Dischord: An Impression

This is sort of a companion piece to Ryan's last post. Faraquet's View From This Tower is one of my absolute favorite albums of all time and I've been waiting for close to the last 2 years for the vinyl to be repressed...and it's finally here!!! I just put an order in for Faraquet - View From This Tower, Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart, Q and Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep, and the new Medications, and let's just say I'm a little more than excited. Here is the list of all the represses that are available. They're all re-cut from the original tapes and remastered. Super boss. In my mind, Dischord is the quintessential label. They've worked hard to not fall in line with the corporate mentality, they keep prices low so you can buy music the artists want you to hear, and it's very obvious that they put the music first! So go buy some stuff because they deserve your money, and because you could probably order once a week and still find stuff you want, because let's face it...it's Dischord! Also, I just kind of happened upon this short documentary that was made about the label. It's only about 15 minutes long but it's pretty cool. Check it hard.

An Impression: Dischord Records.

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Coming Soon: Medications' "Completely Removed"

One of the best bands no one ever talked about, Faraquet, disbanded a few years ago and then mostly re-banded (?) a few years after that to form Medications. For the most part, Medications has sounded like Faraquet with a different name over the course of their two releases. That may change with the release of their second full length, Completely Removed, or so it seems based off the only track to be leaked thus far, "Long Day". Obviously this is a small sample size, and the track sounds great, but it sounds like some of the edge has gone from previous Medications and Faraquet releases. Ironic that this possible transformation might have been triggered by the departure of the bands bassist, who happens to be the only guy that wasn't also in Faraquet. No matter what, you can pretty much count on Removed totally dominating, so hopefully April 20th will quit being so pokey and get here.

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