Cat.nr.: 081227955137
Year of release: 2015

SIDE A:
01. Chelsea Girl
02. Drive Blind
03. Like A Daydream
04. Taste

SIDE B:
01. Dreams Burn Down
02. Vapour Trail
03. Unfamiliar

SIDE C:
01. Leave Them All Behind
02. Twisterella
03. OX4

SIDE D:
01. Birdman
02. From Time To Time
03. How Does It Feel To Feel?
04. I Don't Know Where It Comes From
05. Black Nite Crash

The Raveonettes - Whip It On [10", Limited Edition]

The debut release by THE RAVEONETTES, this WHIP IT ON EP, only had a very limited release on vinyl back in 2002 on the small Crunchy Frog label. But last year, 11 years after its original release, Music On Vinyl had the brilliant idea to reissue it as a beautiful 10" record of which the first 1000 copies were on red vinyl in a numbered sleeve. I've got #668.
Some really cool garage rock tunes can be found on this EP, such as Veronica Fever, Cops On Our Tail and my favourite one: Beat City. Funny detail: as stated on the cover, nearly the whole EP is recorded in B-flat minor. I've still never seen The Raveonettes live, by the way. Hopefully that will change some day. Must be a real blast.

Label: Music On Vinyl
Cat.nr.: MOV10008
Year of release: 2013 (originally 2002)

SIDE A:
01. Attack Of The Ghost Riders
02. Veronica Fever
03. Do You Believe Her
04. Chains

SIDE B:
01. Cops On Our Tail
02. My Tornado
03. Bowels Of The Beast
04. Beat City

David Bowie - Waiting In The Wind [12", 2LP, Unofficial]

 

 I bought this bootleg some 27 years ago. I was in high school and had just witnessed my first DAVID BOWIE concert ever (and actually even first rock concert and first stadium concert at the same time), a few months earlier. Even though -looking back at it all- the Glass Spider Tour was certainly not Bowie's best period, i was still thrilled that i finally managed to see my musical hero of the previous four years of my life with my own eyes. The tour's kick-off was in Rotterdam where he played two nights in a row and i was at the very first one on May 30th, 1987. I still lived in the area of Apeldoorn at the time in the middle of Holland, and there was this great record store called Plato. The store has closed since a few years, unfortunately. A few months after the concert i finally dared asking the question that i always wanted to, but never got the courage to do so: did they by any chance have bootleg recordings of Bowie shows? Then they showed me this double LP called WAITING IN THE WIND from under the counter. It was on coloured vinyl, which i had never seen before in my life, and it was a recording of a show in Italy that had taken place only two weeks after that historical event in Rotterdam. Recorded at Stadio Flaminio in Rome, June 15th 1987, to be precise. Obviously, i just had to buy it.

The album is on a label called Cinthia Records of which i never heard before, nor after. The sound quality is actually pretty OK. Which was a relief, because it had cost me a fortune; I spent a few months of pocketmoney on it. It's a shame though that some songs of this show are not on the album. Apparently there was a 3x7" singles box called "Demanding Billy Dolls" released by the same label, which had the songs Fashion, All The Madmen, Big Brother, Heroes, Fame and (obviously) Time, from which lyrics the title for the box was taken. I asked the shop if they could get it, but unfortunately they couldn't, and so i never found one. I wondered for a while if it even existed, but i found some traces on eBay so it really does.
So this is my first ever Bowie bootleg (or even first ever bootleg in general) and my first ever coloured vinyl. Bowie had a lot of premieres in many different aspects of the musical side of my life, it seems ;)
I'm still very happy that i never sold this album. I did that with many of my Bowie vinyls back in the early 90's - to my deepest regret now, as you might understand.

