Nascent

I never really bought CDs because somehow I always knew that they were garbage, but now and again I stooped to having to buy something because I loved the band and there was no vinyl pressed. Over the last few years, I have managed to add some records to the collection that used to be on CD only, but the popularity of records these last few years has led to labels digging up old releases and pressing them on vinyl for the first time. An example that I picked up recently is the debut release by Joshua. This originally came out as a self-titled CD in 1996, put out by Immigrant Sun Records, and a couple of years ago the label started back up, and in 2024 it pressed the Joshua EP to vinyl for the first time.

As much as I generally dislike swirly vinyl colours, for some reason I think this one looks ok. It might be something to do with the colours being reasonable choices, as they go ok with the artwork.

The original CD (which I could not be bothered to go upstairs and fish out for a picture) came in a brown cardstock wallet, so the LP sleeve is a pretty good homage to that, which I like. It definitely shows that someone tried hard to recreate the original, in a larger size.

I really love the original release. This band put out this CD and then got snapped up by Doghouse Records, where they put out a 7" and an LP. This was back in the era when Doghouse had started putting out records by The Get Up Kids. I can sing the songs from this record word for word. That said, this vinyl version is a bit of a Frankensteain release. Rather than just release it as was, the vinyl version has been retitled 'Nascent', and some extra songs have been added. There are two songs that were originally on their demo (which absolutely rock - they remind me of Shift or early Quicksand), and then there are two more songs that were originally on a later release. Now, it would make sense if the original 6 songs were on one side and the extra songs on the other side. But instead we get 5 of the original songs on one side, and the other song from the original release is then on Side B along with the 4 additional songs.

There were only 221 copies pressed, with 100 copies of this colour and then 100 of another colour, and then an additional 21 copies on a different colour which were exclusive to Limited To One Records in NYC. Well worth checking out if you like 90s post hardcore / emo and songs you can sing along to.