Caravels - Split - VINYL LP

Owain Arwel Hughes - Sinfonia Sacra / Symphony 4 [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/04/1994

In advance of their forthcoming debut album via Prophecy Productions, newly formed black metal trio Vuur & Zijde (Inchfire and silkInch) - featuring members of Laster, Nusquama and Terzij de Horde - will introduce themselves on a split- alongside the similarly enigmatic Impavida. While recording in a remote yurt on the Frisian shoreside, the band opted for a nostalgic production reminiscent of genre-defining demos from the early 90s to fit their own style. Equally grim and epic, Vuur & Zijde's three songs, which will remain exclusive to this , also highlight ethereal female vocals and layers of sounds, lending them a weightless, otherworldly character. The anonymous minds behind Impavida come from Germany and the US, offering two unsettling, discordant dirges to underscore existential questions that are spit out hysterically. With two full-lengths on Ván Records since 2008, the duo remains without face and history, a nihilistic void set to music. Meant not for the faint-hearted but all those who seek transcendental aural darkness, the groups' self-titled joint effort stimulates imagination and - ultimately - leads to remarkable revelations. InchVuur & Zijde / ImpavidaInch is available as Digipak CD and on vinyl (black, ltd. Transparent green).

Fust-the Durham, North Carolina-based band-will a newly remastered edition of it's debut album Evil Joy on vinyl for the first time on May 28, 2026 via Dear Life Records, marking the record's five-year anniversary. The re- isn't a victory lap so much as a way of keeping the band's earliest vision of ragged, lyric-forward country-rock in active rotation-putting their point of origin back in circulation even as their new music keeps widening. It follows last year's Big Ugly and 2023's Genevieve, which introduced new listeners to Fust's blend of Inchsmall-town poetryInch (Mojo) and a familiar yet probing Inchcountry-tinged folk-rockInch (KEXP) that made it Inchone of the most fun rock records of the yearInch (Pitchfork). With Big Ugly, that sensibility didn't pivot so much as open up the band plays louder and looser, while the songs feel even more close-up and lived-in, as Aaron Dowdy's writing sharpens it's eye for the detail that suddenly explains a whole life-and the band moves like a circle of friends telling the same story from several angles at once. The record's reach earned prominent year-end recognition from outlets like Time and Rolling Stone, with critic Steven Hyden calling it Inchthe purest manifestation of the updated alt-country sensibility.Inch The Evil Joy reissue also continues a quiet through-line in Fust's catalog a habit of returning to earlier material not as artifact, but as groundwork-recontextualizing the beginnings as the sound keeps moving. That instinct was already visible in 2024's Songs of the Rail, a set of early home recordings that Paste called Inchone of the best alt-country compilations... in a long, long timeInch-a reminder that Fust's forward motion has always been built from an accumulating, shared history. Evil Joy was recorded sporadically between 2019 and 2021 in New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and Lake Gaston, but it was lar