JEROMES DREAM/ORCHID split 10" skull-shaped
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This is a used copy (listened to once) of the Jeromes Dream/Orchid split - not glow-in-the-dark, but just as many of this version were pressed as the glow-in-dark one.
Jeromes Dream was a Connecticut screamo band, active from 1997 to 2001. The band had a unique vocal style - singer Jeff Smith opted not to use a microphone while performing live, instead screaming unamplified at the top of his lungs. The band was known for playing very short sets, usually no longer than 10 minutes. According to Smith, they thought 10 minutes was all they needed to get their point across.
The band's second full length album, Presents, featured a drastic change in vocal style, abandoning the raw screams of their earlier work in favor of a talk-singing style filtered through an effects processor. This stylistic shift was rumored to a product of vocal cord damage sustained by their singer from the repeated strain of performing. However, Smith cites an anecdote in which while recording with Orchid his voice cut off and he passed out in the recording booth. Afterward, they changed their style overall.
After Jeromes Dream, Jeff Smith went on to play experimental drone music with Joseph Grimm as the Wind-Up Bird. Drummer Erik Ratensperger now plays drums in the band Best Inventions and runs NYC streetwear label Mishka.
Orchid were an early screamo band from Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the screamo sound, Orchid combined a postmodern aesthetic with hardcore punk, releasing several now-hard-to-find EPs and splits as well as three full-length records. Orchid's influences are assumed to be Canadian hardcore band Union of Uranus and One Eyed God Prophecy, but band members more often cite the German bands Systral and Carol.
Posthumously, a CD compiling all of their singles and split releases (Totality on Clean Plate Records) was released, which comprised all of the out of press and hard to find material previously only available on vinyl.
• Jeromes Dream/Orchid, 10" Skull-Shaped Record [EP]
? Witching Hour Records
? Released May, 2000.
? Availability: Out of Print
? Notable Characteristics: One sided 10" with both bands on one side. Jeromes Dreams' songs played from the inside-out, and vice-versa.
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