rice control. rice 04 / 4 tracks / dec 1998

+ lyric booklet. Original pressings: 100 on pink vinyl, 100 on black, 300 on light blue. One of my blue vinyl copies has a real photo glued to the cover, the other blue vinyl one has a different hand screened cover design. Tour edition has band photo on cover. Repress has some additional cover/vinyl versions, one has a plain white vellum cover with band logos glued on, green swirly vinyl, lyrics glued inside the sleeve; another one has a large 7”x7” b/w live photo of the band instead of a sleeve, black vinyl. Maybe other variations (and definitely more different sleeves), but vinyl-wise I have only seen green and black for the repress.

Whoa, screamo with a trumpet - that’s something new. Not bad, though; the rest of Amalgamation’s music is good powerful stuff even though it’s a bit chaotic at times. JD play their trademark mix of noise, melodies and screaming, complex and highly original - excellent. Good record, get this for the JD tracks. [8]

Screamo mit Trompete - das ist mal was neues und kommt gar nicht schlecht. Ansonsten sind die Amalgamation-Songs gut und kraftvoll, auch wenn sie stellenweise etwas chaotisch wirken. Jerome’s Dream spielen ihre wie üblich geniale Mischung aus Melodien, Krach und Geschrei.

Tracks: Amalgamation - this song is for me / as i slip into roles // Jerome’s Dream - everyday at 3:06 / the last time we talked