baroness is an oddball of a band. they play a style of rock/metal that usually doesn't appeal to me but in their own progressive context, i can't get enough of them. in the past i managed to get together all their albums on vinyl including their latest output 'purple' with one little exception. 'yellow and green', i attempted to get my hands on a copy several times before. these attempts were always for the only coloured version wih standard cover of the first press.
the deluxe version in a hardbound book cover looked very tempting but was always out of my price range. my first try on discogs ended with the seller cancelling the order because the item wasn't available anymore and the second copy i also wanted to buy via discogs but the seller was moving at that point and stored a portion of his vinyl collection somewhere without having access, this baroness record included. when he re-listed the record, someone was faster than me.
so i purposely waited for releapse to re-press that damned thing. since i bought the re-issue of the 'red album' one and a half years ago, i saw a lot of re-presses for 'red album' and 'blue record' but no frigging fresh platter for 'yellow and green'. but then, finally around the same time 'purple' dropped, relapse did me the favour and a sigh of release left my mouth. i immediately fell in love with the 'mustard and olive' merge vinyl which seemed like a perfect match to the album title.
after over a tormenting month of waiting my baby finally arrived. and it do looks awesome. personally i think that the cover art to 'yellow and green' is the best john dyer baizley has ever done. it all looks so warm and inviting and at the second glimpse there is this girl with the knife on the swans throat. suddenly the scene looks sinister. when it comes to the musical part i am a bit split as to what to think of the record. sometimes it's a bit too calm. a few fillers on here. 100 copies made as mailorder exclusive. relapse records. 2012/2015.
