Third Truth

For my next bunxh of posts, I'll be posting up the records I bought at Wanna Hear It Records last month. I went there to pick up a Bane test press and ended up coming away with a bunch of 6131 Records releases and then a whole bunch of stuff that I found in the shop... and believe me, I didn't even gget to look through everything. I'm sure I could have found a whole load of other stuff if I'd have had another hour or so. Anyway, here we go...

Given that my last post was a Strife LP test press, I thought I would follow up with another Strife record that I simply could not resist buying. This is a repress of the best Strife record, 'One Truth', which was pressed on 'Blue, Black & Grey Starburst' vinyl.

I took a look at the record in the store and immediately knew I wanted it. I'd never seen this colour before, but think it looks amazing, and a pretty good colour match to the artwork. I think this record proves that swirl vinyl can look good, but what is interesting to me is that this record was clearly pressed at a US plant, and there are subtle differences to US pressed records and records pressed at the plant in Europe that everyone uses. As I have always said, the US pressed swirls look good whilst the Euro pressed swirls look cheap.

According to discogs, this was a Newbury Comics exclusive from 2020, limited to 150 copies.

I have owned both original colour vinyl pressings of this record pretty much since they came out, and they both come in the gatefold sleeve. This pressing right here does not come in a gatefold sleeve, but instead there's a huge fold out poster included which has most of the photos from the inside of the gatefold.

I listened to this record again today and I struggle to wrap my head around the fact that it is almost 30 years since this record came out. I remember buying it, and then seeing them live a few months later. How the hell is that almost three decades ago?