L7 - Smell The Magic (Black Vinyl)

L7 - Smell The Magic (Black Vinyl)This 30th anniversary edition of the 90s underground rock classic Smell the Magic includes all 9 songs from the album, remastered and available together on vinyl for the first time ever! A multitude of rock music scenes populated the expanse of Los Angeles in 1989: hardcore punk, industrial goth, roots rock, and Sunset Strip hair metal, to name a few. L7 fit into none of them, creating their own unique blend of punk and hard, hooky rock loaded with

relying on a much more subdued approach that creates an almost tangible tension between melody and noise throughout the entire album

Albums such as 1998's Dave Fridmann-produced A Dream In Sound and 2008's collaboration with the late folk rock icon Vic Chesnutt

a nod to drummer Shiraz Bhatti’s Pakistani heritage

at times spindly vocals about despair and desolation of many kinds

In grappling with grief and loss on both personal and global scales

starting with his 1992 instrumental masterpiece Warm and Cool

Codes And Keys was originally released in 2011 and is back in stock

While the original version delivered a masterclass in razor-sharp post punk

It was an evolution that would produce some of the most startlingly brilliant and innovative music of the period

the sheer scope of their achievements is stunning — rarely are bands quite so productive

) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo

Unapologetically