Nowhere Nearer

My journey through some of the semi recent Indecision Records releases continues with one that was a huge surprise for me. Yesterday I posted about the benefits of the Raised Wrong 12", today's post is another band fronted by John Pettibone which goes by the name of Heiress. The record is titled 'Nowhere Nearer' and is an interesting example of judging a book (record) by its cover and getting it all wrong.

When I saw the cover art for this and read the name of the band I immediately set expectations to low. I mean, based purely on these pictures, what would you think?

Within seconds of listening to one song online I was ordering a copy. This is an absolutely mammoth record. Without trying to draw any pointless comparisons to other bands, I'm just going to say that this sounds like the soundtrack to knocking your house down with a sledgehammer... slowly. I still have a couple more records to post in this series, but this is probably my favourite of the Indecision releases that I have picked up this year. And even though I had never heard of Heiress before this, and assumed they were a new band, I was surprised to see on discogs that they have been going since 2006 and have pumped out 4 other LPs in that time, which I am looking forward to exploring at some point.

There were only 300 of these made in total, with this version (clear with grey splatter) being the rarest colour out of 100 copies. There's also a less attractive grey with black splatter (out of 200), with both colours still available at Indecision store if you fancy checking this out.