Eighteen Hours of Static – 10 Year Anniversary Repress

Big Ups

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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 fist. Then a barbed F-sharp 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, specific 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 first time around will get a shot at living as if it’s the glory days again.

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Track Listings

  1. Body Parts
  2. Goes Black
  3. Justice
  4. Grin
  5. Wool
  6. TMI
  7. Little Kid
  8. Atheist Self-Help
  9. Disposer
  10. Fresh Meat
  11. Fine Line

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Big Ups

Before a Million Universes (Indies only coloured vinyl)

Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Tough Love | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code
Released 2nd March 2016
£15.00
  • Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo
  • Label: Tough Love
  • SKU: TLV087LPS
  • Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code
  • Released Date: 2nd March 2016