RX Bandits: ...And The Battle Begun (2LP, 20th anniversary deluxe edition, eco citrus vinyl, indie exclusive) [SARGENT HOUSE]

Why you'll love it

This 20th anniversary 2LP set, an indie exclusive limited to 1,010 copies, comes remastered on eco citrus vinyl in a gold foil gatefold jacket, with four live bonus tracks. It's the Seal Beach band's 2006 album, the one where their ska roots fully gave way to progressive, reggae-tinged rock.

This edition

• 20th anniversary deluxe edition
• Indie exclusive, limited to 1,010 copies
• 2LP set on eco citrus vinyl
• Remastered
• Gold foil gatefold jacket
• Four live bonus tracks on Side D

About the album

RX Bandits started out in mid-'90s Orange County as the Pharmaceutical Bandits, a ska band, and spent the next decade turning into something much harder to file. ...And the Battle Begun was their first album on singer Matt Embree's own Mash Down Babylon label, recorded with the rhythm section playing live in the room and the overdubs added after, and you can hear it in the way the songs breathe and shift gear.

"Only for the Night", "In Her Drawer" and "1980" went up on Myspace ahead of the album, and the band toured it across the US that summer. The new Side D adds live versions of "Apparition", "Consequential Apathy", "In Her Drawer" and "Only for the Night". The battle, twenty years on, appears to be going rather well.

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Out July 31, 2026 on Sargent House (cat# SH000-20), a reissue of the 2006 album.