Friday, 1 February 2019

The HIRS Collective/Thou - "I Have Become Your Pupil" Nirvana covers split LP

The HIRS Collective are a queer Mathcore band from Philadelphia.  They originally started off as a two person Cybergrind act called +HIRS+ because MySpace was still a thing when they formed.  I've heard people try to sell them as "Queer Powerviolence" in the "if-you-say-a-thing-is-Powerviolence-then-it-is" school of thinking but they're really not, they sound like a band you'd stumble into because someone had them for their profile song, so imagine [random early 00's scene band name generator] Heavy Heavy Low Low but if they actually had a purpose to exist.

If EyeHateGod are your dad's Sludge band then Baton Rouge's Thou are the band your hipster cousin wouldn't tell you about because he doesn't think you're cool enough to known.  They fucking LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE Nirvana, if you collected all the covers they've done previously they could put out a whole LP themselves.

I sourced this from the Feast Of Tentacles UK pressing, I got the pre-order which promised a "mystery gift."  The last time I got a pre-order bundle from the label the mystery gift was another record (and that's how I came to own the Horders LP), a bulky package comes in the mail and with the records I ordered comes this
I tried selling it on eBay as Nirvana/Hole fanart, then as just a picture frame (with the same picture in it, of course) and no one wanted this stupid thing.  I gave it to my mum, who at the time of writing has not replaced the picture in the frame, I see it every weekend I go back home to visit.

During the downtime since my last post someone from a Canadian label reached out to spot light Zegema Beach Records.  Since I've been doing this blog I've had bands ask me to promote a demo because they're very new or someone I'm friends with has asked to make a digital rip of their new release but this is a first.  I'm not doing a whole post as there is too much to go through, but they've put out some stuff by Screamo bands I already fuck with like Shizune, Coma Regalia, Улыбайся Ветру, Locktender, Old Soul, Lentic Waters, Republic Of Dreams, Øjne & Amber.  A lot of the stuff on their Bandcamp is pay what you want so check out the link above.

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