Label: Cinthia Records
Cat.nr.: DRJ 490/491
Year of release: 1987

SIDE A:
01. Up The Hill Backwards
02. Glass Spider
03. Up The Hill Backwards (Reprise)
04. Day In, Day Out
05. Bang Bang
06. Absolute Beginners

SIDE B:
01. Loving The Alien
02. China Girl
03. Scary Monsters
04. Never Let Me Down
05. '87 And Cry

SIDE C:
01. Time Will Crawl
02. Beat Of Your Drum
03. Sons Of The Silent Age
04. Dancing With The Big Boys
05. Zeroes

SIDE D:
01. Let's Dance
02. Blue Jean
03. Modern Love

Monster Movie - Everyone Is A Ghost [12", LP]

Some months ago i wrote about Eternal, the band that Christian Savill was in before he joined Slowdive. Around the year 2000, Christian and Sean Hewson (who played in Eternal as well) formed the band MONSTER MOVIE. They released 5 albums since then, and this EVERYONE IS A GHOST from 2010 is their last one so far. It's pretty electronic, and contains 12 great indie pop songs. Some songs lean towards shoegaze, but it doesn't go much further than that. Can't be compared to Slowdive (nor Eternal), and of course it shouldn't be. The album comes in a high quality gatefold sleeve and is handnumbered to 500 copies; i've got #224. As you can see on the picture it's half grey/half red, splattered vinyl. Looks really cool!

Label: Graveface Records
Cat.nr.: GRAVE048
Year of release: 2010

SIDE A:
01. The World Collapsed
02. Down, Down, Down
03. How The Dead Live
04. Bored Beyond Oblivion
05. All The Hurt Inside
06. Everyone Is A Ghost

SIDE B:
01. In The Morning
02. Silver Knife
03. Look And see
04. Fall
05. Help Me Make It Right
06. A Place In The Mountains

Warpaint - Warpaint [12", 2LP]

This weekend there were two really good albums coming out: Rave Tapes by Mogwai and this self-titled second full length by WARPAINT. While writing this, i noticed that i never wrote anything about their first album The Fool nor about their debut EP, which i also have on vinyl. Might do that within the next few weeks. Anyway, this new album is the best thing i heard in 2014 so far. The year has only just started, but still. The song Love Is To Die was released in October to announce the album and is one of my favourite songs, but also Feeling Alright (with a bit of a the XX vibe), Drive and especially the groovy Disco//very are excellent. The one and only Flood produced this album, and it's noticeable that a top producer was involved. He really did a mighty fine job. The album is less dark, more ethereal (or as they said for themselves in some interview, more sexy) than The Fool. The artwork consists of pictures of the 4 band members, blended into one. The inside covers show the individual pictures. The version that i have is is the limited edition on red vinyl. There's also an etching on side D of the band's logo. Quality stuff, and if there are more albums like this being released during the rest of the year i'll be having a really hard time to choose my 10 favourite albums - just like last year. Not that i mind, though. Keep 'em coming!

Label: Rough Trade
Cat.nr.: RTRADLP680
Year of release: 2014

SIDE A:
01. Intro
02. Keep It Healthy
03. Love Is To Die
04. Hi

SIDE B:
01. Biggy
02. Teese
03. Disco//very
04. Go In

SIDE C:
01. Feeling Alright
02. CC
03. Drive
04. Son

SIDE D:
etching

David Bowie / Iggy Pop / Roxy Music / Syd Barrett - The Photography Of Mick Rock [7", Book, Tin]

A few years ago, four MICK ROCK photograph books in 7" tins were released, each carrying a 7" vinyl single by the artist featured in the book. The man was mostly known (to me at least) for his pictures of DAVID BOWIE, but he also made some really nice ones of IGGY POP, SYD BARRETT and various glam rock bands like ROXY MUSIC. These tins were released as limited editions and were rather expensive, but lately they have been available on offer for a very reasonable price. The 7"es are each on a different colour vinyl and feature not necessarily the artist's biggest hits, yet pretty cool songs nevertheless. Each book has 128 pages which makes it a pretty heavy package, but definitely worth buying it if you're into high class rock photography. I decided to buy all four of them and this is what the 7"es are about:

David Bowie

Label: EMI
Cat.nr.: 5099964038070           
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Starman

SIDE B:
01. Suffragette City

Roxy Music

Label: EMI
Cat.nr.: 5099964038179          
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Virginia Plain

SIDE B:
01. The Numberer

Iggy Pop

Label: EMI
Cat.nr.: 5099964038278          
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Success

SIDE B:
01. The Passenger

Syd Barrett

Label: EMI
Cat.nr.: 5099964037974          
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Octopus

SIDE B:
01. Golden Hair

The Verve - The Verve E.P. [12"]

Not really a fan of latter-day THE VERVE, but their first album A Storm In Heaven and the EP's around that are pretty cool. This clear red 12" was released for Record Store Day 2013 and is a first-time-on-vinyl reproduction of what was previously a US-only compilation CD from 1992, simply called THE VERVE E.P. It combines tracks from their early singles All In The Mind, Gravity Grave and She's A Superstar. Nice and trippy psychedelic stuff! I particularly like the mellow Gravity Grave that has a flow like it could go on forever, and She's A Superstar, with guitars that remind me of Felt's "Primitive Painters". Couldn't find any info on how limited this release is, but it's a one-off pressing anyway.

