Various Press teamed up with Identify Taken for 2 unique pressings of Maintain On, every restricted to 250 copies. Head to the AP Store to seize yours.
Identify Taken are giving their 2004 emo/pop-punk traditional Maintain On a vinyl reissue for the second time ever. It’s popping out through Fiddler Data & Archives, the archival model of the label that initially launched the album, Fiddler Data. Produced by Saosin‘s Beau Burchell, Maintain On was Identify Taken’s first full-length following their 2003 break up EP with Bayside, and it helped solidify them as a key band of the mid-2000s emo growth.
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Together with the reissue, there’s additionally a brand new video for the music “Maintain On For Your Dearest Life,” which makes use of pictures that Fiddler Data founder Amy Fleisher Madden found whereas placing collectively her new emo photobook Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo. In accordance with a press launch, “The video, directed by Erik Rojas, makes use of the entire imagery shot by photographer RJ Shaughnessy from the album’s impactful art work, and it’s intercut with portraits of the band which have by no means been used publicly earlier than.” Test it out under.
Fiddler Data initially existed from 1996 to 2006 and helped launch the careers of Dashboard Confessional, New Discovered Glory, and extra. It exists in its present archival kind to assist hold a few of these traditional releases in print.
For extra on Amy Fleisher Madden, learn our interview along with her from final yr, surrounding the discharge of Negatives.
