Touché Amoré's debut full length "... To the Beat of a Dead Horse" is a record firmly placed in my top 5 favourite records of all time. It came to me at the perfect time. I believe I stumbled across this record in late 2010, and after hearing the track 'History Reshits Itself' featuring Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley (who co released the record through his label Collect Records). I was hooked. In fact I was beyond hooked, more full on obsessed. For close to a full year I played this record around 5 times a day; even now it gets near enough daily spins. 11 tracks coming in at around 20 minutes. This record could not be more brilliant. I suck at describing music, but if you're into the more emotional vein of hardcore and/or record collecting, there is a fairly good chance you have heard this record, or at least of the band. If you have not, I strongly urge you to hear this record, it's one of the very few records I can describe as life changing.
Any way, on to the vinyl. I was determined to have a complete collection of this, and I'm only missing test presses. Being perfectly honest, I'm more than happy with what I have. So on to the records!
Although this was in no way the order I got them in, it's easier to post them in order of pressing. With that in mind:
1st press: black/200 (also termed as night). The colours of the record parallel an element or something, very deep and mysterious, i'm into it.
1st press: brown/300 (dirt). This came out as a super ugly brown mix, I like it though, it was the second copy of the record I got and also my first variant of the 1st press.
Completing the standard colours of the first press is grey/400 (cloud). People get the most fussy with this variant as apparently there were a few transitional presses, each with a fair amount of black in. Being honest they do look super nice, but i'm not going to waste too much thought on it. I wouldn't say no to one at all, but it doesn't make my collection any more or less complete to me.
I say that now...
This is going to be the first of a few entries on this LP, next I will go through the second press, along with some quirky design changes and comparisons from the first press. Already working on it though!
