The new ITW repress looks and sounds incredible. I spent my Sunday playing both lps and they re flawless.

NewDarkAge wrote:Similar experience except it was a .rar on one of those blogs that used to exist. Spring of 2012. That whole summer I didn t listen to anything else.ah! I remember the days, heading down to the used .rar store and flipping through the file folders.

Finally got round to ordering the reissues now I m back home. Even on Bandcamp ITW sounds incredible, like it s more in focus or something. I didn t realise this before but Andy was really young when they recorded this, right? His songs are intimidatingly good. tallchris wrote:Realized recently that coming across this record in a pawnshop in Idaho in 1995 is probably one of the 3 biggest things music related things that ended up changing the course of my life, though the impact of ITW was a slower burn.Similar experience except it was a .rar on one of those blogs that used to exist. Spring of 2012. That whole summer I didn t listen to anything else.

cneutron wrote:NewDarkAge wrote:Similar experience except it was a .rar on one of those blogs that used to exist. Spring of 2012. That whole summer I didn t listen to anything else.ah! I remember the days, heading down to the used .rar store and flipping through the file folders.hahahaha, touché

Since the ITW reissue arrived at my house, it's pretty much the only thing I've listened to; that and all the Silkworm LPs.The last 48 hours have been me revisiting Andy's record with Light Coma--it's a perfect fuckin' record.A few years ago I was on the road to Knoxville from the ATL to see my buddy Matt Hall. I was listening to Firewater the entire way there.When I arrived at his house, he opens the door to greet me and I said "Dude, I just listened to the greatest guitar solo ever written."And he reflexively replied with "You mean Slow Hands by Silkworm?"That's exactly what I was referring to--it was one of the most epic rock moments of our friendship. That goddamn solo...it's just the gift that KEEPS giving.

In the West sounds great! Love it!! 10/10!!!Lots of stuff I never really heard before, especially the dive bomb/fighter jet guitar parts and Phelps background vocals, including harmonies with himself, which, as usual, are terrific.