Friday, June 18, 2010

I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook (200?-2010)


I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Yearbook was a screamo band from Antioch California. There was a "discography" LP released by Discos Huelga in 2010 but they were active much earlier. I put "discography" in quotations because when I think "discography," I think of a complete discography, and a complete discography this is not. The band released an 8-song demo sometime in the 2000's with completely different material, only some of which was later reworked into songs on the LP. Personally disappointing to me is the absence of the last track on the 8-song demo on the LP, in it's place a never before heard, lo-fi digital recording of a totally different track. Exacerbating the confusion is the track order: all of IWHACIYY's songs were untitled, referred to by their order on a given album (i.e. untitled 1, untitled 2, etc.) so "untitled #" on the 8-song demo could be completely different from "untitled #" on the LP.

This download is sort of a more complete discography. It includes a tape rip of the LP and the 8-song demo in the same form as I acquired it, from some random blogspot however man years ago. I also included two mp3s I received in an email that appear to be better rips of tracks from the LP, though who knows. This was the era when MySpace was still relevant: shit got lost and misnamed all the time. In a way, it was sort of more mysterious and wonderful that way. I won't go back to ripping low bitrate mp3s with old and probably illegal websites from equally outdated embedded players or anything like that, just sayin'.