Tigers Jaw & Balance And Composure: Split (EP) [RUN FOR COVER]

Why you'll love it

Run For Cover has repressed the 2010 split on 12" vinyl, four songs from each band. It caught Tigers Jaw and Balance and Composure on the way up, a year before Balance and Composure's debut album Separation.

This edition

• 12" EP, Run For Cover Records repress (cat# RFC017)
• Side A: Balance and Composure; Side B: Tigers Jaw
• Eight tracks, four per band

About the EP

Tigers Jaw came out of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 2005; Balance and Composure formed an hour or two down the road in Doylestown a couple of years later. By 2010 both bands were part of the scene that would get called emo's fourth wave, the one built on basement shows, shared vans and records like this one, where two bands split a slab of vinyl and split the bill. Pitchfork once described Tigers Jaw as having "the jangle of old indie rock" with the community-minded concerns of the bands who look up to them, and their side here is a fine example: four short, warm songs from the band's early lineup.

Balance and Composure take Side A and play it heavier, the fuzz-loaded sound that later got them called pioneers of soft grunge and cited as an influence by Title Fight, Turnover and Movements. A year later they put out Separation and the shows got bigger. This is the record from just before that, when you could still see both bands in a room that smelled faintly of somebody's furnace.

Tracklist

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On Run For Cover Records (cat# RFC017), a reissue of the 2010 split.