Wives - Roy Tapes - VINYL LP

Limited red and white colored vinyl LP pressing. Includes and sticker. Happy Birthday, Ratboy combines the old and new - containing 10 brand new recordings of their earliest material + a newly-written bonus track, this record celebrates a decade of Ratboys a 10-year songwriting partnership, an evolving live show, a D.I.Y. project, a web of friendships, and every thing in between. Almost as soon as Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan met during their college orientation, they started playing music together. What came out of their dorm rooms was the 5-song RATBOY EP, uploaded to Bandcamp on April 1, 2011 to share with friends and family. Now, to mark a decade since (to the day), Ratboys have hit the studio to re-inhabit these songs and bring them back to life. New recordings of the 5 original RATBOY EP songs make up the A-side of Happy Birthday, Ratboy, with 5 new versions of rare college-era tracks and the newly-written standout, InchGo OutsideInch on the B-side. Featuring mainstays from their live show over the years, including InchThe StanzaInch & InchSpace Blows, Inch pressed to vinyl for the first time and given the full band treatment, Happy Birthday, Ratboy introduces new Ratboys fans to the band's beginnings while also raising a toast to those who've been there from the start.

There's a gap between what we want, how it is, and what we want to be. An existential divide between how we dream, how we feel, how we think, and what actually gets done in the modern world. Wives doesn't know how to reconcile this, and they don't try to give you the answer; instead, So Removed, their incisive debut album due out in October via City Slang, plunges into that void of unknown, a tangle of contemporary dread and optimism, mapping the gray areas of alienation.The Queens, NY four-piece is the latest fit into a long lineage of New York's gritty, melodic-meets-punk. So Removed, is hook-driven, grungy dark-wave, tethered to daily anxiety without resorting to cynicism. The noisy dissonance of Sonic Youth, the edgy hooks of early Pixies, and the clever, cerebral sneering of the Fall simmer as touchstones within the LP, sharp and prodding at the details, pulsing with urgency.A1. Waving Past NirvanaA2. The 20 TeensA3. ServantsA4. Hit Me UpA5. WhatevrA6. Even The DeadB7. Why Is LifeB8. Sold Out SeatzB9. Workin'B10. HideawayB11. The Future Is A Drag

Wives - So Removed [VINYL LP] Clear Vinyl, Ltd Ed, Purple date 10/04/2019