The Saddest Landscape

Burning Love- Rotten Thing to Say

The original intent of this blog was for us to have a way to nerd out on the vinyl format and talk about records we think are cool.

Unfortunately I’ve been terrible at updating it the last few months.

Been too busy.

So here’s a 1st attempt at getting back on track.

Remember- you can help - write your own record post and click the submit button up top. Keep it clean, positive, remember to put a photo and a stream for people to hear some of it, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to have it published here.

• Burning Love- Rotten Thing to Say

I’ve known about these guys for a while since this is the singer of Cursed’s new band. I was never a big Cursed fan (i know i know i have shitty taste in music) but I saw these guys open for Converge and they were real good.

This record is a rager- dirty southern rock riff-infused heavy rock with a hardcore sensibility. If you like the bronx or remember bars (if not you need to get on that immediately)- you will enjoy this. Get it here from Southern Lord.

Nails - Unsilent Death

The way I got into this band/release is kind of atypical in the sense that I became curious to check it out after reading it had an ex member or members of some bands I never really go too into. Make sense? Yeah, didn’t think so. But, what sparked my curiosity was that the description -something along the lines of “complete sledge hammer brutality” - was NOT something I associated with these former bands. So, I checked it out. And, I’m quite glad that I did because this record slays. Not sure how to best describe it (I’ll let the song clip below do that job for me), but it reminds me of a much heavier, much more groove-oriented version of His Hero is Gone.

I thought I was ordering the 1st press of this, but was actually still happy when I realized I was wrong and that it’s the new repress that just came out on Southern Lord. Never owned one of their releases till now but I’ve always seen/heard incredible things about their packaging. Comes on some super thick cardboard gatefold, so thick it almost feels like a book. The packaging is simple, but the aesthetic perfectly matches the tone and feel of the record.

Short, sweet, pummeling, and pissed as all fuck. You can grab a copy right here