On my trip to California in 2022 I picked up a great compilation called 'Nardcore For Life'. It was a comp of bands from Oxnard, and my stand out favourite was a song by a band called No Motiv, who at the time I knew absolutely nothing about.
Well, on my last trip to California last month, I visited Oxnard for a very short amount of time one day, and briefly stopped in a record shop called Salzer's Records (which the internet tells me is actually in Ventura, not Oxnard). I found one record that I wanted, which was a No Motiv LP. I had previously looked for this on the internet and knew that the price they had it for was good, so I grabbed it quicksmart.
This is the band's second album, and it originally came out in 1998 on Vagrant Records, a label most known for blowing up at the end of the 90s due to bands like The Get Up Kids and Saves The Day. Musically, No Motiv are in a similar ballpark I would say, and listening to this over 25 years later, it's strange to ponder how this record didn't blow up in quite the same way.
This version here is a 20 year anniversary pressing of this record from 2019. There were only 300 made, so I feel pretty stoked to have found a sealed copy for new record price. The only slight niggle is that this is self released. It isn't actually on Vagrant Records. So I kinda still want to get an original first pressing copy, even thought they are all just on black vinyl.
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