I pretty much had a year off in 2025, but I'm now right back on my 2024 mission to pick up old Sub Pop releases again. The late 80s and the early 90s were such a great and exciting time for music that there are so many forgotten gems out there that still sound good in 2026. And some of these things are really very affordable in the current day, which is a nice bonus.
Blood Circus was one of the first bands that Sub Pop put out. They had a 7" that was the second 7" that the label released. Their full length, 'Primal Rock Therapy' was then the ninth 12" that they put out, back in January 1989.
Apparently the first 1,000 copies of this LP were pressed on red vinyl. It also originally had some kind of hype sticker on the shrinkwrap, but sadly this copy doesn't have it. The sticker simply had the name of the band and the record, probably as whoever designed the front cover art didn't believe that text was in any way necessary.
Reading about this record all of these years later, it seems that the band didn't survive much longer after this came out, apparently partly due to the terrible reception this received. I'm really surprised by this because, to my ears in 2026, this sounds pretty good. It is without doubt a text book example of the late 80s Seattle grunge sounds that became huge just a couple of years later.
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