Guided Tour

Without doubt one of the most anticipated new releases of 2024 is the third album by High Vis. It was announced back at the end of July that this was coming out, and I was not expecting it at all. It felt to me that the band had been pretty active since their last record ('Blending') dropped in late 2022, partly due to it being such a huge success. The band has played a lot of shows and played overseas a lot, so I was surprised to find out that somehow they had also written another record. But what a cool surprise. In a rare move for me, I preordered immediately as I didn't want to miss out.

'Guided Tour' was officially released on 18 October, and arrived at my door on the same day. I was impressed that whoever dispatched this obviously planned to make sure that people like me who ordered a physical copy got it on the same day it came out, so we could enjoy it at the same time as people who used new fangled technology to stream songs through the ether.

At the point I preordered, all colours were available and I had a choice. I ignored any splatter sounding colours, and then ended up choosing the 'onyx' vinyl because it was described as the 'artist version', which was not available through the same link as all the other versions. I figured that the artist version and the harder to find link would mean that this would be the coolest one to have. But if the info on discogs is correct, it seems that this is the second most common. Oh well.

I've had this for just over a month now, and I have played it every single day without fail. And even though I'm enjoying it, I still don't feel that it has grabbed me in the same way as 'Blending', although I guess it's always going to be a tall order for any band to follow up their breakout record. Still, this is a solid record, and I'm nowhere near bored of it, which is rare these days as my interest lasts on average three weeks. So I'm sure this has a lot more mileage in it yet.