Pre-Order Thread

dbarila said:
Red and Green are gone so I'm gonna guess yellow, orange or blue.

Still not sure how I feel about this one. I like the songs but not sure if I $28 like them yet.
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I have a gut feeling it's going be a cohesive masterpiece. I don't know why. I really like both singles.

EDIT: I hope it's blue!
 
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ROOKIE is six matching jumpsuit-clad, shaggy-haired friends from Chicago who play rock-n-roll that’s more at home next to their parents’ battered LPs than on their friends’ streaming playlists. The band’s self-titled debut full-length album deftly reformats the classic rock landscape with blowtorch hooks, enthralling harmonies, evocative touches of cosmic country, and distinctively indie-minded songwriting.

ROOKIE’s modern take on timeless American rock ‘n’ roll pulls from all corners of the sonic map; it’s familiar but fresh, lived-in but blown-out. It’s the ‘70s/’80s pop-rock sheen of recent tour-mates Cheap Trick; 3-minute precision songwriting of Big Star; loose Neil Young Americana; and the hazey, psych-flavored boogie of The Allman Brothers and Thin Lizzy. Though barely able to comfortably fit on most stages, once they’re plugged in and smooshed together, it’s a potent blend of power chords, blistering leads, and performance prowess beyond their years.

Like local peers Twin Peaks, Whitney, and Post Animal, ROOKIE emerged from an idealistic grassroots, Midwestern, youth community-centric, DIY scene. House shows and divey all-ages venues were the preeminent performance spaces and rock-n-roll was once again king. There is an all-inclusive and carefree essence surrounding the band, as well as their audience, reminiscent of the wide-eyed drive and sense of purpose of an underdog sports team or—more appropriately, given their coveralls—a Formula 1 pit crew.

That cooperative vibe is most clear in their balanced attack, each of the six members bringing a signature part of the layered sound from song to song. “Hold On Tight” bashes down the door with a deceptively simple AC-to-the-DC riff, but the three-headed guitar monster attack of Dimitri Panoutsos, Christopher Devlin, and Max Loebman takes the standby arena rock formula to wild new places. In “Sunglasses,” Loebman’s lead vocals evince an ethereally sunny pop disposition, which he later strips down to great effect, just his upper register and acoustic guitar, for the stark “Elementary Blues.” Throughout the album’s 12 tracks, the rhythm section of Joe Bordenaro on drums, Kevin Decker on bass, and Justin Bell on keys establishes a groove-meets-power foundation. On several songs, including “I Can’t Have You But I Want You,” Bordenaro sings lead as well, while the rest of the group piles on with a rowdy gang chorus.

The band of 20-somethings created their broad-yet-intimate sound not long after forming in 2017 from the remnants of under the radar local outfits Joe Bordenaro & the Late Bloomers, Yoko and the Oh Nos, and Max and the Mild Ones. The budding project soon became the subject of excited whispers around town. In 2018, the group released two singles (“One Way Ticket” and “Let’s Get It Right”) and a 7” single (“I Can’t Have You But I Want You” and “The Move”) for nascent Chicago studio/imprint Treehouse Records. These recordings raised the whispers to the level of folklore.

www.bloodshotrecords.com

ROOKIE

ROOKIE’s modern take on timeless American rock ‘n’ roll pulls from all corners of the sonic map; it’s familiar but fresh, lived-in but blown-out. It’s the ‘70s/’80s pop-rock sheen of recent tour-mates Cheap Trick; 3-minute precision songwriting of Big Star; loose Neil Young Americana; and the...
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sjaygray said:
But isn't all our brain registering as "color" a matter of light entering our eyes on certain wavelengths?
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I'm not exactly a physicist but, the only reason red records appear red is because the pigment that's used absorbs all colors except for red. Red light is a specific wavelength the our eyes register as red. So you are partially right to say that our brain registers light (particles) and objects (matter) as the same color because it's all light in our eyes. It get a bit more complicated when you start mixing colors which is where I kind of get lost on the sciencey bits. Just take a bunch of different colors of paint and mix it together and let me know when you get it to make white 😄
 
folsom_lives said:
I'm not exactly a physicist but, the only reason red records appear red is because the pigment that's used absorbs all colors except for red. Red light is a specific wavelength the our eyes register as red. So you are partially right to say that our brain registers light (particles) and objects (matter) as the same color because it's all light in our eyes. It get a bit more complicated when you start mixing colors which is where I kind of get lost on the sciencey bits. Just take a bunch of different colors of paint and mix it together and let me know when you get it to make white 😄
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I totally get what you're saying and don't disagree. I just found it interesting to go down a bit of a color theory rabbit hole.
 
folsom_lives said:
I'm not exactly a physicist but, the only reason red records appear red is because the pigment that's used absorbs all colors except for red. Red light is a specific wavelength the our eyes register as red. So you are partially right to say that our brain registers light (particles) and objects (matter) as the same color because it's all light in our eyes. It get a bit more complicated when you start mixing colors which is where I kind of get lost on the sciencey bits. Just take a bunch of different colors of paint and mix it together and let me know when you get it to make white 😄
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Now read that all while under the influence of psychedelics and listening to some [enter favorite psych rock band here].
 
