10) Ten, really?

Oh time off: how I have missed you. It was March that I last had more than one day off in a week. Thursday I napped for an entire hour because why the fuck not! It was glorious.

I digress. I should probably mention that my store loves me right now. In the last week, I have picked up the following albums:

At The Drive-In - Acrobatic Tenement
The good ol' reissue of At The Drive-In's first full length album on bright red vinyl. Dine Alone Records has done a great job with these reissues. The liner notes and artwork is all faithfully restored and the presses are great. I would say that this is an essential grab for anyone who loves fast sudo-punk and recordings that can sound like shit and sound amazing at the same time. One thing that threw me off was that this particular press does not come sealed. Paper Bag Records has been notorious for this with all the limited edition releases they have been doing as of late. I don't think it changes much and the environmentalist inside me is quite happy. There will always be that worry that someone is going to score just the wax and leave the sleeve behind, but that is just years of working in customer service talking.

I had a friend who died for something he really loved I had a friend who stood for none of the above I had a friend whose experience was riddled with scars who got drunk one night in the trunk of Louie P.'s car I had a friend who would love to scare you as was his affection and tremble you did, cuz you weren't worthy of his friendship I had a friend, but now he's stranded on the Mesa St. exit and sometimes I'm jealous cuz I'm still at the intersection I had a friend whose heart was too heavy to hold...

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
AHAHAHAHAHAHA I GOT IT! I was kind of worried it wouldn't happen. I also just got notice from a buddy of mine that he picked up the Cure LP I wanted, but more on that next week. Limited reissue on the biggest album of ATDI's career? I think it will come back, but maybe on black vinyl instead of yellow. In the mean time, I'm going to play the paranoid record store guy and assume that I will never see it again as long as I live. It sounds great and feels great and my god One Arm Scissor is such a wicked tune.

At The Drive-In - Vaya
What? I talked about the other two I have and I'm missing In Casino/Out, so Yes: I am going to type about my favorite album that they ever released. White ten inch. I hate white. I think ten inch records are pretty, but impractical. Other than that, great fucking album. Ok, on to that other one I picked up durring the week.

Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
One of the most beautiful albums to be released in Canada, not to mention one of the most beautiful solo attempts I have ever heard. Emily Haines of Metric really shows how diverse her vocal ranges can be and just how great of a song writer she is. Yes, it is apparent that she ripped most of the subject matter from the pages of Margret Attwood's Handmaid's Tale (which is a terrible book, by the way), but she used it in a very modern and good way. Did I mention that the album is incredibly pretty?