Poverty Map

I got this a while ago. A whiiiile ago, as in Record Store Day. If you all remember, Deathwish Inc. did a couple "RSD exclusive" records to join in on all the fun, this being one of them. This was actually kind of a blind buy, and is the first recordings I own from either of these two bands. Here's the Loma Prieta/Raein split 7", ultra clear vinyl, 45 RPM.

I have always wanted to pick up a Loma Prieta album, but for some reason never got around to it. SO this seeing that this record was coming out seemed as good a time as any to bite the bullet, and I'm glad I did. The 4 songs on here (the last one being a cover of Black Flag's - "Spray Paint"" are a great distorted mess of emoviolence/power screamo/whatever, tons of disonance, and a lot of skramz influence. Very cool and unique sounding riffs too, there's a lot of creativity here. I dig it a lot, very solid stuff. I'm going to try to pick up some more of their stuff soon. Wasn't to hot on the Raein track though, I gotta say. It was pretty and had some shimmery guitar tones, but it built up to practically nothing. Probably would have benefited to have an additional track. Oh well.

Nice, simplistic, very tidy presentation in a glued sleeve. Love it. The ultra clear vinyl is limited to 300 and was the rarest variant in the first press.

~VII

Heroin

Truth be told, I'm not that well versed in the screamo/emotive hardcore genre. I'm not against it, there are just other albums I would buy before a La Dispute record for example. That being said, this 7" was sitting in my local shop for a while, and I was able to get it for like 2 bucks, so I figured why not. Apparently this is a pretty highly regarded band in the screamo genre. Heroin - "s/t"/"Paper Bag EP", black vinyl, 45 RPM.

4 tracks on here. Pretty fast, punky stuff with some d-beat momentum. I honestly don't remember much about the music, cause I've only listened to it once. Don't really know who else I can compare it too. Orchid, maybe.

Pretty nifty DIY packaging with all sorts of stamps, screen printing and stickers on it. Now the reason this thing is sometimes called the "Paper Bag EP" is because the sleeve is actually made out of a brown paper grocery bag. I've never seen that before! I can only imagine how long it must have taken to construct all these sleeves.

Some of a store logo inside the sleeve.

Not the best, but it's cool. I currently have my eyes on a really awesome Orchid split, which I may be getting soon.

~VII