No Year - So Long LP -on red and white vinyl

NO YEAR, a Portland quartet comprised of veterans of the city’s underground music scene are poised to inflict gripping, visceral psychedelic post-hardcore on the listening public with the release of their first LP, “SO LONG”.  Named well before the shit-showery of 2020, the title has taken on all new meaning at the end of the longest year of our lives. Recorded at Portland’s Stop / Start and Haywire Studios in the fall of 2019, SO LONG winds through a labyrinth of 90s grunge dinosaurs, washed-out shoegazers, Amrep noise rockings and angular post-hardcore heavily indebted to the legacy of Gravity Records and a little ol’ band from SD. Calling it psychedelic might seem odd had you not heard the waves of feedback, delayed and heavily affected guitars and shifting song dynamics that turn the listener over and over like a giant rock tumbler, eventually smoothing the roughest edges. Dealing with loss, sadness, confusion and alienation, the album's emotional resonance will stick with rea