Glassjaw announce 30th anniversary vinyl box set and book

Glassjaw have a brand new thirtieth anniversary field set on the best way, dubbed The Playable Assortment, together with an 88-page, 12″x12″ guide.

The Playable Assortment contains new vinyl pressings of all three Glassjaw full-lengths — 2000’s The whole lot You Ever Wished to Know About Silence, 2002’s Worship and Tribute, and 2017’s Materials Management — together with 2011’s Our Color Inexperienced and Coloring Ebook EPs.

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Every LP is available in its personal jacket, and all 5 are housed in a sturdy corresponding, numbered slipcase. The Playable Assortment is obtainable as two units —one on black vinyl with white jackets and one on white vinyl with black jackets. Every set is proscribed to 1,993 copies.

The guide is an oral and visible historical past of the folks and locations that influenced Glassjaw, which the band put along with our mates at BrooklynVegan and Revolver. The guide is essentially set in 1993, the yr Glassjaw shaped. It options archival images of iconic NYC scenes and locales from the Nineties, in addition to archival images of Glassjaw themselves and present images of Glassjaw artifacts, just like the doll from the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang cowl and the turntable from the Worship and Tribute cowl. The images 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 (Thoughts Over Matter), Julian Vasquez (Stillsuit), Don Fury, and extra.

The guide can be out there 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 Assortment, which pairs gold vinyl variants of every report with a gold hardcover version of the guide, and that’s restricted to 500.

You may preorder all editions of The Playable Assortment and the Glassjaw guide within the AP Store now. See some mock-ups beneath.

Glassjaw even have upcoming thirtieth 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 Harmony Music Corridor
12/29 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
12/30 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw