To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of their first album, Seattle alt-rock trio the Presidents of the United States of America undertook a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign to help officially bring their self-titled debut to wax. (There are some dodgy bootlegs on the market if you know where to find them.) How successful? They blew past their $25,000 goal within an hour of the page going live and wound up with over $325,000 to use for a remastered version of the record pressed on nausea-inducing green vinyl. I believe this will be widely available at some point, but for now it remains a backer exclusive. And those 6,605 lucky souls that supported the cause will be treated to a nice transfer of the PUSA’s herky-jerky pop-punk that hasn’t lost an ounce of its lean, giddy energy.
I would love to hear what this sounds like a black vinyl as the marbled wax does carry with it a noticeable amount of hiss and rumble. Luckily the loud interplay of Chris Ballew and Dave Dederer’s understrung guitars and drummer Jason Fine’s cocktail kit tends to push that into the background and can probably be EQ’d down on a finer stereo.
The PUSA video for the great song “Lump.” We will be releasing a plain black version of the album in the fall. So tell your local record store you want them to stock a copy.
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