{"id":4799,"date":"2019-04-09T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T17:52:48","slug":"emerald-vein-existence-land-of-the-living-lps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/emerald-vein-existence-land-of-the-living-lps\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Vein – Existence & Land of the Living LPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just spotted a photo of\u00a0one of these LPs come up in a recent memories post, as I picked up a copy of this based on the cover art alone during my last trip to Boston a year or so ago. Here we have both vinyl releases by Emerald Vein, aka the solo project of Boston-based musician Robert Young. Previous bands of Robert’s included alternative band Uzi and post-punk band A Scanner Darkly, whose 1988 LP\u00a0This Is the Way<\/em> serves as a solid\u00a0Sisters of Mercy-esque guitar record.<\/p>\n

As for Emerald Vein, Young took things in a more ethereal direction, mixing a few post-punk tracks in with neoclassical and dream pop influences. Kind of my sweet spot for when the air has a bit of a chill in it still. Both of these LPs are unique listens, calling the likes of In the Nursery, Into a Circle, Breathless, Mark Renner, Eden, Black Tape For a Blue Girl, and maybe even a little Gilmour-era Pink Floyd to mind here and there.\u00a0Land of the Living<\/em> has a track or two with some co-harmonies from Colleen Nichole Jacobucci, and has an overall more experimental touch but is still very much in the vein of the first LP. Terence Donahue, drummer of A Scanner Darkly, also performs on a handful of tracks across both releases. Donahue was also involved with IPR stalwarts Deception Bay.<\/p>\n

Here’s the details for both LPs. Note: will be taking better quality album photos shortly, please stand by!<\/p>\n

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Emerald Vein-\u00a0Existence<\/em> LP (1989)
\n1. Worship
\n2. Existence
\n3. Completely Nothing
\n4. The Messiah
\n5. Promise
\n6. Out Of My Head
\n7. Take Hold
\n8. In His World<\/p>\n

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Emerald Vein-\u00a0Land of the Living<\/em> LP (1991)
\n1. Land Of The Living
\n2. The Difference
\n3. The Living End
\n4. Memory Inside My Head
\n5. Breath
\n6. Father Of Lies
\n7. Light
\n8. My Maker
\n9. Bury This Void
\n10. Colors<\/p>\n

*download both here<\/a>*<\/p>\n

Robert has also made a digital download of his favorite cuts from both albums available here<\/a>, if you’d like to upgrade some of the tracks from vinyl rips to crystal clear digital copies. Definitely worth grabbing the link\u00a0above for the full discography, and even though Robert’s\u00a0Bandcampo is pay-what-you-want, I deeply encourage purchasing the tracks and supporting Young’s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just spotted a photo of\u00a0one of these LPs come up in a recent memories post, as I picked up a copy of this based on the cover art alone during my last trip to Boston a year or so ago. Here we have both vinyl releases by Emerald Vein, aka the solo project of Boston-based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,163,34,158,13,916,374,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-163","category-1990s","category-158","category-dreampop","category-emerald-vein","category-ethereal","category-post-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}