Beacon Comics #1 w/ 7" split (Direct Hit / Decent Criminal) – [GREEN NOISE EXCLUSIVE: Color Vinyl] – New Comic / New 7"

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Dirtnap Records presents: Beacon Comics #1
w/ split 7” (Direct Hit / Decent Criminal)

One-time issue of 500!!

Blue Vinyl (Green Noise Exclusive!) 100 copies.

Red Vinyl (Green Noise Exclusive!) 100 copies.

Black Vinyl 300 copies. 

Order two or more copies and get free shipping to USA address.  (or combine with other items to get free shipping).

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Catalog Number: Dirtnap ZZZ-171

Format: Comic Book + 7"

SPLIT 7" Track List:

1.     Wasteland (Direct Hit)

2.     Dream (Decent Criminal)

3.     Time (Decent Criminal)

Dirtnap Records will publish the first installment of Beacon Comics, packaged with a 7" record featuring "Wasteland," a taste of dubiously-forthcoming album from Direct Hit (Milwaukee, Fat Wreck Chords), and songs "Time" and "Dream" from Decent Criminal (Santa Rosa, Diised/Gunner Records). 

At some point during quarantine - with an album of new material shelved, and a month-long European tour canceled - Direct Hit singer/songwriter Nick Woods found himself working on a story about the future.  'I'd get on video calls with my friends Dylan [Brown] and Jenny [Lapham], and we'd joke about being locked up with nothing to do - just like everyone else was,  At some point, I got it into my head that this was all training for some kind of future where virtual reality would be the only way to experience the universe. And since I had nothing else to do, I figured I'd start writing some of that stuff down.'  Together, Nick, Dylan, and Jenny - along with long-time Direct Hit collaborator and illustrator Walker Dubois - pieced together the first half of BEACON #1 from Woods's notes, producing a science fiction comic about a person named Doro, and their robot caretaker Partner, as civilization is reborn from apocalypse.  

"Wasteland" was a tune I recorded by myself, a couple months after we canceled all our scheduled shows, and right around when I admitted to myself that I wasn't gonna be able to be in a full-time band for a while,' Woods says. 'This was also right after when George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police. So I was angry, and depressed, and embarrassed, and felt like I had to do something to express that mindset, and show some solidarity. The original version is really nasty-sounding - this one is too, but a lot more listenable.  We had the first part of this book lying around. So we figured it was good a time as any to try something far-out, with a label that wasn't scared to experiment."

This lavishly packaged comic/7” combo is a one-time only pressing of 500 (300 on black, 100 on red, 100 on blue) and will only be available for a limited time. Get yours today!