Dirtnap Records + Direct Hit + Decent Criminal + a comic book? That’s about a lock for the wantlist, right?!
Let’s start with the music. Both Direct Hit (Milwaukee, Fat Wreck Chords) and Decent Criminal (Santa Rosa, Diisd/Gunnar Records) contribute unreleased songs / alternate takes of existing songs. Three songs in total, all good, with Time by Decent Criminal the closest to that Dirtnap sound we all love.
Where it really gets interesting is in the comic book department of this release. Direct Hit singer/songwriter Nick Woods began working on a story about the future at some point in the pandemic lockdowns. What started as an impulse or necessity ultimately grew to something more when Woods shared his ideas with his buddies Dylan, Jenny and Direct Hit! collaborator and illustrator Walker Dubois. Together, they “pieced together the first half of BEACON from Woods’s notes, producing a science fiction comic about a person named Doro, and their robot caretaker Partner, as civilization is reborn from apocalypse.”
Sounds cool, looks cool, a lock for the wantlist indeed! Get the 7″single and the first installment of the BEACON comic at Dirtnap Records.
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