This is the same Absinthe 7” that has shown up on a couple other blogs. The cover for my copy was a small run limited edition they threw together to play some out of town shows, but the music is the same. This is their second and last release and I like it better than their 10” but only slightly. It’s just as crushing, but there is more of an urgent angst filled madness to these songs. This is the result of a bunch of good bands breaking up (Slag, Groundwork, Spill Blanket and Teeth) whose members took the best qualities of those bands and formed a great band. They were short lived, but were influential to a lot of bands that could never quite reach this level of greatness. There’s You Tube footage of them here in Goleta with Jeff Ugstad on guitar after he replaced Gabe. There has been long talk of a reissue of this record on King of the Monsters or singer Brendon’s Protagonist Records, but nothing has surfaced yet.
Here's a mediafire link for a vinyl rip of their 10". The rip is crackly, but the album is really good.
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