Drain Is Your Friend

What a ride it's been for Drain. The band got signed to Revelation on the strength of a performance at Sound & Fury 2019, and with their debut LP 'California Cursed' coming out pretty much at the start of the Covid pandemic, they weren't able to tour for a long, long time. But once the world started moving again, Drain started playing again, and quickly got signed by Epitaph. Basically, they blew up, and I'm sure their story will run for a while yet. But given their success, Rev keep selling out of their LP and having to get more pressed. I finally got around to picking up the latest pressing, on clear purple vinyl .

There were over 2000 copies made of this one, which makes it the most common version there is. But at the same time, it's quite possibly the prettiest. If you're the kind of person who hasn't picked this record up yet, and isn't overly fussed about which copy you get, this could be a good one to grab whilst it's still available.

Anyway, I decided to get all my copies out for a group pic. I have a lot of time on my hands these days, so taking photos of records makes for a good afternoon's entertainment.

The top 3 colours in the photo are the first press, and the second row shows the 2nd, 3rd and 4th pressings.

The band's second LP is now recorded, so will be out at some point in the next few months. At least with it being on Epitaph I probably won't feel compelled to try to buy every version there is.