Seam - Headsparks - Turquoise - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Black Midi's follow-up to Schlagenheim is a dynamic, hellacious, inventive success. Cavalcade, their second studio album for Rough Trade, scales beautiful new heights, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early achievements.

In the wake of B*tch Magnet and current of Superchunk, Sooyoung Park and Mac McCaughan formed a raw version of Seam in the summer of '91. With bassist Lexi Mitchell, the trio banged out an album and two singles worth of shambolic dream pop in the sweltering Chapel Hill heat. Ten songs of talk-whispered vocals, sloshing guitar solos, scattered snare rolls, Velocity Girl's Sarah Shannon, and the original version of Codeine's slowcore classic InchNew Year's,Inch on LP for the first time in 30 years.

Limited twelve inch vinyl pressing of this EP. Captured at the height of their powers during the heyday of the grunge movement that they inspired, J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr perform tracks from their back catalogue live on MTV's 120 Minutes show. Loud and heavy as ever, the band turn in an inspired performance, which has since become a legendary favorite among fans. Never officially released until now, and produced in association with MTV and the band, Seventytwohundredseconds is the latest in our ongoing extensive exploration of Dinosaur Jr's brilliant Sire Records period. A must-hear glimpse of one of the treasures from the rich seam of American alternative rock and grunge artists who reinvigorated guitar- orientated music in the late 1980s and 1990s.