Fiddler Records, the label formed in 1996 by Amy Fleisher Madden that helped launch the careers of Dashboard Confessional, New Found Glory, and more, shuttered its doors in 2006, but it lives on as Fiddler Records & Archives, an archival version of the label that’s keeping some of those classic Fiddler releases in print. Today, they’ve announced a 20th anniversary reissue of California emo/pop punk band Name Taken‘s 2004 album, Hold On. Following some self-releases and a split with Bayside in 2003, Hold On was produced by Saosin‘s Beau Burchell and it helped immerse Name Taken in the then-ongoing mainstream emo boom. (Its song “Panic” is also where the band Panic! at the Disco got their name.)
The album, which AbsolutePunk once called a “musical masterpiece,” now returns to vinyl for its second time ever with two new pressings, one on gold metallic swirl vinyl and one on coke bottle clear with black swirl, both limited to 250. You can pre-order both now in the new Fiddler Records section of the BrooklynVegan shop, where there’s also a Hold On test pressing, a Name Taken hoodie, and merch from Chris Carrabba’s old band Vacant Andys, and more.
Along with the reissue, there’s also a new video for the song “Hold On For Your Dearest Life,” which uses photographs that Amy Fleisher Madden discovered while putting together her new emo photobook Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo. According to a press release, “The video, directed by Erik Rojas, uses all of the imagery shot by photographer RJ Shaughnessy from the album’s impactful artwork, and it is intercut with portraits of the band that have never been used publicly before.”
Check out the video below and pre-order the reissue here.