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Hello and thanks for reading. It’s been a while. I hope everyone has been doing well. I recently got Covid and I have been trying to catch up here at work before we leave for VIDRO/SCARECROW East Coast tour. There have been a ton of killer records in stock since I last wrote a staff pick, but most of them have sold out already. (Especially that new DELETÄR 12”... damn that is a good record.) To coincide with our upcoming tour, I chose a photo taken by our amazing driver from our European tour, Liese. This is from the gig in Hamburg, Germany where we played with VIDRO. If not for this gig, we probably would not be touring together! Since Jeff was perfectly blocked from sight in the live shot, I included a cute shot of him from after the gig. I look forward to the upcoming tour A LOT… blah blah… I could go on forever about being excited to hang with friends in different cities and sweat our asses off in the van with VIDRO, but now it’s time to talk about records.
Funny enough, In a staff pick from almost a year ago, I wrote about the two things I wanted to mention today. NUKIES! This shit is so good to me. They did a cassette version before this record came out. I actually wrote about it here when Sorry State got some copies. Rarely is there a cassette I actually want to buy, especially when I know it’s coming out as a proper record later. ELECTRIC CHAIR was the last cassette I went out of my way to get. Even though I knew it was coming out on LP, I really wanted to hear the entire thing. I know I could have probably just streamed it online or something, but I don’t know... nothing can ever beat playing the physical format of a release. Don’t get me wrong, I use Bandcamp and YouTube to check out bands all the time. Anyway, NUKIES really hits the spot for me, so I was eager to get the cassette version to hold me over until this hot ass slab was finally released. The LP is finally here, so don’t sleep. If you haven’t heard them, I would stop what you’re doing right now and check them out. I don’t understand what there is not to love about this shit.
Another thing I wrote about that day was BLACK UNIFORMS. I am so happy to have these in stock. I remember when I first heard them, they were a bit too metallic for me. I’m not sure what made it click for me, but now I can never get enough BLACK UNIFORMS. Everyone needs this record. While the song is not on their full-length, “Suck My Cock” is like my life paraphrased into a song, so naturally I am obsessed with the band. When I first wrote about them in that staff pick, I was writing about this bootleg that was in circulation late last year. We never could find out where to get a bunch of copies at an OK price, though. It was peculiar how spot-on the boot was to the original. It even included the original catalogue number in the matrix. It was also interesting I recently heard Mats Bodenmalm passed away very early this year. And more recently, I saw Charlie Cimex post from Facebook where he warns readers to not deal with Cliff for CIMEX shit and that he is a speed freak, haha. I know Cliff probably played a bigger role in BLACK UNIFORMS, but I have no idea who has the rights to reissue their stuff. Is any of this stuff related? Probably not, but I can’t help but wonder and laugh a bit about the whole thing. Anyway, Unrest Records has got this bad boy back in print officially and I could not be more excited. They changed the insert a bit and updated the font on the front cover. I think the update on the front was a nice touch, alongside hand-numbering that out of 1,000 copies. Yes, there is only 1,000, so sleep now and forever hold your peace. Hilariously as I write this, I had this video playing. I know the two bands beefed, but I can happily enjoy both. Alright, I’ve got to get on with some other work now. Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone for the support!! Cheers!