Glassjaw have a brand new 30th anniversary box set on the way in which, dubbed The Playable Collection, together with an 88-page, 12″x12″ book.
The Playable Collection contains new vinyl pressings of all three Glassjaw full-lengths — 2000’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence, 2002’s Worship and Tribute, and 2017’s Material Control — together with 2011’s Our Colour Green and Coloring Book EPs.
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Each LP is available in its personal jacket, and all 5 are housed in a sturdy corresponding, numbered slipcase. The Playable Collection is offered as two units —one on black vinyl with white jackets and one on white vinyl with black jackets. Each set is proscribed to 1,993 copies.
The book is an oral and visible historical past of the individuals and locations that influenced Glassjaw, which the band put along with our pals at BrooklynVegan and Revolver. The book is essentially set in 1993, the 12 months Glassjaw fashioned. It options archival photographs of iconic NYC scenes and locales from the Nineteen Nineties, in addition to archival photographs of Glassjaw themselves and present photographs of Glassjaw artifacts, just like the doll from the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang cowl and the turntable from the Worship and Tribute cowl. The photographs are interspersed with interviews with a few of Glassjaw’s greatest influences, collaborators, and former members, together with Walter Schreifels (Quicksand), Gavin Van Vlack (Burn), Tommy Corrigan (Silent Majority), Arthur Shepherd (Mind Over Matter), Julian Vasquez (Stillsuit), Don Fury, and extra.
The book can be obtainable in two covers — a black version and a white version — restricted to 993 every, and there’s a gold hardcover version, additionally restricted to 993. There’s additionally The Deluxe Playable Collection, which pairs gold vinyl variants of every file with a gold hardcover version of the book, and that’s restricted to 500.
You can preorder all editions of The Playable Collection and the Glassjaw book within the AP Shop now. See some mock-ups beneath.
Glassjaw even have upcoming 30th anniversary exhibits this December.
Glassjaw 2023 tour dates
12/20 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
12/21 Los Angeles, CA Echoplex
12/28 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall
12/29 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
12/30 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
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