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Hello fellow Sorry Staters! Not too much going on in my world, except the obvious that I seem to mention every week. It just seems to continue to get more daunting to process and think about the political climate of the world, so sometimes I just need to shut down, turn it off, and get off of social media for a little while to give my brain and anxiety a little break. They recently announced a festival with a handful of dates called Slide Away Festival. I mention it because I’m very excited that Hum is reforming after the drummer’s death to play these festival dates. Shows are happening in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. I will probably make the trip to New York to see them in Brooklyn with none other than the Swirlies supporting the show. I am very excited!
I have been having a bit of writer’s block when it comes to picking out a record and talking about it. So I just randomly picked a CD out of my collection this week, and it just so happened to be a record I am really fond of. Mainly because I looked up to this band member throughout all of my teenage years discovering punk for the first time and then later discovering what punk could be in my 40s. I pulled out the CD, The Evens—Get Evens. This is the second album out of the three that they have recorded so far. Looking back at older reviews of this album when it first came out, folks did not give it very good reviews, stating that it was lazy and not as groundbreaking as the first self-titled album. Once I revisited this record, I just could not agree with those statements. Yes, the first self-titled album is really really good, but the second one just shows them mature into their odd indie folk-rock sound. The guitars sounded like they had more depth, and Ian MacKaye’s wife, Amy Farina, the drummer in the band, sounded way tighter and more intentional in what she was playing. Together, it finally came into a really tight and cohesive project. Maybe folks like the first album better because of the lo-fi grittiness of the recording, which most of the time is what I prefer, but this album found them at their best musically.
That is all I have for this week folks! Just a reminder since you made it to the bottom of the newsletter (thank you!) we have been listing a HUGE grindcore collection we picked up a week or so ago, and ya’ll are eating it up. We are listing things daily, so please continue to check the webstore if that is your thing.