NUZZLE - Follow, For Now LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition of 250 copies on opaque white vinyl.

By the mid ‘90s Nuzzle had already released several EPs and become staples in a loosely knit but deeply felt west coast scene anchored by Kill Rock Stars Records in Olympia (they performed at the first Yoyo A Go Go fest) and Gravity Records in San Diego. The quartet of Nate Dalton (guitar), Simon Fabela (bass), Ricardo Reano (drums), and Andrew Dalton (vocals) started in Rosemead, CA and played venues like Jabberjaw and Macondo, eventually settling in Santa Cruz.

The buzz Nuzzle generated from their frantic live shows helped them find their way onto bills with bands like Evergreen, Unwound, Lync, Bikini Kill, Modest Mouse, The VSS, Clikatat Ikatowi, and more. Nuzzle appeared on the Minutemen tribute compilation Our Band Could Be Your Life, as well as the first KXLU Live CD compilation.

In 1995 they released their debut LP, Follow, For Now, on Drew Gilbert’s Youth Strike Chord label. Recorded in a sweaty flurry at a vital moment in the ‘90s post-hardcore scene, Follow, For Now is raw, loose, and fierce. Less than 1,000 copies were originally pressed and hard to track down with their screenprinted plastic outer sleeves. Songs like “The Sorting That Evens Things Out” and “Newfoundland,” became the band’s most lauded.

Most of the band’s early work was remastered for the Junk of Myth CD in 2000 by Zum and Sound on Sound, but this is a new take digitized from the original reels.

Remixed and remastered for its 30th Anniversary Follow, For Now returns to vinyl with renewed clarity; capturing the band at their creative peak. Straddling the line between hardcore and the evolving mid-’90s underground sound, its eight tracks helped define a genre and cement Nuzzle’s place within the era.

New artwork and a printed inner sleeve design by Sonny Kay.

FFO: Unwound, Lync, Modest Mouse