Give Me More!

After relentlessly spinning the Give full length over the past month or two, I have decided to further delve into their catalogue and see what I have been missing out on. The easiest thing to find with a quick eBay search was their newest EP, so that's what I ended up with. 

Give - Sonic Bloom - Revelation Records - 1st Press - Yellow /700 

Although it would've made sense to go backwards and discover something from a little ways back, I couldn't resist this artwork. Kinya Masuo did a great job, creating all of this by hand with clay. Another big seller for this was the fact that it came out on Rev, and I'm making a little more of an effort to dig into the history of this incredible label. 

Back Cover // B-Side 

Revelation Records have their logo immortalised in clay, and it looks super neat. Another weird thing is how the barcode is half cropped in the top corner. The one thing I will say though is this fucking record has never been yellow. It's orange. 

Insert 

This is mostly made up of the clay models on the sleeve with a larger Rev logo in the centre. 

Insert 

It was super hard to photograph, hence that nasty flash kicking in the middle. From what I gather this was recorded at the same time as Electric Flower Circus, in the same studio and engineered by the same guy (Don Zientara), even including some of the same songs. The Crucial John clay model definitely cracks me up though... 

Finally, a Rev order form. I love that you can still do this with a record label, although I wouldn't particularly use it being outside of the US. 

Cheers!