Label: Hut Recordings
Cat.nr.: HUTLPUS 1
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Gravity Grave (Edit)
02. A Man Called Sun
03. She's A Superstar (Edit)

SIDE B:
01. Endless Life
02. Feel

Team Ghost - Terre Brûlée [12"]

This TERRE BRÛLÉE EP by TEAM GHOST was released for Record Store Day 2013. It features the singles that were taken so far from the Rituals album (Dead Film Star and Curtains), a slow song called Tonight Is Magic and the title track, which fills the whole B-side with its 25 minutes. It's an instrumental track which consists of various soundscapes and almost ambient themes. Only 300 copies were made and i'm happy that i could get my hands on one.

Label: wSphere
Cat.nr.: 3271466           
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Dead Film Star
02. Curtains
03. Tonight Is Magic

SIDE B:
01. Terre Brûlée

Tame Impala - Tame Impala [12"]

The self-titled EP by TAME IMPALA has been on my wishlist for quite some time, but was pretty much impossible to find for a normal price. Luckily the people at Modular decided to reissue the EP (originally on 10" format, MODVL107) as a 12" with two extra tracks for Record Store Day 2013. They made 5000 copies on red vinyl, and since April 20th i'm the happy owner of one of those. The bonus tracks have been previously released on limited 2CD editions of the Innerspeaker album: Wander on the Australian edition, and Forty One Mosquitoes Flying In Formation on the UK edition. First time on vinyl for both, as far as i know.


Label: Modular
Cat.nr.: MODVL174
Year of release: 2013

SIDE A:
01. Desire Be Desire Go
02. Skeleton Tiger
03. Half Full Glass Of Wine

SIDE B:
01. Forty One Mosquitoes Flying In Formation
02. Slide Through My Fingers
03. Wander

The Black Angels - Another Nice Pair [12", LP]

ANOTHER NICE PAIR is a compilation album of THE BLACK ANGELS' first two EP's (The Black Angels and the Exit EP), issued for Record Store Day 2011 in a limited run of 2500 copies on red vinyl. I didn't have those EP's so i was very happy that they re-released these songs. The band has a new album coming out soon now, so who knows they might release something for RSD13 as well. Since 2011 they've always done so: together with this compilation they also released the Phosgene Nightmare 10" EP in 2011, and in 2012 there was the Watch Out Boy 7". So fingers crossed for both a good new album and something interesting for RSD13, 'cause i can't get enough of this band.

Label: Light In The Attic
Cat.nr.: LITA 066
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Black Grease
02. The First Vietnamese War
03. Winter '68
04. Manipulation

SIDE B:
01. Surf City (Revisited)
02. Paladin's Last Stand
03. No Satisfaction
04. Black Angel Exit / Shine

Lush - 500 (Shake Baby Shake) [7"]

The third and final single from Lovelife (and therefore the last single LUSH ever released) is 500 (SHAKE BABY SHAKE). The song has a somewhat sixties' (Beach Boys, Byrds) vibe to it and it's my favourite of the three singles. But the B-side is even better: a cover of a song originally by The Magnetic Fields called I Have The Moon. A great song and as far as i'm concerned this alone was worth buying the whole set of three singles (this one, Single Girl and Ladykillers) at the Utrecht record fair a while ago.


Label: 4AD
Cat.nr.: AD 6009
Year of release: 1996

SIDE A:
01. 500 (Shake Baby Shake)

SIDE B:
01. I Have The Moon

Comeback Kid - Turn It Around [12", LP]

Nowadays i don't listen to hardcore a lot anymore, and the last hardcore show i've been to must have been around 3 or 4 years or so, but TURN IT AROUND by COMEBACK KID is one of my favourite records from those days. I've seen them live a dozen times. Always a fantastic show; simply one big energy bomb. This is the band's debut album from the time when Jeremy and Andrew were still in Figure Four and Comeback Kid was "their other band". An amazing album.

