{"product_id":"bundle-of-hiss-audio-design-sessions-1987-1988-lp","title":"BUNDLE OF HISS - Audio Design Sessions: 1987-1988 LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eHighly recommended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween 1987 and 1988, when Seattle was still a circuit of small clubs, four-track tapes and bands sharing drummers, Jack Endino went in to record one of the most solid – and most unfairly invisible – outfits of that scene: BUNDLE OF HISS.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose sessions fell into limbo, stored in the basement of Dan Peters (who would soon go on to MUDHONEY) and for years they were a kind of pre-grunge legend: everyone knew they existed, but there was no record, until Loveless Records from NYC released it on CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Bang! Records LP is, finally, that record. It gathers the core of those 1987–1988 recordings done by Endino: the moment when the band is tighter, darker and closer to what the press would later call the “Seattle sound”: minor-key melodies, thick fuzz, vocals on the edge, and that mix of hard rock, punk and Sabbath-like heaviness we’d later hear in Mudhoney, TAD or early Soundgarden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it’s not just us saying it. Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) said it when talking about the bands that never made it to the racks: “Among the bands that made up the Seattle grunge scene of the late ’80s, a few never released material at the time… Until now, one of the most prominent missing from the shelves was Bundle of Hiss. I’m waiting for my copy because my 12-year-old cassette is wearing thin.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReleased on vinyl for the first time, just as it should have come out in the late ’80s: a basement document turned into a collectible artifact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor those who want real grunge, not the domesticated version. Here is Bundle of Hiss exactly as Jack Endino captured them in 1987–1988.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MICzWyrMFvY?si=uC4DCC76lGlUfNuD\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Bang!","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44199896449066,"sku":"BUNDLE OF HISS - Audio Design Sessions: 1987-1988 LP","price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1273\/6111\/files\/bundleofhiss-audiodesignsessions.jpg?v=1774522701","url":"https:\/\/www.strangeworldrecords.com.au\/products\/bundle-of-hiss-audio-design-sessions-1987-1988-lp","provider":"Strangeworld Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}