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ok so i don’t update this nearly as much as i should, but if that is something that bums you out feel free to check out our tumblr, it is full of randomness. the link for that is here: tsl tumblr 

that gets updated a lot more, also has a pretty detailed tsl discography page added, a photo of a cat, and a bunch of youtube videos i wish didn’t exist.

in other news we go to the west coast next month.

panic press. skeletons split. vague useless show news.and more.

so yeah we took a little time to updated this, but thats ok you all seem to like those social networking sites better, but its a new year so an update/recap is in order.

the big news is the Panic press of You Will Not Survive is finally out, you can order it from our store or direct from panic. there are still some copies of the deluxe set left with the bonus live  7″, so get on that. we have some copies of all 3 vinyl colors. some will be gone very soon. we will be trying to include new posters/stickers with every order.

everyone is asking when we will be touring, where etc. and just trust us we will have some big announcements in the coming weeks/months that should excite a lot of you.

we also are stoked on announcing we will be releasing a split 7″ with our good friends We Were Skeletons, that bad is amazing, if you are into that sort of thing you should like this split. Topshelf records will be releasing this one, preorder info will appear soonish. we will let you know.

i also updated the saddest landscape discography page on this site, as well as the record wants pages.

i have spent a fair amount of the weekend packing up all of the outstanding mail order, so everything will go out tomm, we of course thank you for you orders.

we also started a vinyl blog, just us and our friends dorking out on records, you can peep that here: the saddest landscape vinyl blog

other than that i am just trying to do that pirates press puzzle but my cat, tippler, keeps trying to steal all the pieces from me, i still love her, but damn cat!

 

you can’t dust for vomit

its been awhile, sorry about that, but it is time for a lot of updates, so find your travel buddy and strap yourselves in.

lets start with the pianos split:

it is finally out, if you ordered your copy direct from us it has already been mailed, most of you should have already gotten them. if you ordered from just say no! they will come, it just will take a little longer as we are still waiting on those shipments. it feels so good to finally have this done, after what felt like an eternity and it sounds/looks amazing. also please go support pianos on their tour to the fest this week, they will have copies and are simply one of the best live bands playing right now, so how can you lose right?

you will not survive.

has been out for awhile, and we would just like to thank everyone for the positive feedback we have been receiving, it has been  great.  all the preorders have now been mailed, sorry about any wait with those, it was just a lot to send out and there is only so many orders i can carry on the subway every morning, but rest assured the final orders were mailed this week, so very soon you should have them if you are still waiting.

we are still very stoked to be on panic, the panic press of the record should be out very soon, so keep those orders coming in, there are still some copies of the collectors box set left, but that will sell out so don’t sleep on it, that will be the most limited of saddest landscape releases and the only place to get the live 7″, the packaging on that looks pretty fucking killer as well. here is the cover:

mail order.

so we are finally caught up on that, but we are running very low on just about everything, here is a rundown of what is about to go out of print so order now if you want it: 1. the tsl vinyl discography with the bonus 7″ is just about gone, we now have 10 copies of standard weight black vinyl with the 7″, that is it. they are overrun 7″s so there will only be 10 that come with it, all the other ones from here on out will not have the 7″, so order now or it will be gone.  2. we also only have one copy left on blue vinyl, 3. and about 5 copies of the CD version, 4. 3 copies of the footmen split.  so please order that stuff, we will also be putting a new shirt design up over the weekend. thanks.

pastepunk:

we were also lucky enough to be able to take part in the pastepunk 12th anniversary comp, you can download it here we contribute our cover of dinosaur jr.’s “raisans” which features jason from on the might of princes on second guitar, and we think it slays. it is free so download often and pass it around.

