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Vinyl love: Lowest of the Low “Thrifty thrifty thrifty”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Lowest of the Low
Album Title: Thrifty thrifty thrifty
Year released: 2018
Details: Black vinyl, part of five album box set, autographed and limited to 300 copies, (box set includes booklet, lyrics sheets, poster, and stickers)

The skinny: For the final instalment in this series on Lowest of the Low’s “Shakespeare… my box” vinyl box set, I present the only album in the collection that I had yet to hear before this week. “Thrifty thrifty thrifty” is the bonus disc of b-sides, live tracks, and rarities that was specifically put together for the set and isn’t available anywhere on its own. I didn’t listen to this record back when I first got the set and really, don’t think I’ll listen to it all that often, but still, really enjoyed giving it a spin. There’s some stuff on there I’d never heard before, which is saying a lot for a fan like me. And I really love the cover artwork, which for those not in the know, features some iconic and long-shutdown Toronto music shops.

Standout track: “New westminster taxi squad”

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Vinyl love: Lowest of the Low “Do the right now”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Lowest of the Low
Album Title: Do the right now
Year released: 2017
Year reissued: 2018
Details: Black vinyl, part of five album box set, autographed and limited to 300 copies, (box set includes booklet, lyrics sheets, poster, and stickers)

The skinny: The fourth instalment in this series featuring the five pieces in Lowest of the Low’s “Shakespeare my box” vinyl box set is the most recently released album in the set. It also happens to be the one with which I am the least familiar*. Released in 2017 after the band had already broken up and re-formed twice, “Do the right now” features a Lowest of the Low lineup that only includes two of its original members. Still, it is an album that feels very much in touch with what made their debut album, “Shakespeare my butt”, so successful and even includes two songs that had been written around the time of that album’s circulation but had never been recorded. Indeed, there is some excellent material here and even saw the Canadian indie stalwarts garner a tiny bit of exposure south of the border.

Standout track: “Powerlines”

*I say this with the exception of next week’s instalment but I will save this explanation for then.

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Vinyl love: Lowest of the Low “Sordid fiction”

(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)

Artist: Lowest of the Low
Album Title: Sordid fiction
Year released: 2004
Year reissued: 2018
Details: Black vinyl, part of five album box set, autographed and limited to 300 copies, (box set includes booklet, lyrics sheets, poster, and stickers)

The skinny: So yeah, today marks four years that I’ve been going strong with this blog. I thought long and hard about doing some sort of special post but in the end, I opted instead for experimenting with the format of the site* and another instalment on this “Shakespeare my box” series that I’ve been working on. Disc three in this Lowest of the Low set, like last week’s focus, is another disc that is seeing its first pressing to vinyl. Originally released ten years and a breakup/reunion cycle after their previous album, “Sordid fiction” was welcome news to fans like myself and of course, I bought it as soon it was released on compact disc. I’m not sure what I was expecting but the album fell somewhere in between the folk rock sound of the debut and the harder edged sophomore album and yeah, it had all the great Hawkins/Stanley songwriting. And whenever I listen to it, I think of the first time I attended Osheaga back in 2012 because this album was always being played between live acts on the small “Green” stage.

Standout track: “A casual overdose”

*Perhaps I’ll get myself together enough to pull together a special 5th anniversary post next year…