let's do a really quick post tonight before i have to go draw some shit and go to bed.... this Pheromoans ep caught my attention a while back but i never got around to posting it for some reason... but when i posted the Vaccuum EP last week and was talking about the cool little cut away detail on the back cover was it reminded me that i needed to post this record on here as well.
very nice illustrated composition on the front panel with some nice and sloppy hand written type. it's interesting that nothing on this cover seems to be centered or even straight on the page. this lack of concern for formalities is rather refreshing, and while i am sure it was intentional, it still comes off effortless somehow. well done...
lots more to look at on the back.... there is that cut away i was talking about in the previous post i made last week, does anyone know who is manufacturing these covers? it's offset printed on watercolor paper and then die-cut and glued, and it's easily my new favorite type of 7" record sleeve. i just love feeling the tooth from the paper when you pick this thing up, very cool. back cover has more of that sloppy inked out hand writing for the song titles and then even less of that same style of illustration from the front....
A and B labels are a standard issue from the record label, but they look decent...
sadly, no insert, but i bet it would have been a hand written masterpiece! pick this up from Sweet Rot Records directly....
The one thing I don't like about the drop-notch is that it exposes a bunch of grooves on the record and after so many years the grooves get beat up... no big deal in most cases, but if you're doing something close-up (like ripping a record to your computer while listening through headphones), the extra pops and clicks at the beginning of that one side of the 7" really start to show up... I agree with you that it does make the sleeve look nicer, though (I think both the new Dead Uncles 7" and Young Republicans 7" have a drop notch).
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