The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Grails Title:  Burning Off Impurities Label: Temporary Residence Cat #: TRR 118 Year of Release: 2007 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2007 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/3/25 Sell Price: $6.56 Discogs Last Sold: 6/4/25 NM/VG+ $4.56 Low: $1.50 Median: $5.66 Average: $5.52 High: $7.99 Current low price: $6.67 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 481/71 Where: Carson City, NV Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 or $3 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No Grails was one of those bands I was curious about hearing, and I had no idea why.  Didn't know they were from Portland, OR or had Emil Amos, who drummed on the Om record I didn't hear the next year.  All I knew was a band name I heard somewhere and snapped it up in a cheap lot of cds.  In the back of my head, I knew I'd flip it someday. This is ambient post-rock.  With that sentence, I find myself imitating the video...

  Artist: Terentel Title: The Order Of Things Label: Neurot Format: CD Catalog Number: NR010 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2001 Sell Price: $4.82 Sell Date: 2/15/25 Condition: VG/VG Discogs Last Sold: 1/8/25 NM/VG+ $6.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $5.97 Average: $7.04 High: $15.79 Current Low Price: $4.98 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 18 Have/Want: 312/57 Where Sold:  Leesburg, VA Time It Took  To Sell:  12 years Where and When  Bought: dollar bin somewhere in NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C Sad To See  It Go: No Occasionally a CD sells, and I have no recollection of acquiring it.  Since this came out in 2001, I'm guessing one of two places.  Either I saw it in the dollar pile on the wall at Kim's Underground on St. Marks and pulled it because it was on Neurot which had Neurosis, Isis and most importantly Oxbow.  The other possibility is I heard it on 3WK, which I was listening to around that time and mail ...

  Artist: Kinski Title: 7 (or 8) Label: Kill Rock Stars Format: CD Catalog Number: KRS597 Year of Release: 2015 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2015 Sell Price: $4.38 Sell Date: 2/10/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/24/24 M/M $14.80 Low: $4.09 Median: $6.19 Average: $7.04 High: $14.80 Current  low price:  $5.99 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 8 Have/Want: 51/15 Where Sold:  Barrington, IL Time It Took  To Sell:  4 years Where and When  Bought: The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No I was wracking my brain for the one time I remembered seeing Kinski.  I seemed to remember them playing at Club Europa in Brooklyn and looking that up on setlist.fm, they played there in 2007.  I didn't even realize they moved from Sub Pop to Kill Rock Stars or did stuff with Acid Mothers Temple.  Despite liking them when I saw them, it never translated into exploring their catalog.  No...

  Artist: Explosions In The Sky Title:  The Rescue (Travels In Constants Volume Twenty-One) Label: Temporary Residence Limited Format: CD Cat: TIC21 Year of Release: 2005 Country and Year of Edition: US 2005 slipcase  Sell Price: $20.58 11/22/23 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 10/2/23 M/M $38.46 Low: $10.99 Median: $23.99 Average: $25.93 High:  $48.10 Current low price: $12.00 NM/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 442/270 Where Sold: London, UK Time It Took To Sell:  2 years Where and When Bought: The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No Austin post-rock stalwarts since 1999 had 3 albums under their belt when they issued this 8 track conceptual EP.  The concept according to the insert was to record a song a day for two weeks.  They stopped at 8 days to do mixes for the rest of the week.  This has since been reissued and supposedly remastered in 2019, but since I didn't know this immaculate s...

  Artist: HALO Title:  Guattari (From The West Flows Grey Ash and Pestilence) Label: Relapse Format: CD Cat:  RR 6492-2 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition: US 2001 Sell Price: $2.99 10/19/22 VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold:3/22/22 NM/VG+ $1.25 Low:$1.00 Median: $2.49 Average: $2.81 High: $4.90 Current low price: $1.96 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 42 Have/Want: 254/26 Where Sold:   MIlford, CT Time it took to sell:  10  years Where and When Purchased: internet early aughts used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No I first heard of London via Melbourne's Halo by way of Paul Simmons (Alchemysts, Bevis Frond, The Cravats, WMBR ...) as something to check out sometime in the mid aughts.  That led to this 3rd LP purchase with the 5th, Body of Light.  An Australian label called Embryo Recordings issued the first 4 albums and this one was reissued in the US by Relapse in 2001. Guattari is a fruit of multiple generati...

  Artist: Mono Title: You Are There Label: Temporary Residence Format: CD Cat:  TRR 98 Year of Release: 2006 Country and Year of Edition: US 2006 slipcase Sell Price: $9.99 10/22/22 VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold:10/7/22 VG+/VG $4.00 Low:$0.15 M/M ships from Germany Median: $7.84 Average: $7.17 High: $9.99 Current low price: $3.92 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 40 Have/Want: 869/72 Where Sold:   Glen Allen, MS Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The 4th album from Tokyo's MONO was engineered by Steve Albini back in 2005 in Chicago at the expected Electrical Audio Studios.  This is the "post-rock" wing of Albini's world, one that encompasses Slint, Mogwai and many many others.  MONO is on the next tier, and I hadn't seen them live until recently at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last April.    Since a band like this I consider "atmospheric" music, my brain automatically shuffles it to the background and I never bother to learn th...

  Artist: UI Title: The Iron Apple Label: Southern Records Format:  CD Cat  18571-2 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/24/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last 4/21/22 M/M $4.96 Low: $0.93 Median: $4.96 Average: $4.37 High: $8.67 Current low price:$2.00 NM/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:2 Have/Want: 139/11 Where Sold: Maplewood, NJ Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: NYC Kim's used around time of release Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No When Rubric started our office up in 1999, it was the dawn of internet streaming.  Before almost every college station was broadcasting, I would listen to an internet station 3WK to have some background noise and keep up with new releases in the indie rock realm.  It was there that I discovered I liked this CD and snapped up a copy when I saw it in Kim's used bin around that time. I had no idea that NY Times music critic Sasha F...

  Artist: Pelican Title: March Into The Sea March Into The Sea/ / Angel Tears (JK Broaderick Remix) Label: Hydra Head Format: CD EP Cat #: HH-666-84 Year of Release: 2005 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2005 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/21/22 Sell Price: $4.99 Discogs Last Sold: 1/4/22 $3.99 Low: $2.00 Median: $5.24 Average: $5.41 High: $10.00 Current low price: $2.18 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 647/58 Where Sold: Lancaster, OH Time it took to sell:  1 1/2 years Where and When Bought: given from The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Pelican were one of my personal favorite bands from the turn of the aughts.  They followed in the instrumental "post-rock" realm that bands like Don Caballero and The Fucking Champs forged before them. So you get lots of punishment.  Repetition .  Riffing. Changing.  Repeating some more.  I'm amazed I stopped afte...

  Artist:  Mogwai Title: Every Country's Sun Label: Temporary Residence Limited Format: CD Cat #: TRR291CD Year of Release: 2017 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2017 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 12/28/21 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/21/21 M/M $8.99 Low: $2.99 Median: $5.99 Average: $6.89 High: $14.50 Current low price: $4.68 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 186/49 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time it took to sell: 1 year Where and When Bought: The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C Sad To See It Go: No Mogwai is one of those bands everybody likes and I don't.  This was part of the box of indie CD's my friend Jimmy was purging that the used store on Carmine wouldn't take.  Shockingly new in it's 2017 release date.  This is perhaps the newest title I've written about to date. As for this specific album, it's a more ambient keyboard driven version of what I liked about t...