Never cross a black cat with a Gypsy and the Out Crowd

Impulsive purchases, I talked about it a little in my last post. Well here's another one. Gypsy - Giant's Despair is my surprise record of the year, I just keep going back to it. It's just a great record that kinda suits any musical mood I'm in, so if I'm pondering what to listen to and don't instantly decide I tend just to reach for that record. I've always been a tad miffed that I joined the party late on them and missed out on some of the slightly more limited pressings. So when Six Feet Under posted up some left over records from the This Is Hardcore fest I instinctively bought one of the Giant's Despair versions.

Now the impulsive part to this is that this version is only really different because of the TIH stamp on the inner sleeve. Also, it's again on the same white vinyl I bought previously. However it's still a rare version of a great LP. Limited to 50 copies and I'm still strangely pleased with it.

 Less impulsive was a TIH version of a record I'd been meaning to buy the standard version of. Wrong Answer - Cross A Black Cats Path.

This is a cracking release and as I was waiting to buy the normal version anyway I picked up this version which has a different limited cover and also as per the Gypsy record a TIH stamp on the back.

It's again limited to 50 copies and is on what is usually described as Coke bottle clear vinyl.

I seem to have written about this band loads on this blog but in reality I think it's only twice. Six Feet Under also had a copy of the Out Crowd / Written Off split release from 2011.

So I think this is the third release I have from Out Crowd and they are a crackingly consistent band, I like all their stuff. Written Off are a band I've not heard anything by previously but they are also good. This was released by Like Glue Records and Iron Mind Crew Records.

This is the red pressing of the record, no idea of numbers though.

I think I'm only missing Out Crowd's 7" demo now, I should track that down really.

Back In With The Out Crowd

A month or so ago I wrote about Out Crowd and their Reaper Records debut release 'Just Us'. I was impressed by it, especially as it was a band I knew next to nothing about, so when I was looking through the Anger Battery Records store and saw this I couldn't help but pick it up.

I believe this is a new release entitled 'Our Struggle' of the bands earlier 2011 demo and some other tracks from a split release. It's issued by Stomp Records.  The demo tracks as is probably to be expected suffer from some fairly tinny sounding production. It's interesting though and worth hearing the progression to the 'Just Us' release.

I like the art work on this, it's simple and reminds me of Backtracks art work which is a winner in my book.

Out Crowd

I pre-ordered this new release from Reaper months ago (i think) and then forgot all about it, so I was surprised when a package from them came through the letter box. Truth be told I'd ordered it on the strength of Reapers roster, I'd never heard the band before.

This is Out Crowd and their new 7" release Just Us. It's pretty good stuff actually, fast snotty old school hardcore, which is a bit of a change from some or Reapers recent releases. Not that's a bad thing at all.
Looks like i pre-ordered the more limited version on red which is of 400, Theres a green version of 1600 too. I don't know why I didn't order both actually. I'm thinking this was a late night half asleep purchase.

What does that centre hands drawing remind me of? Insted - Bonds of Friendship maybe?