Lengthy Island post-hardcore favs Glassjaw will certainly be releasing their 1998 periods with producer Don Fury on vinyl for the primary time ever. Final month noticed Fury spill the beans a bit sooner than deliberate, nevertheless, immediately (December 02nd) discovered the official announcement being made.
These periods discovered the band monitoring 8 songs with Fury behind the boards. A number of of these included cuts would later be re-recorded and seem upon the band’s 2000 Ross Robinson-produced debut album, “Every part You Ever Needed To Know About Silence“.
Fury has personally overseen the remastering of the every of the aforementioned 8 songs for this new launch, which can arrive on March 07th on opaque yellow coloured vinyl. The digital launch of the set, titled “Don Fury Classes“, has been slated for that very same date.
“Don Fury Classes: monitor itemizing:
01 – “Fairly Lush”
02 – “One Eight Turns into Two Zeros”
03 – “Ry Ry’s Music”
04 – “Majour”
05 – “Motel Of White Lotus”
06 – “Matchbook Blackbook”
07 – “Harlem”
08 – “Practice In Useless”
For pre-orders, head to revhq.com. Within the meantime, Mike Gitter, a previous A&R for Roadrunner Information and now Vice President of A&R at Century Media (who issued Glassjaw‘s newest album “Materials Management“,) penned the next of this assortment of songs now being slated for a sonically overhauled new launch:
“There’s a disparaging, and fortunately long-lost, letter that I penned to a pal who was making an attempt to tip me off to the soon-to-be Lengthy Island iconoclasts Glassjaw. In it, I summarily dismissed the post-hardcore band as one other entry in a protracted checklist of main label interlopers like Jawbox and Shudder to Suppose. From post-hardcore career-men like Orange 9mm to the obscure likes of Into One other, in the event you brandished an SG at your hip, you had been truthful recreation and there was a test with an sudden quantity of zeros ready for you. However that very small window of “something goes” when majors had been scrambling to get their mitts on their share of the turf kicked up with Nirvana and the Seattle grunge motion was closing.
Within the wake of that, Glassjaw was collateral harm. I used to be satisfied post-hardcore was a mainstream nonstarter. Regardless of the actual fact it was a subgenre I personally gravitated to as a result of I signed pioneering acts like Jawbox, Samiam, and CIV to varied main labels, I had my hopes dashed towards the rocks of commerce too many occasions so I ended taking such formidable dangers. These bands gave nice cultural contributions, however weren’t financially viable within the eyes of majors.
Proper after I despatched that aforementioned letter, I noticed them really carry out at an Earth Disaster present on Lengthy Island. That is the place a sound akin to Dangerous Brains, NYHC, Dischord proto-emo, and one thing completely undefinable pulled me in. It was the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang period and roughshod as they had been, I used to be intrigued. At that time, Glassjaw was one thing unexpectedly nice, in chrysalis. However saddled with A&R duties at a brand new label, I wanted to seek out economically sound and commercially viable acts.
Which brings us to this recording. The Classes, achieved in 1998, at Don Fury Studio at 18 Spring Road Nolita NYC, now a 12 months after the letter, was the start of the materialization of Glassjaw’s full depth of sound and creativity. This maturation was made potential as a result of Don Fury was not merely New York hardcore’s most prolific producer however furthermore, its biggest advocate and documentarian recording and capturing contemporaries together with Agnostic Entrance, Sick Of It All, Gorilla Biscuits, Underdog, Quicksand, Shelter, CIV, and a slew of others at a time when hardcore-punk solely existed underground to a distinct segment and discriminating viewers.
Recognizing the huge potential of Glassjaw’s attain, Don labored with the band and created these tracks in an effort to signal them to his personal subsidiary label. In the end, Fury’s company distributor rejected the band regardless of numerous arguments and makes an attempt. In defiance, Fury had 100 cassettes of The Classes made they usually started to flow into underground. With out the band’s data, that cassette discovered its approach to my desk. This set off a series response that also has sonic quantity and musical forex immediately.
The reality is: Don Fury’s The Classes wasn’t the music I had beforehand dismissed. Regardless that the band was not designed for mass consumption, this was clearly one thing completely different with a will of its personal that also casts a protracted shadow immediately. This demo was the absolutely fleshed-out utterances of a musical language that was simply starting to be spoken. Positive, there have been loads of bands who, after listening to these songs, tried a Glassjaw-esque components that went on to higher, albeit momentary success, however Glassjaw would outlast and outclass all of them.
To Glassjaw in 1993, the mixture of a Revelation Information launch produced by Don Fury can be the epitome of success. This was their solely objective, so it’s each poetic justice and a wealthy notch on their belt to have these authentic tracks from 1998 remastered by Don Fury to be launched by Revelation over 30 years later.
–Mike Gitter“
