Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static [LP Tin Vinyl, 10 Year Anniversary Repress With Insert]

EXPLODING IN SOUND RECORDS

£25.90

Cat. no: LPEIS001C
Format: LP Tin Vinyl, 10 Year Anniversary Repress With Insert
Barcode: 810096656490
Release Date: 20 Sep 2024
Genre: Indie

Here is what 2014 felt like: The cold, rushed walk from the Montrose
Avenue L to the downstairs entrance of 20 Meadow Street, an address
you could never quite remember

The careful steep climb to the top of the nondescript building, where Titus
Andronicus's Patrick Stickles was waiting to take your balled-up cash and stamp
the inside of your wrist. Standing beneath that jagged cardboard punk bunting,
draped with tangled twinkle lights, while Joe Galarraga, frontman of Big Ups,
slowly, menacingly, wound a microphone cable around his fst. Then a barbed Fsharp sprang forward from Amar Lal's guitar, shaking the entirety of Shea
Stadium to life.

For much of that time period, ten years now behind us, it would be easy to say,
man, you just had to be there. You had to be there when Death By Audio closed.
You had to be there when the Apple store opened on Bedford Ave. If you weren't
there when a small, specifc subculture of New York City took over its abandoned
lofts and grimy basements and squatted itself into community, that's okay -- it
might be too clunky and myopic to explain now. Released in January 2014 to
Dead Labour in the US and Tough Love Records in the UK, Eighteen Hours of
Static stands even now as a triumphant representation of what Big Ups did so
well over the course of their nine-year run as a band. Now, with the re-release of
Big Ups' killer debut full-length, those who didn't get to experience all this the frst
time around will get a shot at living as if it's the glory days again.

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