Balance and Composure‘s classic sophomore album The Things We Think We’re Missing turns ten this year, and we have an exclusive new variant, pressed to half transparent yellow/half transparent red with blue splatter vinyl, and limited to 300 copies worldwide. Grab yours HERE while they last!
In our look back at the album, we wrote, “If Balance and Composure’s sophomore album The Things We Think We’re Missing doesn’t sound 10 years old, it might be because bands today are ripping off its mix of emo, post-hardcore and grunge left and right. (It also might be because of the immaculate sound of Will Yip’s production and Brad Wood’s mixing.) Things took everything that was great about Balance’s 2011 debut LP Separation and pushed even harder. The walls of guitars and hook-fueled choruses are bigger, the entire band is tighter, the details are more intricate, and the production is as shiny as Nick Steinhardt’s vivid, colorful artwork. (Nick’s busy 2013 also included designing the art for his own band Touché Amoré’s Is Survived By and Deafheaven’s Sunbather). Balance and Composure may have come from the DIY emo scene, but The Things We Think We’re Missing sounded like the kind of Big Rock Record that would’ve dominated radio and television a decade earlier, and that wasn’t the type of record you’d come by often in 2013–at least not one done this tastefully. They blurred the lines between post-grunge and post-hardcore in a way that managed to be both nostalgia-inducing and innovative, and this record became the new standard for so many bands looking to do a similar thing. B&C followed it with the artsier Light We Made, and broke up a few years after that (vocalist Jon Simmons now makes music as Creeks), leaving Things as the peak of B&C’s post-hardcore era, the culmination of everything they’d been working towards before venturing off into more experimental waters.”
Balance and Composure reunited earlier this year, sharing two new songs and playing some shows. See pictures from their NYC date at Knockdown Center below.
In related news, we also just launched an exclusive splatter variant of Deafheaven’s Sunbather for its 10th anniversary, and Deafheaven are playing the album on tour with Touché Amoré.
Stream The Things We Think We’re Missing below and pick up our new variant here.
