A trip to the local record store

After lunch today with my sister Rachel we headed to our local record store and I got some pretty good stuff. I don't really try to buy to many new records nowadays because the shelves are usually clogged with the new release by the hot Fueled by Ramen band, or by the new leader in death metal that will get a creative hair up their butt on their second record and lose their entire fan base, except for the few diehards that really do know that the band sucks but cannot bring themselves to agree to it. Like myself and Taking Back Sunday. Anyways. I got some good stuff for under ten buck from scanning the used rows.

First was an LP from Ferret records metalcore act Scarlet. The album, This was always meant to fall apart, is pretty much artistic slash and grind metalcore with some soft spoken lyrics, like Underoath without the Christian part. I have this thing about always wanting to grab stuff from certain labels when it is cheap just because of the label, not the band. It is pretty chance oriented endeavor but I would have never heard of Moneen if I didn't like Vagrant Records.

The next one I found was You Come Before You by Poison the Well. They have a new album coming out via, you guessed it, Ferret Records later this year called Tropical Rot, but this was their effort back from the 'OOs, and it is a pretty ferocious records that is not too much like their last effort Versions. Nonetheless it is a pretty great album. One a side not one of my earliest memories of liking hardcore is watching the video for "Botchla" on the xDoanex video collection. It was just such a fresh and accessible song for me at that time. It didn't start out with screaming or heavy riffs, just the singer saying "But, I adore her" over and over again and then leading into the screaming and a bridge that is more rock oriented than hardcore. It is crazy to think back and see that this was one of the reason I love music now.

Lastly I got the album Sorry Vampire by John Ralston. He is a signee to Vagrant and creates beautiful and haunting folk music, if you need an example look up "Gone, Gone, Gone" off of his previous effort Needle Bed, it is probably one of the greatest kiss off songs. Anyways I have loved this man's music since I saw his perform with Limbeck a couple of years ago. He had this wonderful air around him, a comedy almost, and it was really nice to have him agree to come and perform a couple of songs at KWCR the next day along with Limbeck. Someday I might get around to posting those up here. Also if you look at a picture of him and Bert McCracken from The Used sidebyside they could be brothers, just saying.

Anyways there you go, get out and maybe buy some of these or just any record really at your local records store, except the new Eminem he has enough money as it is.