The Front Bottoms: Ann (EP, 180g, side B etching) [BAR NONE]

Why you'll love it

A 180g one-sided pressing with an etching on side B. Ann gathers six songs from the New Jersey band's early days, including "Somebody Else" and "Lonely Eyes", and Erik Kase Romero worked on its production.

This edition

• 180g vinyl
• Six songs on side A
• Etched side B

About the album

The Front Bottoms started in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, in 2007, when Brian Sella finished his first year of college and started playing with his childhood friend Mat Uychich. Their songs have been called indie rock, folk punk and Midwest emo-adjacent; Sella himself calls them acoustic pop, which tells you he isn't overthinking the labels.

Ann, first out in 2018, gathers six songs from their back pages, and it's a lovely snapshot of what they do best: wordy, funny, confessional songs with a big singalong around the corner. "Today Is Not Real" opens it, "Somebody Else" and "Lonely Eyes" are the ones you'll be humming, and "Tie Dye Dragon" wraps it up. Side B is an etching, which saves you the bother of flipping it and gives you something to admire while you put side A on again.

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Out July 24, 2026 on Bar/None (cat# BRN324), a reissue of the 2018 EP.