burnout store: dead swans, naysayer

on my last trip to this fine store in hamburg's schanze district i found these crackers!

dead swans - anxiety and everything else

sunday is my usual posting day. next in line for today was dead swans (i post about records in the order i bought them). before i do so i look around a bit on the net. usually i visit partyausfall.de, a german internet fanzine, for news. one of the news of today was the break up of dead swans... what a fucked up connection!

so here is my swan song for dead swans (tragic wordplay). on my other visits at burnout i saw the record many times before. after 'sleepwalkers' and their part of the split with architects were on heavy rotation on my player the obtaining of 'anxiety and everything else' was just a question of time. if you liked the previuos stuff you won't get past this one! sound wise it's more raw than the other releases but that's no weakness at all.

they plan a farewell tour for the last quarter of the year. some selected dates in the uk. unless i won't win a journey to one of these gigs i will most likely never see them live. a shame...

the vinyl itself comes in a lovely clear red / clear split colour. looks rad! can't say how many were made. bridge9 discography just says that there is a grey w/ white swirl version of this but no numbers.

bridge9 records. 2012.

naysayer - laid to rest

originally i ordered this record along with this order here. per koro/markus couldn't get it because of problems with delivery and i recalled that i've seen this at burnout too. it was still there and what was even more satisfying was the fact that they had the rarer clear w/ blue splatter version. nice score!

great to here the development to their previous 7"es. love it to hear something unexpected (the song 'laid to rest') next to their usual stuff, which is pretty good midtempo old school hardcore.

the record comes with a heavy cardboard sleeve, an insert with all lyrics and the always welcomed download drop card.

put against a darker background the white splatter pops out quite good. nice center label :)

clear w/ blue and white splatter vinyl. 650 made. reaper records. 2011.

per koro: naysayer, conqueror

naysayer - no remorse 7"
another band's name that was on my mind for a while but i never really got around to it. but then one day, again inspired by a post by j@sfr i headed straight over to per koro records and managed to order some naysayer stuff.
this is their first 7" i believe. it lacks substance a bit but it's still good and worth having it!

i have the clear red version which is of the second press. 980 made. reaper records. 2009.

naysayer - down but not out 7"
this is their appetizer output for their full length record 'laid to rest' which i actually included in this order but was not available at the point (i scored it on a different opportunity - more of that later). so all in all i like this way better than the 'no remorse' 7". a bit faster and more recall value. i love the oldschool look of this with the home printed insert and the whole live picture layout. thumbs up!

it's the most common colour of the first press. clear blue out of 621. it comes with a download drop card. reaper records. 2011.

conqueror - s/t 7"
i checked this band out around the time this release came out. 2009 that was. i can recall that i liked their stuff but i never bought something of them because this release came out on vinyl only and back then i wasn't into vinyl. i came across this on the per koro shop and thought that the time had come for conqueror and me :)

xseventh daggerx pressed three colours of it. 100 on red w/ white swirl, 200 on green w/ white swirl and 200 on black w/ white swirl. the last two mentioned definitely have different covers (a creature-of-the-black-lagoon cover and a frankenstein's-monster cover) as they are still available on the xseventh daggerx shop. don't know about the red one.
because there is no possibility of chosing colours at per koro i was pretty excited about what i would get. it turned out to be the frankenstein's-monster cover and it looks pretty decent! only the black w/ white swirl vinyl seems to look more like a grey w/ black and white marble :) maybe i'll get the green one too.
xseventh daggerx records. 2009.