Killing A Camera

As I've mentioned on this blog before, I spent a lot of time earlier this year obsessing over Modest Mouse. There were a few of their albums that I rediscovered and they all hooked me much deeper than they did in the early 2000's. Since Modest Mouse were seeing so much action on my Spotify account, the algorithm started making recommendations for bands that fell into that similar style of music. Cue another discovery of an older band that I didn't truly appreciate the first time around.

Braid were another indie/emo band from the mid to late 90's that I had checked out at the time, but never really connected with. I bought a couple of 7 inches and CDs from the band, so I obviously gave them plenty of chances, however, nothing really hit me the way that I wanted... and after their Niagara 7 inch in 1997, I stopped trying. When Spotify put the Braid song Killing A Camera on my radar over the summer, I was amazed at just how good that song was. I was surprised that I hadn't been into this song back in the day, and when I looked into it, I found that it came from their album Frame & Canvas, which was released in 1998... after I'd given up on the band. Killing A Camera was such a great song, that I quickly checked out the full album it came from... and when I started listening to that entire record daily, I knew that I was going to need to buy the vinyl.

I've had a few problems buying stuff off of Discogs lately. Each one has easily been resolved with the seller, but it is disappointing to buy something that you are excited for, only to have it arrived damaged or for the seller to send a different pressing than the one that you'd ordered. I guess that I still assume that people know what they are doing, but after being burned a couple of times, it makes me wish that the Discogs marketplace would at least force sellers to list photos of the actual item. With this Braid record, I wanted the blue vinyl pressing from 2003. It looked better than any of the recent represses on various colors, so that's what I was holding out for. Months went by before Discogs showed a seller with a copy for a good price, and when I saw it, I jumped on it. Only what the seller sent was the 2020 reissue on silver and blue swirl. Not what I'd ordered. The seller was easy to work with and ended up giving me a refund so that at the end of the day the record only cost me $6, and that was enough for me to keep it.