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Time for another update on new titles to hit the pre-orders section of the Sorry State website! As usual, we’ll only touch on a small selection of the new items that went up recently, so check the site for all 300+ current preorders!
Heading up the new releases this week is the new album from Darkthrone! We have their new album Pre-Historical Metal available on three colors: black, transparent orange, or coke bottle green (which is the indie exclusive). Revelation Records brings us the debut from Birdlegs, a new punk supergroup drawing members from AFI and the Nerve Agents, among others. Next up is the new album from Sunn O))), who have made the jump to indie stalwarts Sub Pop for this latest self-titled album. We also have the new double album—their fourth—from long-running indie group American Football on goldenrod mixor red tape vinyl. One of Dominic’s faves, Wales’ Super Fury Animals have a new early rarities and demos collection called (appropriately) Precreation Percolation. And I didn’t even know they were still active, but we also have a new album from indie / post-punk darlings Downtown Boys called Public Luxury. And last but certainly not least, Japanese garage legends Guitar Wolf have a new album called More Jet.
As usual, there’s lots to talk about in the new reissue department too. Leading the charge are the Butthole Surfers, which is only kinda-sorta a reissue… After the Astronaut was meant to be the follow-up album to their 1996 surprise hit Electriclarryland, but was shelved due to disputes between the band and their label. Now it’s finally coming out and you can get it from us on standard black or indie exclusive opaque white vinyl. 70s French punk group Guilty Razors have a new collection LP bringing together their full discography (which was just one LP and one 7” single), and we also have a collection LP from early Seattle post-punk group Chinas Comidas… I’ve always picked up their records on the rare occasions when I find them, so it’ll be nice to have them all in one place.
On the heavier end of the reissue spectrum, I’m pretty interested in this reissue on Tee Pee Records from obscure Nova Scotia 80s thrash band Schizoid… I haven’t heard it, but it looks very promising! Slowing things down a bit (OK, a lot…), Sub Pop is repressing Earth’s long out of print third album Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons. Purveyors of killer sub-underground psych and heavy rock reissues Ancient Grease Records have a collection LP from obscurities Punch, who only released a single back in the day. Real Gone Music’s Deicide reissue campaign continues with 1995’s Once Upon the Cross, while Peaceville brings another early Sigh record back into print with 1997’s Ghastly Funeral Theatre. Oh, and if you were waiting for the Danzig reissue mania to spread to Danzig 4… boom, we got you.
Finishing up on the poppier end of things, 00s indie / post-hardcore darlings Piebald take the next step in their reunion journey with their first post-breakup album of new material. It’s called Tales for the Rages and we have it on hot pink or strange purple vinyl. Kasey Musgraves has a new album coming out called Middle of Nowhere and we have that on two colors as well: whiskey or rodeo clown. Foo Fighters have a new album up for pre-order, and I guess old Dave is gonna compete for your dollars with his own daughter Violet, whose debut Be Sweet to Me is available on black or blueberry jam vinyl. And finishing things off, Death Cab for Cutie have a brand new album called I Built You a Tower coming out on Anti Records.