 

in other news, anyone live in or near or is going to nashville?? i want someone to go to third man and pick something up for me, i will pay for it, send you some free records/shirts for your troubles etc. seriously please get in touch if you can help. tslhbogmerch@gmail.com

blew twelve and kissed the thirteenth finger

strap yourselves in this one is going to be epic.

starting with the big news. the saddest landscape is very proud to announce that we are now part of the panic records family. panic is a label that we have long admired, from the bands on down to smallest details that show they really care about every aspect of their label. and we could not be happier to be part of it.

this of course means new records, panic will be releasing “you will not survive” for us, and they already have some pretty sick packages going on, the money shot is a special collectors pack that has the 3 new color variants of the LP,  a poster, some stickers, and wait for it…. a brand new live 7″, the 7″ is strictly limited to 100 copies and will only available in these sets, and it will all be housed in a hand #d, silk screened package. i don’t expect these to last too long so order now, thanks. here is the link: order here

there are also other ordering options, as well as a new hooded sweatshirt and shirt designs etc. so please support them.

this also means that if you want to order the cover your heart pressing of the record you only have through this weekend to do so. we only have a handful left and then that is it. this will also be the only pressing with the gatefold cover and bonus CD, so again i assure you this is the end of those, if you want one you only have a couple days to order them. so do so now. then it will forever be the panic records press.

and while we are at it, those of you waiting for your preorders of the LP/CD, they all showed up yesterday, and are now being shipped out, i brought a fair amount of them to the post office today so they are coming, thanks for being patient.

still not enough??? we have some amazing record release shows coming up this weekend, we will be joined by our friends in my heart to joy / pianos become the teeth / we were skeletons / the new & very welcome to celebrate the release of our new record, we have shows in CT / NYC / NJ, all the details on the facebook, myspace etc. , but i promise they will be epic, come celebrate with us, extra points for fancy dress, i am talking ties/jackets, and party dresses! hope to see as many of you as possible this weekend.

this now brings us to the much delayed split w/ pianos become the teeth, this is finally almost done, for real this time, we have already approved the tests, the covers are here, the posters and button sets are also here, we are just waiting on the vinyl, which i am promised will be here within the next 2 weeks. so just hold steady a little longer. i will also be sending out all of the orders placed through the just say no store, so they are coming. i will say the deluxe preorder sets look amazing, we went all out on these.

so there you have it, so excited about all of this,

we thank you.

tsl.

wash it down with cherry coke.

a quick one.

our new LP/CD “you will not survive” will be here in about 10 days, so for once we will have preorders that will ship early. that said if you were waiting to order i really would do it soon, we are down to about the last 100 copies of it and are unsure when we will be able to do a repress. thanks for all of the support on this one.

also we are almost out of all our other records, all the saddest landscape vinyl/cds in the store i am down to about  5 copies of each item, most of them will then be out of print for good. same goes with a lot of the her breath stuff.   so now really is your last chance to get them.

we have a lot of exciting show news coming up, including  a pretty sick record release weekend planned. we will hopefully announce in the next few days.

in record nerd news. aaron now owns the denali “instinct” LP and i have the red house painters “down colorful hill” LP thank you.  in shitty record nerd news after a few years of searching it out i was finally able to track down karate’s masterpiece “unsolved” on double LP, and i was fucking giddy, and trust me i dont get that way often, well of course i am cursed and when i got home to listen to it found out i got record 2 twice, instead of both LPs, so yeah.  anyone want to help me out with that, id be excited. not as excited as if i got the white stripes inchophone, but still pretty jazzed.

pianos split update.

first we would really just like to thank everyone who has preordered this record, and thank you for your patience. being avid record collectors trust me when i tell you we understand how agonizing the wait can seem when you are awaiting a preorder, checking your mailbox every day only to get that little ping of saddness when there are no records there, lurking message boards for signs of other people recieving them etc…we get it.

when we first launched the preorders (and submitted the record to the plant) we were lead to believe that there was no reason we shouldn’t have the records in time for both bands june tours, so we felt it safe to post the preorders. and well obviously things did not go that smoothly. this record has turned out to be a very involved process, so the plant has had a lot of techinical details to work out to be sure that it will be done properly, and this has unfortuanately caused a few delays. being as there is both music and ecthings on both sides of the record, and it being an “odd-sized” record, there is quite a bit of work going into it. as everything has to be exact, but rest assured we are in constant contact with the plant and they are working on it. and we like to believe it won’t be much longer.

