Voodoo Leather

 Another post night shift evening, another Doors LP on the Turntable (this time it’s the truly incredible Absolutely Live double LP) and another post. Moving from the 7” format into cassettes, mostly because it was pretty late in the evening and I couldn’t get enough decent light to photograph an LP. 

Give - Voodoo Leather - 1st Press Cassette - Yellow Shell /200 w/ Zine - Heartworm Press - 200 Copies

 

Voodoo Leather was released through Heartworm Press, a label and publication works run by Wes Eisold of American Nightmare and Cold Cave. Putting out a Give release seemed a little left field, but I’m a big fan of near enough anything Wes does so this was cool to grab. 

The J-Card folds out into a weird vibey Live Photo that works well with the cover art and the shell. As a quick aside, the tracks were mostly new efforts with a re-recording of ‘Godspeeding’ from the self titled 12” - I haven’t listened to that 12” EP in a minute, but I’ll likely do a post on it before long, I’m in a real Give mood when the sun comes around. 

This is the central page from the zine, which keeps the colour scheme of the release, and it ties in with the Heartworm connection well. The zine came a little dog eared but I’m more than okay with it, as most copies floating around nowadays are missing the zine completely. The seller also included a copy of a Wes Eisold poetry collection ‘Alternative Useless Irrational Magic’ which was super sweet of them. 

The zine contains a mix of band personnel info, Flowerheads stuff, lyrics, flyers and live photography. I love reading through this kinda shit. 

As something to end on; this was the only piece of correspondence I got as a Flowerhead. This was the newsletter from Fall 2018 saying the band were done and played their last show in DC. The reverse contained lyrics of the last 3 Give tracks (Build Your Own God / Love in This House / We Want New) and those songs came out on a promo cassette released through Advanced Perspective (I think?). There was a sticker with this newsletter too. 

The reason I added this at the end is Give posted from their Instagram account for the first time in a few years this last week. The photo is of the band timestamped in 2022; and who knows what that means for us? Personally I’d love more from this band, and the chance to see them once more.