Just Accept It

At some point last year Revelation pressed a No Escape discography onto vinyl. I was pretty happy about this on paper because their only full length, 'Just Accept It', came out as a CD only release. It was one of the earliest hardcore records that I heard / bought, as it came out around the time that I was first getting into hardcore and straight edge. I got the Turning Point / No Escape split 7" and it was a natural next step to pick up the No Escape album, despite it being on a CD. However, as much as I love those songs, I always thought that it sounded awful. So all these years later, it's cool that it has come out on vinyl and also been remastered so that it sounds much bigger.

This contains all of their studio recorded output, which includes the full length, the two songs from the split 7" with Turning Point, the demo, and the song from the 'Rebuilding' comp. In total there are 15 songs here.

This also comes with a huge booklet. However, this feels like a little bit of a disappointment. It has a brief intro by Tim Singer, but other than that it's just basically a big lyric sheet. The booklet contains a bunch of photos and then the lyrics to the songs. But there are no other writings by anyone other than Tim's intro. So all in all it provided about 5 minutes of entertainment.

There were three different versions made, so of course I had to pick up all of them.

Shown in the photo above are:
Blue (RevHQ Exclusive /200)
'Coke Bottle Clear' /250)
Green (Retail Store Exclusive /250)

Overall a really great summary of this band's output that sounds great, but where I feel slightly puzzled is to the fact that they got back together to record new songs which were released as a 6 song 12" in 2021. There is no mention of this in the piece Tim wrote in the booklet, which makes me wonder - did he forget, or did I imagine the whole thing?