I have a system of posting records here on the blog... first in, first to post. Records arrive in the mail and they go to the bottom of the stack, so I'm always posting those that I received first. However, in the case of this post, I had to deviate from that plan.
The latest Higher Power record, and especially the song
Absolute Bloom, was definitely my soundtrack for the summer. That song was definitely caught up in my Spotify algorithm and ended up in the playlist every time that I would use their radio, plus I was spinning the album quite a bit... so yeah, the new Higher Power was definitely setting the summer vibe for me.
The thing is, I really didn't expect to like this record, and initially I'd planned on just ignoring it. I ended up really liked the last Higher Power record, 27 Miles Underwater, but even then they were moving away from the typical 90's hardcore sound that had first attracted me to them. With this new record, I just assumed that they were going to further distance themselves from hardcore, and I just wasn't interested in seeing what their next step was... but soon I recognized that I was falling into the typical limited thinking and resistance that I used to get trapped in. I adjusted my mindset and decided to check out the new Higher Power record, looking for something new and surprising... and while it isn't my favorite Higher Power record, it was still a perfect record for what I needed this summer.
So, while the vinyl only just arrived in the mail yesterday, I felt that the proper thing to do was to move it to the top of my backlog stack, and get this posted before summer officially ends tomorrow.
2 comments:
I listened to this today for the first time after seeing your post. I remember seeing the preorder go up and thinking that the rare colour looked horrible and not placing an order. But now I kinda wish I had as it looks like purple is the only other colour out of two billion copies.
Yeah, the extremely rare case of a label not pressing 16 different color options.
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