Americas Hardcore

Following on from my last post. Here's another record that I had no intention of buying till seeing another blog fiend write about it. Marcus is to blame this time. Honestly, I wonder how many record sales Marcus is responsible for because it wouldn't be the first time I've bought something after reading about it on his blog and I'm sure I'm not alone.

This is the Americas Hardcore Volume 2 Comp from Triple B Records. As I say, I wasn't going to get this but after seeing what Marcus had to say on it and seeing the way the comp had been treated by BBB with it's superb packaging and inlay booklet with every band getting a page like the great comps of old I couldn't help but feel like I wanted it.

This appeared with the Backtrack record in the GoTheDistance distro a couple of days later so it seemed almost written in the stars that I should pick it up and at a good price. Really glad I did now, this thing looks superb and as I've already mentioned I love the booklet that comes with it. All compilations should have something similar, it should be the law.

 

This is the blue version of the vinyl which although out of 1015 and the most common version actually looks really spot on so I'm all good with that.

This is a really good compilation. I was familiar with most of the bands but there's a few that I wasn't which is always the point of a good compilation to turn you on to new bands you may have overlooked.

We've Got To Disengage

I don't really know how it happened but I realised today that I somehow didn't blog about an album I got last year. This -

Disengage - Expressions. I really enjoyed this album, it's a total ripper so I'm not sure why I didn't write about it at the time, in fact I thought I had. I must have got it in one of those months where loads of records came through almost all at once. 12 tracks in about as many minutes.

Here's some late  photos of the record and it's sweet old skool feeling sleeve. Which surely takes it's inspiration from Uniform Choice?

880 on Black like this one and 120 on White. The white one looks especially nice but I missed out on one of those unfortunately.

So moving on. What prompted me to realise that I hadn't featured this previously, was this week's arrival of a record I'd been hoping to grab a copy of since I got Expressions. Disengages previous release Look Back.

I only caught on to the band just as the full length was coming out so by the time I looked to see if I could grab this too it was sold out. It finally appeared on eBay a week or so ago though and I was finally able to nab it. Stoked!

Once again the layout and art work for this thing is gloriously simple. This 7" EP that came out in 2010, whilst not as instant as the LP, is great too.

Sweet looking black vinyl with the Wishing Well style centre labels. 362 on Black with this sleeve. Another 38 have a record release show sleeve.