For Against - Shelf Life

Saint Marie
(SMR133-1: 708527180518/SMR133-2: 708527180570)
Release date: 11/23/1018
Genre: Post Punk

$18.00

Limited edition vinyl and CD reissue. Remastered with updated artwork.

Also available: Aperture and Mason’s California Lunchroom.

It was surprising-gratifying last decade, when Lincoln, Nebraska stalwarts For Against finally garnered the cult popularity they’d long deserved—at least in Europe, where generous, rapturous crowds hailed them as “darkwave” pioneers. Back home, though, it took this era’s shoegaze explosion/revival to bring them equal underground acclaim, accelerated by Captured Tracks’ 2014 Box Set, compiling their two LPs and EP, 1987-1989. It even received a 7.8 in Pitchfork, suggesting, “If they had gained a tenth of the attention Interpol attracted, it would have been a wonderful world!”

That richly deserved, delayed recognition is bound to heighten with these reissues of their three ’90s records.

1. Shadow

2. Wintersong

3. Starblind

4. Lost

5. Profile

6. Lilacs

7. Harbor

8. Forever

9. Times Square Go-Go Boy

10. Seascape