die young (tx) - loss 7"
since i have their debut full length sitting on my shelf i was keen to get more of their vinyl output into my hands. first thing i came across was the 'loss' 7" from 2008. a more recent release since their break up in 2009, i think. as i saw it at underdog i couldn't pass on this. especially as it's probably catching dust there for five years. the price was good too. so there was no reason for me not to throw some money at the salesman.
the music on this is just great! intense and crisp metallic hardcore. better than on 'graven images'. mainly because the sound is more organic. on 'graven images' especially the vocals sounded like they put several layers over one another which really felt artificial. this time it's much better. don't know why bands do this anyway. get a new singer if he can't get it done, man! check out the title track of this piece of plastic. cool solo.
pressing information is vague on this one. discogs tells me that there is a grey marbled version limited to 400. deadformat.net lets me know that there is a blue version of the first press without numbers and 130 clear gold copies of the second pressing as last show press with special cover. oh yeah, and some white vinyl again without numbers. musik-sammler.de feeds me with the best information so far. 500 copies of the first press all together. 100 trash-purple vinyl (probably the blue vinyl at dead format?) and 400 trash/grey (hello discogs). 500 copies of the second press. 200 on white and 300 on orange, which is the clear gold i assume. don't know if they took 130 of these orange a.k.a. clear gold vinyl copies for the last show or if they pressed them specially for the occasion. but i think i did a sufficient job with this pressing info mess already. do some work on your own, ok?!
a389 records. 2008.