for now we simply must wait a little longer, thanks for understanding.

and finally this will in no way affect the preorders for our new LP, totally different situation, different plant etc., we are actually expecting this one to arrive even earlier than we had thought, you win some, you lose.

we are starting to run low on copies of the “you will not survive” vinyl, it is possible that it will sell out in preorders, the response has been aweosme, and we are humbled and thankful, but we do suggest if you were waiting to order you should probablly get on that.

she’s mixing cocktails with a plastic tipped cigar.

first we just want to thank everyone who has already ordered the new LP, the response has been incredible, we honestly can not wait to have these in your hands and share this record with you.

and while we are on the subject of the new LP, being as the limited version with the DVD sold out within the first 24 hours, and since then we have been getting a lot of emails asking about how to get one, and sadly we only have those original 50, so instead of more dvd’s here is what we are going to do:

everyone who preorders the new LP will be entered to win 1 of 3 saddest landscape test presses from older records we have put out, so 3 people will win, in addition to these we will also be including other goodies in random packages be it out of print records, tour editions, posters, etc. i think i even have an extra tsl demo CD i may toss in, so point is your odds of winning something are pretty high. so please help us out by ordering one, thanks

now onto the pianos split. i know people are getting impatient for this, trust me so are we. every day i shake my head in disappointment that this is not out yet, this one is coming we promise, it is all in the pressing plants hands, and has been for the past few months. we are doing everything we can, and just know that this will in no way affect the preorders for the new LP that is being done at a different plant, entirely different situation, this one will come out as promised, on time.

also you may notice a couple new things on this site, one is i updated the saddest landscape discography page with some newer records, and the other is a list of record wants we have, seriously look at that one, we are obsessed, and we are ok with that.

you will not survive.

we are launching the preorders for our new full length, today at 6pm eastern, first 50 orders get something special, (check at 6 and you will find out what, trust is we think you will want it), you will also get to hear the first track from the record then as well.

you are fucked, but i will help you.

welcome to what sure will be a very long update.

part one.

we survived, we made it home yesterday from a very awesome euro tour, we had a great time, saw a lot of old friends, made quite a bit of new ones, played some great shows, only got kind of fucked by one promoter, saw paris, aaron found true love with a man named rick, i remembered that all sorts of foreign money confuses me, and told 163 versions of “thats what she said” jokes,  there will be many more updates  than this but for now here are some photos as promised.

we went to the Eiffel tower.

also the berlin wall, and i had no idea what was left was painted.

took a ferry from denmark to germany, even though the guitar playing half of the band does not know how to swim.

went to a carnival in sweden. i love ferris wheels for some reason.

met some more kids with awesome tsl tattoos, this one has the lyrics to stars in jan, wrapped around his arm, fucking rules.

posed with the guards in prague.

i think that is enough photos for now.

also there is a bunch of left over tour merch i just put up in the store, head over there tslhbog.bigcartel.com if you want any of it, there is new shirts, tour covers, the connections comp, and our new tour 7″

and more exciting than all of this is….

we have a new guitarist, ladies and dudes, meet eric mauro, he fucking shreds, likes long walks in the swedish nights, reminding people that you can be sxe without  being a dick, making bold statements like futurama is better than the simpsons, and telling people they have awesome tshirts. and we are very excited to have him be part of all this.

also there are still delays on the pianos splits, so those waiting on your preorder, the wait will be a bit longer, all i can say is this is a very involved record that has had a few snags along the way, but trust me when i tell you it will be worth it.

up next the preorders will launch for the new lp. fucking yes.

mini tour update

now we are in berlin, monday night, not bad, still have a hard time with all of these german keyboards moving letters on me, but its all good,  thanks to will and team agathe for a great show last night, and awesome pancakes in the morning, today we are off to zurich, then vienna, more will come just wanted to say hello and thank everyone who has come out so far.