Tys1 said:
Now read that all while under the influence of psychedelics and listening to some [enter favorite psych rock band here].
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folsom_lives said:
Same. It's still wild to me that TV pixels are three different colors, and to get the color white to show up ALL THREE COLORS are lit up at the same time 🤯
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and really cool on a vectorscope, this shows up as an absolute absence of chroma despite there being an equal amount of all three colours.

that’s where light (and tech that uses light) differs to pigment in that yellow is not a primary colour in additive mixing but green is. So green filters red and blue, blue filters green and red and red filters blue and green lights. When added together with equal luminance they all filter each other equally to create an absence of chroma.

black also has an absolute absence of chroma (and luminance) in TV as do every shade of grey (with increasing amounts of luma the closer to White they reach).

and that’s TV scopes 101 for today.
 
some_other_simon said:
sorry if this has been posted.

www.blackeditionsgroup.com

White Heaven "Out" Deluxe LP | Black Editions Group

White Heaven’s debut album Out is one of the greatest psychedelic rock albums ever recorded. First released in 1991 by Tokyo’s P.S.F. Records and pressed in an edition of 500 copies the original LP has become a holy grail in underground circles, with only a scant few copies ever making it...
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Every black editions re-issue is worth owning.
Long live PSF Records
 
Twentytwo said:
Don't hate me @Lee Newman

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This very limited edition “First Edition” CD and LP comes with limited edition poster insert
Hand autographed by Aoife O’Donovan

This is the first release featuring Aoife with a string quartet. Co-produced by Jeremy Kittel and Aoife, the album was recorded in Brooklyn on the last days of October 2019. The title of the project comes from the Peter Sears poem, “Valentine”, which is the final movement of the 3 song suite along with Sears other poems “Night Fishing” and “The Darkness”. Peter Sears (1937-2017), was named the seventh poet laureate of the state of Oregon in 2014. The suite was penned in 2015 by O’Donovan along with Jeremy Kittel and Teddy Abrams, the conductor of the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and premiered at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, OR.

In addition to Bull Frogs Croon are fresh takes on two songs that have been part of O’Donovan’s repertoire for years, and both fit beautifully. The Irish folk song Lakes of Pontchartrain, which Crooked Still recorded 15 years ago, gets revisited and reimagined with a bit more bounce in its step than the now classic Paul Brady approach. The other is Hazel Dickens’ Pretty Bird, which O’Donovan recorded years ago for an unreleased Dickens tribute album and again with Crooked Still. “I think the through-line for me is that the poetry of both of those songs fit well with how Bull Frogs Croon ends in such a beautiful loving way.”
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Was expecting this any day now. Thanks!
 
eatdogs said:
This is tempting... Album was a great college discovery for me. I found the band by watching my Pete and Pete dvds lol
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Cheaper option through Elusive Disc for what I’m assuming is an older pressing
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Sonicpharmacist said:
Cheaper option through Elusive Disc for what I’m assuming is an older pressing
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Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs 10" Vinyl 6 Disc Box Set

Elusive Disc, Inc., Features Only The Best In Audiophile Hardware, Accessories and Music. We Offer a Wide Variety Of Audiophile Turntables, Cartridges, Phono Stages, Record Cleaners, SACD Players, Speakers, Headphones, Pre-Amps, LP Cleaning Fluids, Cables, Vibration Control, Record Brushes &...
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If you want the black version it pretty routinely shows up for $50-55. I’d bet cash it’s the same cut.

Edit: doing a quick look, seems like it rebounded - $65 is a pretty good price. Even the 3-color reissue from a few years ago has taken a bounce for whatever reason.
 
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Corycm said:
If you want the black version it pretty routinely shows up for $50-55. I’d bet cash it’s the same cut.

Edit: doing a quick look, seems like it rebounded - $65 is a pretty good price. Even the 3-color reissue from a few years ago has taken a bounce for whatever reason.
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Yeah I used to see it for that $50 all of the time but never pulled the trigger. Now that Elusive Disc price is the best I’ve seen lately. I’ll just stick with digital for now I guess.
 
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