A couple of years ago I picked up a new release on Rev by a newish band called Spaced. I really liked that record, and also picked up their earlier full length, 'Spaced Jams' too. And then last year they released a follow up 12" titled 'No Escape'. I figured that I would pick one up, and have recently got around to it.
As is the case with most releases these days, there were a whole range of vinyl colours pressed, with none of them looking particularly attractive as far as I could tell. In the end I went with this 'Yellow and Black Ice Cloudy' version (why the fuck we need the words 'ice cloudy' in that description, I don't know) because it is the rarest, and was the easiest for me to get my hands on. But clearly it does not go particularly well with the (terrible) cover art.
Despite this record scoring low on the aesthetic scale, it does do very well on the music front. Without doubt this band is just getting better and better as they go on, and in my opinion this is their best release yet. Yup, this is a really great record, and without doubt my current go to when I need something at the harder end of the spectrum. Sadly, however, it's quite short. There are five songs here and they are over in just over ten minutes, so this could easily have been a 7"... if it weren't for the fact that 7"s aren't really in fashion anymore. Overall, a great EP, but there probably should have been more songs given the cost of 12"s these days.
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Thanks, I totally missed this EP, I liked the LP on Rev, but somehow this didn't pop up on my radar. Pure Noise has some amazing releases last year but somehow the label barely shows up on my radar. Maybe I am not the target audience.
There isn't a single thing on how this looks that makes me want to purchase this.
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