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Pageninetynine "Singles"

Rich Rossi

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 843563166932
STREET DATE: 8/25/23
CAT#: VIS03
LABEL: Persistent Vision

After being out-of-print for over a decade, Pageninetynine and new Richmond, Virginia-based label Persistent Vision have partnered to reissue the band's Singles LP to make this collection available for a new generation of fans.

The Singles collection documents a band that was constantly experimenting and organically growing within the realm of heavy music. The collection brings together the band's original demo tape, an early EP, a compilation track, and splits with Enemy Soil, City of Caterpillar, Circle Takes The Square, Reactor No. 7, and Process Is Dead spanning the band's original run from 1997 to 2003.

Sequenced to trace the band's history in reverse, the album opens with the experimental droner of "Goodbye Face" from their final release before taking listeners on a journey touching on loose improvised jams, piano samples, and syncopated screamo/punk freakouts ending on the raw hardcore-inspired punk energy of their demo tape.

"I think every single record was us trying to push the creativity further and further," Mike Taylor, guitarist, said when reflecting on the collection.

"The more we toured and played, we took on every influence possible. This meant we wrote long songs, short songs, fast songs, slow songs, improvised, experimented with different tunings, and wrote pretty and ugly parts."

It's all there in the Singles LP. Essential for completists, the collection showcases the sound of friends seeing where their ideas take them.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Goodbye Face
  2. Calm Song
  3. The Lonesome Waltz Of Leonard Cohen
  4. The List (Filth)
  5. The Sobering Moment Of One Single Violin
  6. You And Your Lumbering Body Of Death
  7. Goin South
  8. Cip Len Rae
  9. More Complicated Than A Sci-Fi Flick
  10. Diagram For A Suicide
  11. Mary Get Your Knife
  12. The Longer Now
  13. Wood And Ink
  14. Machine Revisited
  15. A Classic Case Of…
  16. My Application To Heaven
  17. More Complicated Than A Sci-Fi Flick
  18. A Gun

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Available again on vinyl after being out of print for over 10 years
  • Pageninetynine reuniting in August 2023 to headline New Friends Fest in Toronto, along with shows in Brooklyn, NY and Richmond, VA
  • Includes liner notes by J.R. Hayes (Pig Destroyer)
  • Packaged in jacket with printed inner sleeve and limited edition colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Envy, Orchid, Jeromes Dream, City of Caterpillar, Deadguy

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