I own 3 copies from the first pressing. The yellow one on the picture above is the rarest one, with only 100 copies made of that colour. Then there were 300 made on red vinyl:

 And last but not least, 400 made of so-called "blood splatter" (clear and red) vinyl:

Also 200 on white vinyl from that first pressing exist, and 1100 on grey vinyl from a second pressing on Give Me Strength. Best Times Records from Portugal made a picture disc a year later, in 2004.
Last but not least, Facedown Records (who released the CD version) did a vinyl pressing in 2011 with the following colours and quantities: 100 on black, 200 on pink, 300 on clear and 400 on green vinyl. In the old days, i would have collected all colours but i rather spend my money on other things nowadays. Doesn't mean that i don't treasure these three ;)


Label: Give Me Strength
Cat.nr.: GMS-003
Year of release: 2003

SIDE A:
01. All In A Year
02. Give And Take
03. Die Tonight
04. Changing Face
05. Playing The Part
06. Always

SIDE B:
01. Step Ahead
02. Operative Word
03. Biting Tongue
04. Something Less
05. Never Fade
06. Without A Word
07. Lorelei

Boris - Pink [12", 2LP]

I own a couple of BORIS vinyl releases and i'm sure they all will be featured on this blog sooner or later, but their album PINK is still my favourite. Going from plain rock 'n roll to drone to shoegaze to sludge to noise to post-metal to spacerock, Boris is never boring to say the least. My favourite track on this album's gotta be Farewell, a song that sounds like a mixture of Isis, Jesu and Sigur Rós. Later this year they'll be playing the State-X New Forms Festival in Den Haag and i think i'll take the opportunity to finally check them out live. Must be a blast.
The copy i own of this record is on deep red vinyl from the third pressing, of which 1000 were made.


Label: Southern Lord
Cat.nr.: sunn55
Year of release: 2006

SIDE A:
01. Pink
02. Woman On The Screen
03. Nothing Special
04. Blackout

SIDE B:
01. Electric
02. Six Three Times
03. Afterburner
04. Pseudo-Bread

SIDE C:
01. My Machine
02. Farewell

SIDE D:
01. Just Abandoned My-Self

Isis - In The Absence Of Truth [12", 2LP]

IN THE ABSENCE OF TRUTH was the follow-up to Panopticon, which i still think is the best album ISIS ever made. But this is a great album as well - don't get me wrong. Especially the drumming really stands out. Like Panopticon, it's again less metal than the previous albums and also the vocals are more clean. My copy's one of the first pressing on Conspiracy Records, the European edition. In the USA it came out on Robotic Empire. Conspiracy pressed 2000 copies and 500 of them were clear/red splattered. Nice and thick quality stuff like all of Conspiracy's releases.


Label: Conspiracy Records
Cat.nr.: CORE 045
Year of release: 2006

SIDE A:
01. Wrists Of Kings
02. Not In Rivers, But In Drops

SIDE B:
01. Dulcinea
02. Over Root And Thorn

SIDE C:
01. 1000 Shards
02. All Out Of Time, All Into Space
03. Holy Tears

SIDE D:
01. Firdous E Bareen
02. Garden Of Light

Japan - Quiet Life [12", 3LP]

QUIET LIFE by JAPAN is really a great album. It was released in 1979 and it captures the sound of their transition period, from being a somewhat punky glam rock band to an arty and experimental atmospheric New Romantic outfit. The album has danceable new wave synth tracks (like the title track, produced by Giorgio Moroder) but also tracks like Despair that would not be misplaced if they'd have appeared on Gentlemen Take Polaroids, the album's successor. Plus it has this great cover version of All Tomorrow's Parties of course (originally by the Velvet Underground). The picture above is my copy of the original 1979 pressing on Hansa.

The album has been re-pressed until 1983. Since the introduction of the CD, there was no vinyl reissue. But finally, almost 30 years after the last reissue of the album on vinyl, Music On Vinyl released a version that has not only the album but also 2 extra discs, 15 tracks, of bonus material. B-sides of singles, remixes and special extended versions. Plus a replica of the Japanese insert with liner notes is included. All of this on audiophile heavy vinyl; and to top it off, the first 1000 copies were on red vinyl and numbered.  It's one of my favourite reissues on Music On Vinyl, i can say.

