So I'm still living in a world where I religiously buy everything that Revelation Records put out, like it's 1995 or something. This means that now and again I end up buying something that I would never had listened to otherwise, like the New Found Glory record I got last year. The most recent example of this is this 'Don Fury Sessions' LP by Glassjaw.
There were 1,998 copies of this pressed, all on yellow vinyl, and only available directly from Rev, apparently. Surprisingly for me, it completely sold out pretty damn quick. I guess Glassjaw and records are more popular than I ever knew.
I had previously thought that I had never heard Glassjaw before in my life, but when I played this I immediately felt that the first song sounded familiar. I used to go out with a girl around 2002/3 who was into bands like this, so I'm pretty sure I have heard Glassjaw before via her playing a CD in a car. Kinda crazy how all these years later I still recognise the song.
Anyway, even though I never really had any interest in this band in the past, I can see why they are/were popular. Their sound takes inspiration from a few different bands / sounds, and listening in 2025 it sounds pretty fresh. This record is made up of demo recordings from 1998 when apparently Don Fury was trying to get them signed to his own label (which until receiving this, I had no idea he had) and is in theory a one time pressing. This has been an unexpected and enjoyable record, and without doubt is likely to push me into checking out more by this band, roughly twenty five years after everyone else, which seems to be the kind of pace I move at these days.
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