The Pack A.D. and Mint Records have teamed up once again to awaken the dormant beast that is Unpersons. Originally released on September 13, 2011, Mint Records is releasing a 10th anniversary edition of Unpersons on “haunted” glow-in-the-dark vinyl with a foil cover. This limited 10th anniversary reissue celebrates an album that established The Pack A.D. as a band by which to compare others. Shredding and pounding their way through every song, The Pack A.D. swallows the listener whole inside their own fearless Franken-blend of heavy psych pop / garage-rock. Unpersons was recorded at the legendary Hive Studios with engineer Jesse Gander and famed Detroit producer (The White Stripes, The Detroit Cobras, Electric 6) Jim Diamond, who insisted on flying in to produce the record firsthand. After the sessions, the band went back to Michigan to perfect the mix together. The result was a flawless record that took all the snarl, piss, vinegar, venom and vitriol heard on the band’s first three albums into a realm distinctly their own. Any prior reference to other rock duos like The Kills or White Stripes became no longer relevant after this. Ten years later, singles from Unpersons are still some of the band’s most recognizable and beloved, including fan favourites “Sirens” and “Haunt You”. Long live The Pack A.D.!
LP $19.00
02/18/2022
In 1962, Neil Sedaka said, “Breaking up is hard to do.” Well, breaking up just got a whole lot easier thanks to Unpersons, the fourth album in The Pack A.D.’s indomitable catalog. This is the album to vaporize those who shall not be named; it will erase any trace of their existence with a dense cloud of fuzzbomb riffs, tribal rhythms and hard (legal) drugs. Braving a bombardment of devils, ghosts, mutants and arseholes, drum demolisher Maya Miller and belligerent guitarist / vocalist Becky Black have never shown so much determination and prowess. The Vancouver duo’s confidence in the studio and skill as musicians have grown exponentially between records, culminating with an epically fierce explosion of blues, punk and garage rock that dwarfs all that came before it. Neither mythological beast nor unrepentant dipstick stands a chance of surviving Unpersons’ aural onslaught. Like their last two albums, The Pack A.D. recorded Unpersons at the legendary Hive Studios with engineer Jesse Gander. However, where famed Detroit producer Jim Diamond (The White Stripes, The Detroit Cobras, Electric 6) mastered 2010’s We Kill Computers from afar, he flew in—on his own insistence—to produce Unpersons firsthand. After these sessions, the band went back with him to Michigan to perfect the mixing together. The result is a flawless record that takes all the snarl, piss, vinegar, venom and vitriol heard on their first three albums into a realm that is distinctly their own. Any reference to The Kills or White Stripes is no longer relevant....
LP $17.50
09/20/2011
CD $13.00
09/20/2011
MP3 $9.90
09/20/2011
***THE PACK A.D. could be anti-social outcasts who have trust issues or they could just be honest to a fault. When we live in a world of social networking where people offer up mundane details masked as intimacy to "friends" and "acquaintances" alike, where everyone looks like everyone and everyone can do everything... what's left? Following through on 2008's devastating one-two punch (January's Tintype and August's Funeral Mixtape), we kill computers is The Pack a.d.'s third album and it marks a bold departure away from the blues and headfirst into straight up garage rock/pop/punk. Recorded live off the floor to analog tape at Hive Studios in Vancouver by JESSE GANDER (Japandroids, Bison b.c.) and then mastered at GhettoRecorders in Detroit by JIM DIAMOND (Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras), We Kill Computers is a rapid fire assault of 13 heavy, heavy songs. When The Pack a.d. plays a show they hand the audience their guts. That's why We Kill Computers, a full year in the making, captures that same live energy—fierce, unapologetic, and loud as hell. Lyrically, The Pack a.d. offers up their general mistrust of humans and their motives, while tipping off that animals have got it right. Sonically charged and relentless, The Pack a.d. don't play a song so much as attack it—and we kill computers is them coming at you at a run. LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl and includes a download.
LP $17.50
09/20/2011
CD $13.00
09/20/2011
MP3 $9.90
09/20/2011