cannoneer big cartel: abandon hope

cannoneer - abandon hope

i'm not sure how i found out about this band anymore. what i know is that i was listening to some songs of their new e.p. 'abandon hope' at their bandcamp and thought, it was good enough to give them a shot.

musically this pretty much in the vein of the first e.p. 'a blackening heart, an empty mind'. solid stuff but i won't give it a spin very often. the photo on the front cover was, according to the credits on the lyric sheet, made at some friend's attic. i can imagine what this attic looks like but not, why they have chosen this view as cover. strange...

i ordered one of the pre-order version. marbled dark red vinyl. only 50 copies made of this. all the regular colours (100 on white, another 100 on black vinyl) and the pre-order colour still available. the release was handled by three labels, blackheart records, anchored records and chapter13 records. 2013.

cannoneer big cartel: a blackening mind, an empty heart

cannoneer - a blackening mind, an empty heart

with hindsight the next three upcoming posts, including this one, will be about stuff that i don't feel i really needed. it was something i got caught up in. you know, that glimpse of excitement that makes you click 'check out' before you really know what's going on. so i'll try to keep them short.

cannoneer is a german melodic hardcore band that just released an e.p. which i will wind up writing about in the next post. this one here, 'a blackening mind, an empty heart' was the forerunner. it was cheap and that's why i added it because ordering one record is lame.

this e.p. comes on black vinyl only with a nice etching of the cover tree on the b-side and a fold over cover of matte card. presentation is solid. music is ok. nothing more but nothing less also. check for yourself. first one done. see you tomorrow. 

rising riot records. 2011.