Have you ever liked a band enough that you were willing to pay for them to repress a bunch of their out of print material just so you can get your hands on it? No? Well, with the direction that prices are headed on Discogs, you might consider it a cheaper option then paying the asking price for some of the records you’ve been eyeing in the very near future.
And it’s not like the scenario is unprecedented, either! It’s basically what Adam of Convulse Records had to do in order to procure a copy of Bucharest punks Cold Brat’s self-titled EP, and now you can enjoy the benefits of his investment at a fraction of the risk!
Punk In the Digital Age Extended collects essentially everything that Cold Brats has released to date. The first four tracks are from their self-titled EP. It also includes one song from a cassette-only release jammed in there, and the last two are from a split with Las Poftas.
But that’s not all! Cold Brats have deemed you worthy of hearing two new songs of theirs as well. The never-before-released tracks are “Banana” and “Down By Law,” sneakily tucked into the middle of the track list, like Cold Brats was trying to hide them or something. Like the band’s afraid you’ll think they are out of tricks if you figure out how this record is structured on your first listen. But even if this were true, it would only serve as more misdirection. Cold Brat’s are willfully weird, irrepressible in their antics, and there really is not a limit to the extent that they are willing to mess with you.
“Split Sabers” sounds like a bar fight between an L.A. death rock band and a bunch of bikers who are obsessed with Japenese hardcore while a teenaged band of amphetamine addled parolees belch and bark out a couple of Totalitär covers from the stage before collapsing into a puddle of their own vomit.
“Time Thickening Bomb” sounds like crusted-out version of the Dirt Bombs, but even this sounds dulcet in comparison to the downer dosed dirge “Republic of Dust.” Of the newer tracks, “Down By Law” is the more dissonant and desperate-sounding of the two, while “Banana” peels off some slippery guitar licks in the vein of Oblivians at the point when the barkeep is on the verge of announcing to them last call- riding these beer-battered and greasy chain whip guitars to the rhythm of a classic mischief-making and booty-shaking garage rock beat.
And then there are the last two tracks, both of which are from their split EP, and each embodying a different discrete palette of atmospheric, dissociative and calamitous hardcore. This is an absolutely wild listen, from cover to cover.
Extend the width of your record collection a little more today buy picking up a copy of Punk In the Digital Age Extended via Bandcamp below:
The vinyl pressing of this record is still in the pre-order phase. The first press run looks like this:
150 on black vinyl
100 on clear gold vinyl
100 on clear red vinyl (band exclusive)
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