Pre-Order Thread

People, The National's High Violet Expanded Anniversary record:

Any members willing to help me out with the Cherry Tree Shop exclusive? Please. 😘
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I believe that this is the same edition as listed above - but I might be wrong...
They just changed the mockup on the Cherry Tree Shop.

Another one from VMP:

But I'm looking for this one:
 
Inventions - Continuous Portrait

On their first album together since Maze of Woods (2015), Matthew Robert Cooper (Eluvium) and Mark T. Smith (Explosions in the Sky) further their creative curiosities as Inventions.

Beginning with a trace of uncontrollable laughter that shifts into the driving atmosphere and unfolding elation of opening track “Hint and Omens,” Continuous Portrait is an album of strange hypnosis, punctuated by songs that venture quite far from the respective oeuvres of Cooper and Smith. The spry, playful layers of “Calico” bounce against a steady thrum of rhythms and samples from everyday noises, while the dancing lightness of “Outlook for the Future” is met with a storm of emotional resonance. Both tracks emerge as distinctively different directions for Inventions, and it is that very sense of exploration, pleasure, and ceremonial melancholia which informs the entire album from front to back.

Inventions has always been the product of two friends who find comfort and inspiration in the genuine surprise of creating and combining sounds. Continuous Portrait whirls and hums like Cooper and Smith want us to invoke our inner playfulness and welcome a greater joy into our lives, if only for a moment. The result is a portrait that continuously embraces the completely foreign and familiar, and evolves with each successive listen.
 
I believe that this is the same edition as listed above - but I might be wrong...
They just changed the mockup on the Cherry Tree Shop.

Another one from VMP:

But I'm looking for this one:
$60 for the VMP version??? GTFOH.
 
Inventions - Continuous Portrait

On their first album together since Maze of Woods (2015), Matthew Robert Cooper (Eluvium) and Mark T. Smith (Explosions in the Sky) further their creative curiosities as Inventions.

Beginning with a trace of uncontrollable laughter that shifts into the driving atmosphere and unfolding elation of opening track “Hint and Omens,” Continuous Portrait is an album of strange hypnosis, punctuated by songs that venture quite far from the respective oeuvres of Cooper and Smith. The spry, playful layers of “Calico” bounce against a steady thrum of rhythms and samples from everyday noises, while the dancing lightness of “Outlook for the Future” is met with a storm of emotional resonance. Both tracks emerge as distinctively different directions for Inventions, and it is that very sense of exploration, pleasure, and ceremonial melancholia which informs the entire album from front to back.

Inventions has always been the product of two friends who find comfort and inspiration in the genuine surprise of creating and combining sounds. Continuous Portrait whirls and hums like Cooper and Smith want us to invoke our inner playfulness and welcome a greater joy into our lives, if only for a moment. The result is a portrait that continuously embraces the completely foreign and familiar, and evolves with each successive listen.
I came here to post about this. This new song sounds DRASTICALLY different than what they were doing before. Sounds a little like Monster Rally, I can dig it.
 
Is this another High Violet variant? This says it’s numbered with a “belly band”.
 
Is this another High Violet variant? This says it’s numbered with a “belly band”.

Belly band 😂😂😂
 
Is this another High Violet variant? This says it’s numbered with a “belly band”.

i’m thinking that all versions of this come with an OBI strip
 
Curious as well. Since they seem to have the same copy as everybody else... here it shows that the purple band might not actually be the OBI strip
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Well, since it was $49.99 and free shipping, it only winds up being $5 more than the standard version. Taking a chance for now, especially since Rough Trade allows for cancellations and doesn’t charge until they ship.
 
New Nick Hakim.
Loved his first record and I'm excited to hear the new one.

Nick Hakim - Will This Make Me Good

Exclusives listed below
Rough Trade EU Rough Trade US
Vinyl Me, Please
 
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