Carbon Based Lifeforms

[Blood Music]

All CBL records are sold out in USA shop now. A handful of Hydroponic and Interloper are left in the EU. Went very quickly!

[Blood Music]

All USA/Canada orders of these (and Kauan) are shipped out!

Gonna hafta haul ass over the next week to send the RotW copies.

[Karkassi]

Your order #10672 has just been shipped.

Holy shit! Its happening!

[Blood Music]

Enjoy!

[Slrfyr]

Got them (frosted vinyls each album + the CD), they look and sound amazing!

There's one thing I found when I took a picture of all three CDs next to each other: The tracks are numbered across all albums, but #23 (between two albums: World of Sleepers and Interloper) seems to be missing. When I looked it up on discogs (here: https://www.discogs.com/Carbon-Based-Lif...se/8624102) there seems to be an additional track ("Mechanism") that doesn't seem to be included in my copy. The vinyl doesn't list this track either, is this intended? Maybe the Album wouldn't fit on 1xCD | 2xVinyl with this track added?

[Blood Music]

Great! Yeah, it was the band's wishes - this was actually decided so long ago that I can't remember why now, so you can try asking them if you wish!

[winterburner]

Discogs investigation yields results: said track appears as a hidden track at the end of the original pressing of WoS. Maybe they wanted the original pressing to have something special compared to the reissue. Dunno.

Got my vinyl, got my CDs. Both sound absolutely fantastic. Still need to sit down and listen to 'em properly with headphones but spun all through through my desktop speakers as background music and no complaints there. Might also mention that they look phenomenal - both the CDs and the splatter vinyl, from the packaging to the discs themselves. Got some quality products right there.

BTW - you know if the CD master differs from the digital versions available on their Bandcamp or is it the same?

[Blood Music]

Awesome, thanks man and glad you like them!! So much time went into those, haha. Took forever, a lot of people lost their shit waiting for them.

Some guy left a really nasty comment on the band's page that they sound like shitty mp3s. I think his set up must be fucked or something - everyone so far has reported top sound, and they sound phenomenal to me. :o Sigh, it only takes one person yelling.

Actually, the CD timings are different than Bandcamp. I edited silence from tracks, particularly on Interloper if I remember right. And one of the albums was in danger of going overlong and glitching, so there was a band edit of a track (unannounced). The vinyl is 'uncut' in that respect, but I did trim the silence there too to make a better flow between tracks on those albums.

[winterburner]

Nice, thanks for the info! Just wondering if I should rip the CDs or just stick to the Bandcamp downloads. Well, ripped them CDs anyway. Seems like they have a better flow to the albums.

Another inquiry - there a chance to get the cover art in high resolution? Can only find 600*600 pix versions of the artwork you used on your pressings.

[Blood Music]

I think the band's digital version is what they want online. The colors were only modified for printing, as I warned them that cover would never print correctly.