Friday, 17 April 2026

Deprogram

One of the most difficult questions you could ask me these days is 'how many Planet On A Chain LPs do you own?'. About three years ago nobody had a clue who they were, and now they have more albums that some bands that have been around for twenty years. The rate of output of this band is quite unbelievable. The first LP 'Boxed In' came out in 2023, then 'Culture Of Death' appeared fourteen months later in 2024, and then a third LP 'Ritual Routine' came out last year (2025).

Oh yeah, and then there was another one that I completely forgot about. 'Deprogram' was originally a digital only release back in 2022, and then after 'Boxed In' came out and did quite well, Rev decided to press 'Deprogram' onto vinyl. Somehow this one kinda passed me by. So here I am finally catching up with it a couple of years later.

This is the 'Translucent Light Blue With Black And Dark Blue Splatter' (which could probably have just been called 'blue splatter'). This is the RevHQ exclusive colour out of 200 copies, and is long sold out.

The other colours are 'Translucent Green' (/600), and 'Translucent Blue' (/200) which was for shops. As a set of three, they look pretty good together, and go quite nicely with the cover art (well, more the back cover).

Each time I get a new POAC record I think its the best one yet. I really like 'Ritual Routine' and thought it was their best, but I have already moved onto this one as my POAC record of choice. I guess my favourite is really whichever one I am listening to right now. At least, that's how it seems.

Oh, and to end this post how I started it, I just checked my spreadsheet and it turns out that I now have 21 POAC records, of which 19 are 12"s. But in the time it has taken me to write this post and for you to have read it, probably another couple of albums have been released.

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