Girl One And The Grease Guns – BASHED, BEATEN & BROKEN (TRIP THE SWITCH)
The Manhattan Love Suicides – Kessler Syndrome
Schade, dass sich erstere leider über das Presswerk aufregen (zu recht? zu unrecht?) und so klingen als würden sie kein Vinyl mehr veröffentlichen:
[Quote]After waiting one month for our latest 7″ to come back from the vinyl manufacturers, instead of receiving a message to let us know they will be arriving this week (as we expected) we instead got a message to let us know that our (once) favourite format has screwed us over yet again. Here is what we got, in reference to the master we supplied for production :
„In this case there will be a high level of distortion due to a large amount of high frequencies. We are recommending you reduce the record level to -1dB or ideally -2dB and also set up limiter EQ and compressor for parts of high frequencies, to prevent a large amount of distortion“
First of all, we’re pissed off that it’s taken this long to even let us know about this situation (at least 3 weeks) and secondly, as a result of this news, we regret to have to let you all know that after this 7″ release, and perhaps one further already planned 7″ later this year that is looking likely to be a split single….Girl One And The Grease Guns will not be issuing any more vinyl after that. The format is just too wimpy these days, and cannot handle a loud master. How come 7″ singles from the 1960s, for instance, are so much louder and exciting, and yet these days you can’t supply a loud master without getting a shitstorm of problems if you do so ? Our music isn’t even that loud, but yet we run into this problem over and over again….and then the inevitable delays with release dates are caused as a result. If the format can’t take it, then the format is no longer the right one for us and for what we are trying to achieve sonically…….and so (with regret) we must look elsewhere at other options from now on.
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Arise now, ye Tarnished/Ye dead, who yet live/ The call of long-lost grace speaks to us all