Oxford Collapse-Remember The Night Parties (2006)


 

Artist: Oxford Collapse

Title: Remember The Night Parties

Label: Sub Pop

Format: CD

Cat: SPCD 727

Year of Release: 2006

Country and Year of Edition: US 2006

Sell Price: $2.99 VG+/VG+ hole punch in UPC 6/20/24

Discogs Last Sold:  11/15/23 VG+/VG $1.75

Low: $0.81

Median: $2.15

Average: $2.82

High: $6.00

Current low price: $1.08

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:38

Have/Want: 172/10

Where Sold: Burnaby, Pasadena, CA

Time it took to sell: 9 years

Where and When Purchased: straight up can't remember guessing NYC used somewhere mid aughts

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C-

Sad To See It Go: No

Every once in a while there is a CD in my collection I can't for the life of me remember buying.  By 2006 when this came out I was long out of buying everything on Sub Pop.  This was a short lived Brooklyn band, maybe somebody recommended them to me.  Maybe I was flipping though a CD bin and felt "adventurous."  This was the sort of driving indie rock I guess I would like in the mid-aughts on a tertiary level in the realm of Superchuck and Built To Spill.  They were initially on a Brooklyn label called Kanine whose catalog I ignored for the most part with bands whose names you see around town.

The band itself lasted only 8 years.  Sub Pop gave them a second shot in 2008 then they were done the next year.  You wonder why this happens since they didn't really form anything else of great note.  The leader Michael Pace went on to do a one man project called The Child Actors.  It's the sort of stuff places like Stereogum and Pitchfork grovel over.  The vocals are double tracked or melodically ganged and brattily anthemic.  The type of stuff that you hear in ads directed to white middle class of a certain age, primarily Gen Y.  Maybe you could hear this in a new bar with finished wood unscathed by marker or knife and some avocado toast on the menu.  After a couple listens I could take it or leave it.

Mostly leave it.

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