Quiet Life is also the album where you'll hear the distinctive sound of Mick Karn's fretless bass at first. I got to learn them from their later (and last studio-) album Tin Drum, and this pretty unique sound, at least in pop music, was a big part of what appealed to me in their sound. Sadly a few weeks before this vinyl reissue came out, he died from cancer. Both on the original as on the reissue, he is featured on the back cover of the album. Music On Vinyl did a great job in honouring him by putting this text "In memory of Mick Karn (July 24 1958 - January 4 2011)" right underneath his portrait. It was a last-minute adaption in the artwork because the album was already scheduled for February 2011 and the sleeves had nearly been printed, when the news of his death reached the world.

original album:

Label: Hansa
Cat.nr.: 201.261
Year of release: 1979

SIDE A:
01. Quiet Life
02. Fall In Love With Me
03. Despair
04. In-Vogue

SIDE B:
01. Halloween
02. All Tomorrow's Parties
03. Alien
04. The Other Side Of Life


reissue:

Label: Music On Vinyl
Cat.nr.: MOVLP176
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Quiet Life
02. Fall In Love With Me
03. Despair
04. In-Vogue

SIDE B:
01. Halloween
02. All Tomorrow's Parties
03. Alien
04. The Other Side Of Life

SIDE C:
01. Quiet Life (Extended Version)
02. Quiet Life (Original UK 7" Version)
03. European Son (12" Version)
04. I Second That Emotion (7" Version)

SIDE D:
01. Life In Tokyo (Remix)
02. Life In Tokyo (Extended Remix)
03. Life In Tokyo (Special Remix)
04. Life In Tokyo (Part 2)

SIDE E:
01. A Foreign Place
02. Quiet Life (UK 1981 7" Version)
03. All Tomorrow's Parties (7" Version)
04. Life In Tokyo Theme

SIDE F:
01. All Tomorrow's Parties (Steve Nye Extended Remix)
02. I Second That Emotion (Steve Nye Extended Remix)
03. European Son (Steve Nye Extended Remix)

Snowburner - Snowburner EP [7"]

SNOWBURNER is a new groovy and bluesy stoner band from Holland, consisting of guys who used to play in punk and hardcore bands such as Daily Fire, Omission, Point Of Few and All For Nothing. This EP is their first release and it's a damn good one as well. Two very catchy songs on it, and another two come on the free download that you get with this release. Very well-produced and great artwork (by Mehdi "Godspill" Rouchiche) to top it all off, so definitely a very promising result for a debut release. Numbered copies on red vinyl, limited to 300 pcs.


Label: Black Death
Cat.nr.: BLCKDTH027
Year of release: 2012

SIDE A:
01. The Greenhouse Effect

SIDE B:
01. The Jester

Jesu - Sun Down / Sun Rise [12"]

Pressed on really nice clear vinyl with red in the middle, this SUN DOWN / SUN RISE 12" by JESU has a lengthy song on each side. Sun Down starts with some heavy riffing before it turns into a shoegaze song. After a while it fades out and then an ambient part starts. Sun Rise has less variety throughout the song and sounds much more electronical, but is still a great song. My copy is part of the second pressing, with only 300 made of this particular color.

Label: Aurora Borealis
Cat.nr.: ABX011
Year of release: 2007

SIDE A:
01. Sun Down

SIDE B:
01. Sun Rise

Astrobrite - Crush [12", LP]

About half a year ago i ran into some songs online by a band called ASTROBRITE, and from that moment on i knew i had to buy this album. CRUSH was apparently originally released in 2001 on CD only on Clairecords, and 10 years later BLVD Records released it on vinyl. They made 600 copies: 300 on black, and 300 on red (which is the version i have). A great underground shoegaze album that definitely deserved a vinyl release!

Label: BLVD Records
Cat.nr.: BLVD001
Year of release: 2011

SIDE A:
01. Crasher
02. Radiofriendly
03. Bottlerocket
04. Happysad
05. Overdriver
06. Lemondrop

SIDE B:
01. Hopefully
02. Blown
03. Crushed
04. Butterfly kiss
05. Comet
06. Peachfuzz